refinishing beat up WASR (updated with finished photos)

[Mathetes]

I recently acquired a beat up WASR. I decided to refinish the furniture and dura coat the rest.

BEFORE DURACOAT

GETTING READY TO SPRAY

BEFORE AFTER 1 COAT TUNG

AFTER DURACOAT

In a day or two, I'll post the assembled WASR.

FINISHED AND ASSEMBLED

CLOSE UP OF FURNITURE

 

[Dirtypacman]

Very nicely done.

 

[Kid Presentable]

that looks great...what was the process you did with the tung oil?

 

[blindndead]

sexy pictures

 

[ARowley]

sure is pretty

 

[Mathetes]

Tung oil process:

After stripping and sanding with medium/fine grit used 100% tung oil (not other mixed stuff). 5 applications between drying with 0000 steel wool buff in between each application.

 

[beaker]

Looks great, nice work! The Duacoat looks great and the tung oil looks so much better than the previous finish.

 

[atilla]

nice work!

 

[pernox]

Good work!

I love tung oil - whenever there's a blemish that you want to fix, you can just whack it with some #0000 and apply a few more coats, and you're good to go.

 

[01SVTvert]

When you duracoated what was your prep on the parts?

Debating doing this to my wasr but curious about the amount of prep (blast? park?) beforehand.

 

[Mathetes]

It was parkerized so no prep was needed except to degrease. They provide a spray on degreaser that doesn't leave a residue. I did rough up the plastic trigger a bit.