Thanks for the tutorial! I have done that in the past to raise dents and it works really well. For the oil, I used a heat gun on low to medium to draw the oil out of the stock. It worked really well on a 1960s era Belgium-made Browning Sweet 16. It took a while because it was soaked to the gills with gun oil but it was worth it! The stock had become soft because of the oil and the buttstock bolts that screw into the receiver yoke had become enlarged. Once I got the oil out, I drilled the holes out slightly larger and I glued dowel pins into the holes. After that, I just redrilled the original holes, fit everything back together, and then took it back apart and refinished the stocks. It was beautiful. But...I can not shoot a shotgun to save my life! So I sold it for what I had in it. How dumb! It would be worth 4 times what I sold it for if I still had it.

I just restored 3 old guns back to back. I had a couple of stubborn realy deep dents I pulled out after dozens of steaming sessions along with scrubbing the dent with a nylon bristle brush. Before the brushing the dents were not quite a quarter inch deep. They would only raise up so far till I worked the dents with a nylon brush.

Love your teachings! You are a godsend for those who want to work on old and new guns.

This works great for taking dents out of pool cues, as well. Also, if you have one or two, very small dents in your stock instead of a steam iron. A pot with 1/2" of water and a lid with the knob removed, leaving a small hole for the steam to escape, just hold the dented area over the steam, closely, for a minute or so and check. Repeat until the dent is gone. Presto! For deeper dents like this, it can take a long time, letting the wood absorb the moisture. Go Airforce!

I have been steaming dents out of military stocks for 50+ years. I use a steam iron and a wet towel. You might to do it several times on deep dents, but the results are amazing. This method works with ease on Japanese wood stocks. Walnut can give great results, but can be slow based on the origin of the wood. Arctic birch takes a lot of time.

Thank you sir! Well done and very informative video.

Thank You! Can't wait to try this.

Very helpful and superbly presented great job 👍

I have done this in the past and it really works great. I would really like to see the finished rifle.Good video,your a pleasure to watch.Keep it up.

Great video - just what I was looking for! Thank you

Thank you sir for your interesting and informative video. I definitely will put this knowledge to good use!

Very informative and accurate thank you for posting!

Exactly what i was looking for

I find using a bead blaster with 180grit sand media removes the finish the fastest and actually helps smooth out the stock too. Then the dents can be steamed out much easier...

All though this is an older video i found it funny and informative, thank you

That was great thanks for the info and the laugh

love your vid. keep up the good work.

And happy trails to you!

Really enjoyed your video sir 👍🏻❤️🇬🇧

Great video , and nice Marbles display !

This is an awesome channel!!

Just bought an old 22mag for a little over 50 bucks. Decided to try stock refinishing on it, as I've never done that before and i figured I'd better try it on a 50 bucks gun than on a 500 bucks gun (I'm in Germany, guns are usually more expensive here, than in the us)

45 Alfa Charlie Papa, Gentleman, Thank you very much for your tutorial: I did learn - as you are doing.. Have a M1-Garand w/some dents, reached from an US-friend from Mil-Rod+Gun-Club, Heidelberg, 1972, as he has gon back to USA. Very interesting to see you do with the iron and dents. I guess will start very next time also with my hunting rifles, never used or cleaned as I gave up hunting since Dekades. Wish you - simply the *Best, with health and luck, God Bless America, Greetings from Germany.

I love your sense of humour. You make me laugh

Thank you good sir!

thank you for this tip .

Was smiling and laughing watching the video, then I saw the deleted scenes and subscribed. Great video.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR INFORMATIVE VIDEO.😯😁🤗👍

A lot of raising the dents has to do with the edges of the dent. If the fibers are cut it is much harder to raise them versus a smooth dent that will be easier to steam back out. You do not have to strip the stock to raise them, if you're careful. Thanks for the video.

Thank you so much I am a aspiring amateur gunsmithing with no money to go back to school.

Love the video too

You look like a good friend that I hunted with! Hood sense of humor too…😂

Old Gunsmith is always an insta-watch

An old WWII Marinetaught me a trick o lifting dents. He used a chicken bone, (drumstick,) and rubbed an rubbed til he rubbed out the dent. It works.

I'm getting ready to do this on a 1901 crescent sxs.

I accidentally put a huge dent in the stock of my brand new 10/22 while installing the sling studs. Hopefully I can make it look halfways decent again...

Steaming sometimes raises the wood of the indentation ABOVE the rest of the wood. After stripping maybe steam up the dents BEFORE sanding ? Or carefully sand both before and after ?

I remember being 5 or 6 trying to bend wood for a model boat with steam ,I never thought you could remove dents ,I thought it might be good for wood floors too.

I have always used a soldering iron.

I save a few steps and emerse the entire but stock in Aceatone overnight. It takes off the finish, tries the wood and starts the expansion of the dents. Just a thought. Thank God you minimized background music...

Great video - I just bought a '1997 Beretta 686 Silver Pigeon 1' and it has a 1.5cm scratch in the stock that I can unsee since I know its there - is there a way to fix/remove this scratch without having to sand down the stock and re-varnish/re-oil it please? thanks

You can remove ingrained oil from a stock by submerging it for approximately two weeks in a bath of acetone which will draw the oil out. Remove the finish before hand obviously and seal up the container to prevent evaporation.

great vidieo

Larry Potterfield, owner of MidwayUSA, removed oil from a stock he was refinishing by soaking it in a bucket of Acetone! Seemed to work very well but he had to let the stock dry out over a period of several days.

I have a questions a about a model 37 Winchester single shot 410 after removing the gun stock for the first ever cleaning. when installing the the gun stock when you break it open a couple of times the stock creeps up on the receiver. What can I do the stop the creeping up?

Nice

"I should've read the instructions" now that's relatable gunsmithing, nice job man.

Thanks for this video! I was looking for how to remove dents from vintage furniture since I dropped my phone on some walnut and cause a dent. Can you tell me if I did this steaming technique on a oil stain finish if it will remove the stain and will it even work if you aren't steaming against wood with a stain on top?

Does the finish have to be removed in order to use the steaming process? My finish is good, just a minor scratch.

How long to wait to be sure that the wood is all dry again? And why the stripper if you sand the stock anyways?

I love this guy, just the right combo of great information and locker room Manley humor!!

Ill tell you a good stripper. 80% deet bug spray. Ate the finish right off my 2 year old affinity 3 within a week of squirrel season this year

Soaking a stock in acetone works well for removing oil from the stock. Sgt. Pheteson, 366 TFW, 480th MMS Sq. Browning Ma Deuce, smithy.

Why am I just now finding this channel?

I have an original 1853 Enfield and using stripper would damage the authenticity. Any suggestions. It has A LOT of small dent.

At some point try boiling for 3 to 4 minutes at a time removes the oil and the dents although you need to let dry a week or two

I saw a gunsmith use powdered chalk to remove the oil from the finish on an M1 Garand. They did the steam dent removal also.

Would a clothes steamer work for this?

I'm doing a lee enfield 1895 303 stock and would it be bad to use a heat gun or a straight flame just holding it far enough to have the oil bubble out and wipe off?

If the finish is still good but there are a few dents, would it be fine to skip to the ironing?

Nice video, but perhaps a voice-over from Roy Rodgers might be beneficial.

You can soak the stock with acetone to get the oil out of the wood...

How do you feel about using Eastern Red Cedar for stocks?

This man knows his strippers

For the oil absorbing would just soak it in acetone overnight

I've found that oiling a stripper costs more.

LOL, dirty ole man

Oh yes it does work You can’t beat a good stripper lol 😂 just subscribed because your funny

can you get dents out of a finished stock with steam??? and not damage the finish - the steam will cloud the finish and require refinishing on a new gun stock with a few dents - this is not an acceptable repair .... any one know how to remove dents with out using steam and damaging the finish??

Gunstock dent remover

Eliminate the marital angst. Go to a thrift store and buy yourself an iron for your shop.

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Those dents looked like native American markings, not saying they are but just saying.

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I've seen cheap strippers-it wasn't pretty. 🙄