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Tom Doniphon · Last edited by Tom Doniphon on Sun Aug 24, 2008 5:27 pm; edited 1 time in total

I have seen many people say that the original Yugo wood is Teak. I have refinished many wood stocks before but Yugos are a little different. The wood was so covered in cosmoline that I cannot tell what finish was on the wood originally. Teak oil?

DrPepper · Joined: 21 Aug 2008 Posts: 22

I just use Teak oil.

Tom Doniphon · Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 8:07 pm Post subject:

Do you have a picture of the results?

Tom Doniphon · Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 6:30 pm Post subject:

Well I used some teak oil and it looks fine. Teak oil does have a fairly strong scent for a few days.

tomovich · Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 8:36 pm Post subject:

I have used tung oil on the NICE Yugo specimens I've done. They're usually new but greasy (cosmo?). I degrease with brake cleaner and let dry well. Then apply Formby's low gloss tung oil, let dry, rub with oooo sw and the repeat. Usually three times gets excellent looking "sealed" results.

jasonb · Joined: 22 Dec 2008 Posts: 6 Location: Ohio

I did these with BLO and a custom stain I mixed up.

I like original style finishes.

AKE · Joined: 29 Sep 2003 Posts: 29 Location: DELMARVA

The wood is their native beech......use tung oil three applications...then two applications of Lemon Oil.....Lemon oil from their on once a year.

Your good to go.....the teak bs was started for marketing from Mitchell Arms, nothing more.

good luck.

AGG · Joined: 30 May 2007 Posts: 1226

AKE,

PM'ed you!!! Very Happy

Tony

CelticSword · Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 3:29 am Post subject:

There is a rather long discussion about it at AK Files
http://akfiles.com/forums/showthread.php?t=33532

I'm not a purist with my other AKs. So, I scrub the wood under hot water, then use a 50/50 bleach mix, then a 20/80 vinegar to water bath. Let dry. Then sand. I then apply Helmsman Spar Urethane in several coats with sanding in between.

Here are my results for some AMD-65 grips. You can see the before and after.

I have some handguards I need to redo for my Yugo M70, maybe I will try the purist approach. But using the urethane keeps all the hand oils and dirt off of the grips

Tom Doniphon · Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 8:57 pm Post subject:

Easy off oven cleaner works well to clean the Yugo stocks. I think they may use teak oil but you have to let you gun sit for a month for the smell to go away or shoot with an RTG surplus gas mask. The one I did with teak oil does look like the original finish.

AKE · Joined: 29 Sep 2003 Posts: 29 Location: DELMARVA

On older stocks what works well is to steam the wood with a hot terry cloth towel and use an iron on "steam and hot" and run the iron right over the stock...let the stock stand for three days to dry out and then you can sand it with XXX steel wool.....then use the Lemon oil freely and they look just like new.....hope this helps.