[ithacaartist]

I haven't applied anything to it until I have some confidence the process will work, or is even feasible. I'm going to try some different stuff in addition to the Lime-Away, experimenting/testing on other pieces of rusty wood; so, stay tuned.

I doubt sanding would do me any good because the staining has soaked into the end-grain. As you can see in the pic, the stain is black, like boiled rust blue. The way the stock soaked it up would never allow you to hit bottom when sanding.

Too bad Kahr is not listing their '28 removable butt stocks as a separate item, but only on the complete carbine, which is available with a removable stock. I would have preferred one of these, anyway, because the furniture would match without doing anything.

I bought this one from a member of the machine gun forum. He had a pristine one, but I cheap-ed out and chose the second best because the color looked better. Maybe I should see if he and I can work something out, if he still has the good one.

Otherwise, as you suggest, I'd need to reproduce the stock. I've noticed that the '28 stock is shorter than the '27--which I already found uncomfortable due to its being "dimensionally challenged" and this would be a chance to avail myself of a super-long '28 style stock, as long as I'mcreating a Franken-Tommy.