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Originally Posted by Dean2
Stripper is a far better idea than sanding. Sanding finish of will quite often result in a lot of wood being removed leaving the wood to metal joints, butt plate, checkering etc no longer a perfectly flat match. You can see this on a lot of used guns where the wood now meets the metal with the metal sitting proud at the joint. There is zero advantage to sanding over chemical stripping and many negatives.
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You didn't look at my pictures obviously. You should. Make note of the checkering. I will admit, I didn't sand the checkering itself, just carefully sanded around it.
It's worth noting I took my time as I didn't want to take too much wood off.......just the old varnish. I did it all by hand (no power tools) and everything fit back together perfectly and it looks great.