PatMarlin
12-08-2008, 02:39 PM
For those of you who don't know- our own cast boolit brother "Ben", is an expert in stock finishing, refinishing, repair, inletting and bedding for all types of rifles.
His finish and fitting is amongst the very best you will find in the business, and he works right in his own home shop.
I recently purchased a first year model 1950 Marlin 336 in 35 Remington, that was near perfect with less than a few boxes of rounds fired, unaltered, all original about 98% overall... :Fire:
When the rifle arrived to my surprise, then horror and shock, I found the owner had thought he was improving the rifle by coating the original stock finish with several coats of tru-oil- most likely with a brush. The Marlin "Bullseye" was missing also.
After a few hours, I couldn't bear to look at the mess any further... disassembled the rifle and removed the finish. While doing so a piece of the front end of the forearm broke off in my hand. Luckily it was with the grain on the inside. I started to run out in the shop and grab some wood glue and I thought... " what in the heck are you doing Pat? This is a valued Marlin, and you are going to attempt to fix this break, and finish it with what ever was laying around. Are you out of your mind?" ..:mrgreen:
After stripping the stains didn't match even. I quickly came to my senses and emailed Ben for HELP!
I boxed up the whole set and sent it to him, and upon arrival he started working on it right away.
One of the screw holes was loose on the butt plate, so Ben fixed that and repaired the broken forearm with acra-glas as a competent pro would, and not a back yard hack like where I was headed...
His finish and fitting is amongst the very best you will find in the business, and he works right in his own home shop.
I recently purchased a first year model 1950 Marlin 336 in 35 Remington, that was near perfect with less than a few boxes of rounds fired, unaltered, all original about 98% overall... :Fire:
When the rifle arrived to my surprise, then horror and shock, I found the owner had thought he was improving the rifle by coating the original stock finish with several coats of tru-oil- most likely with a brush. The Marlin "Bullseye" was missing also.
After a few hours, I couldn't bear to look at the mess any further... disassembled the rifle and removed the finish. While doing so a piece of the front end of the forearm broke off in my hand. Luckily it was with the grain on the inside. I started to run out in the shop and grab some wood glue and I thought... " what in the heck are you doing Pat? This is a valued Marlin, and you are going to attempt to fix this break, and finish it with what ever was laying around. Are you out of your mind?" ..:mrgreen:
After stripping the stains didn't match even. I quickly came to my senses and emailed Ben for HELP!
I boxed up the whole set and sent it to him, and upon arrival he started working on it right away.
One of the screw holes was loose on the butt plate, so Ben fixed that and repaired the broken forearm with acra-glas as a competent pro would, and not a back yard hack like where I was headed...