"New" TC Hawken

[MountainDevil54]

MANY coats of low gloss tung oil, buffed every 3 coats with 0000 steel wool. Last night I rubbed it down with boiled linseed oil and let it dry over night, wiped it down with a rag and shes very good looking now. Its amazing what an oil finish does VS a spray on finish, this stock was originally a orange looking color.

.40cal HM TC Hawken

This I did for a friend of mine, hope he likes it.

[CAMPMEAT]

Very well dome...............

[wadu1]

Very nice, I love the color. I see it is an early one, the little screw below the nipple tells me that. The only thing I would do is replace the wedge pin with a brass one to make it look like new.

[MountainDevil54]

thanks gents!

Just so you know, there is NO stain on the wood, just an oil finish, the oil brings out the true color of walnut.

[Red leaf 67]

  Awesome job!!! I like .40's  they have their place, & for fun shooting the lead & powder go a lot farther! Most of my guns could use some TLC, really like the Tung oiled stocks. Bravo!    Red Leaf

[Skillet]

Very nice, I love the color. I see it is an early one, the little screw below the nipple tells me that. The only thing I would do is replace the wedge pin with a brass one to make it look like new.

Actually, that's a much newer Green Mountain barrel.  I have the .50 cal LRH version for my Hawken.

Great job on the stock.  Looks fantastic.

[oneshot12]

real nice job on the stock   you nailed it sure dose bring out the color  in the wood   they should be real happy to show this  off

[Heredoggydoggy]

Very nice, I love the color. I see it is an early one, the little screw below the nipple tells me that. The only thing I would do is replace the wedge pin with a brass one to make it look like new.

No!  Hawkens never had any brass furniture--the fact that it has any brass on it, shows it's a reproduction.  The little screw below the nipple is a modern addition.  The Hawken I built back in the '70s doesn't have one, but my newly manufactured .54 Hawken did! 

[Wea300mag]

That looks very nice, great work!!!

[kerrdog]

I have a coffee table I want you to look at.

[Runamuck]

GREAT job! 

[DaMitt Mystagin]

Looks great, MD54!   I like the color and finish much better than the factory finish on my early '80 TC Renegade.

I plan to refinish my NW Trade Gun and you mentioned using tung oil, do you prefer that to true oil?