[targa911S]

I found old Marlin M25 in the shop the other day so I asked the guys if I could buy it. they said yeah $75.00. Sold. The action was great and it had an old school Weaver scope on it. The wood was beat.



I started playing with it and stripped the paint like finish off the cheapo birch stock. Then I was looking around my shop and I had a couple chunks of walnut laying around and the LOP was short so I added an inch or so onto the buttstock. Then I found this great piece of burl walnut and thought i could add a cool tip too. Now I had two hunks of walnut glued to either end. Today I ground and sanded the whole thing down to shape and cut the barrel groove.







Finished sanding and then wiped with alcohol then buffed with steel wool. Then a light maple oil stain.






Tomorrow more wool and maybe a second coat of stain. On this one I'm going to use poly instead of tung oil for durability.


More tomorrow.