restoration

Hey I'm a new user and I need some help/advice/knowledge. A few years back my father tried to restore his old model 94, 30-30, post 64 with a new stock, and let's just say he isn't mechanically inclined. It ended up not going back together correctly and in the end lost a few pins and a firing...

I just finished re-blueing my grandfather's old Mossberg 190 which had become nearly devoid of bluing with the exception of the choke and the sections covered by the stock. Now that it's re-blued, I'm going to start work on the stock which has some sort of varnish on it which is peeling badly...