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I rubbed it down with some '0000' steel wool
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I would recommend not using steel wool on a your stock without quickly applying a finish.
I did that once and found that very small strands of the steel wool had embedded into the stock. They were so small that they were not visible to the naked eye. I finished smoothing the stock with the steel wool and let the stock sit in my garage over a weekend, unprotected by a finish or oil.
Turns out that these tiny strands of steel wool that were embedded into the stock ended up rusting very quickly...creating very small rust spots all over the stock.
My stock looked like it had the chicken pox! I spent another whole day using Emory paper to sand the rust spots out which had penetrated deeper than I could have imagined.