Thanks 9.3. Well it’s still creeping along here. Got the stock to the shape I want, then sanded to 320. I’m going for a pure tung oil finish, so pulled the cap and plate off and sloshed very thinned oil everywhere, repeated. Reinstalled the black bits then wet sanded 50:50 cut Tung oil, wiped the sludge in, let it dry for a month then same again for 400 then again 600. When dry sanded back with 600 dry, then 800 then 1000. Then started coating more tung oil - I’m on coat 9 doing a coat a day. Will do one more then let it cure for a month, then will polish back with some hessian I think.

Anyway, I’m pretty happy with it - the fore end in particular I feel has the shape of an original Type B. The wet sanding did a great job filling the pores and it looks nice to my eyes. It’s not the most striking timber for sure but quite in keeping with an original. I better not screw up the checkering!

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Edit - my pictures aren’t showing - what am I doing wrong?