Ca-ca refinish job

[Mr. Inbetween]

I reshaped my Romanian butthole stock so that it fits my hand. I stripped, sanded, and restained the wood.

The forearm is beautiful. The buttstock looks AWFUL! I've taken two runs at it and am about to throw up my hands. The "grain" in the plywood stock runs every which way! So do I
1) Keep it as is and blame the Communist work ethic.
2) strip it, paint it pink, and DARE anyone at the gun range to talk trash to the AK guy.
3) strip it and try for a linseed oil finish.
4) strip it and paint it camo
5) ????????

I'm open for suggestions.

[Side Folderx]

How about some of that camo duct tape at walmart!!!

[Mr. Inbetween]

LOL!
The duct tape might be an improvement!

[Tantal]

The layers of the wood are cross-laminated to make the stock stronger and warp-proof.

[gopher29]

Rip it off and put a pistol grip and buttstock on it...legally if you can afford a US parts kit, otherwise, do it anyways. And as far as the so-called lousy communist craftmanship goes...it was Klinton, not Norinco, that invented the Butthole stock.

gopher
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sometimes we must come full-circle to find the truth

[Mr. Inbetween]

Communist-Klinton same difference.

I know why plywood grain does what it does. I just don't know how to make it look good.

[jeffer]

I like the duct tape idea. Course where I come from we use it on cars and call it chrome.

[JA]

Get some engine krinkle paint from a hot rod shop. A friend and I did several rifles and shotguns in black. The stocks looked just like a Remington 700 PSS "sniper rifle" with the synthetic stock. The thickness of the first and second coat allows you to make it small fairly smooth wrinkles or large real ruff wrinkles. We tested 5-6" pieces of 2x4's to get the correct thickness of the two coats to produce the texture we were after. One rifle a russian .22 bolt action we taped the hand grip area's on the pistol grip and foreend off. After the stock dryed with a nice small wrinkle finish that looks like it was a synthetic one. The hand grips area's were sprayed after tapeing off the rest of the stock. A real heavy coat which made the look and feel like the strippled grips on those olympic target pistols. A couple coats of clear satin polyurathane to keep it from wearing the wrinkles down from use. Had that happen on the first rifle we did. Wa-la russian .22 with what looked and felt like a $300 synthetic stock for the price of $12 for a can of wrinkle paint and can of polyurathane. One can will do 2 or 3 rifles.

[Sooner]

Actually it was George Bush. Even so, if you
want to blame Klinton, sounds good to me.

[Packrat]

Sumo has a Drag-type stock that has been covered with the camo tape. It changes the look of the rifle, makes it look like you don't care for appearance but are concerned with function only. Might be the best thing to do with a plywood stock. I suspect that they just used poor quality wood, which you can do with plywood.

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Packrat

[dug556]

Replace it with a Choate stock,you won't be disapointed.

[austral34]

If it's made of plywood I dont believe that linsead oil will help. Painting it would probable be the best bet. Cammo would probably be prety cool if done properly. Maybe paint it with a brush and ad some sand for a no-slip grip?