How to clean/ restore wood stocks?
I have alot of old rifles and some of them have plain brown stocks. Barely any grains visible. You can see that the oil over the years has pénétrantes deep into the wood. Which is normal. Is there a way to clean it up a bit without damaging anything? No sanding or reshaping wanted or needed. I use my 1886 alot so I treated the wood with pine tar and turp. Looks nice but maybe it would look even better with abit of apparent grain. Im not even sure if the wood has nice grain, im just throwing out suggestions.
I'm pretty sure I saw a video of people soaking the stocks in acetone to remove oil but i dont want anything to damage the wood. It is close to 150 years old. I don't want to varnish the wood in any way. I hate the shiny look.