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Big Game Hunting => Muzzleloader Hunting => Topic started by: MountainDevil54 on April 03, 2014, 03:33:46 PM

Title: "New" TC Hawken
Post by: MountainDevil54 on April 03, 2014, 03:33:46 PM: 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.

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Title: Re: "New" TC Hawken
Post by: CAMPMEAT on April 03, 2014, 04:05:31 PM: Very well dome...............
Title: Re: "New" TC Hawken
Post by: wadu1 on April 03, 2014, 04:35:16 PM: 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.
Title: Re: "New" TC Hawken
Post by: MountainDevil54 on April 03, 2014, 04:42:20 PM: 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.
Title: Re: "New" TC Hawken
Post by: Red leaf 67 on April 04, 2014, 07:53:34 AM: :tup: 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
Title: Re: "New" TC Hawken
Post by: Skillet on April 04, 2014, 08:05:16 AM: Quote from: wadu1 on April 03, 2014, 04:35:16 PM
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.
Title: Re: "New" TC Hawken
Post by: oneshot12 on April 04, 2014, 01:14:55 PM: 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
Title: Re: "New" TC Hawken
Post by: Heredoggydoggy on April 04, 2014, 01:25:20 PM: Quote from: wadu1 on April 03, 2014, 04:35:16 PM
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! :sry:
Title: Re: "New" TC Hawken
Post by: Wea300mag on April 05, 2014, 03:59:58 PM: That looks very nice, great work!!!
Title: Re: "New" TC Hawken
Post by: kerrdog on April 11, 2014, 06:59:41 AM: I have a coffee table I want you to look at. :chuckle:
Title: Re: "New" TC Hawken
Post by: Runamuck on April 11, 2014, 07:27:21 AM: GREAT job! :tup:
Title: Re: "New" TC Hawken
Post by: DaMitt Mystagin on April 13, 2014, 04:44:57 PM: 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?