Use wood cleaning products. Works a lot better. Not hard to refinish either. Just sand it down like anything. Start a little coarse. You'll have to decide by stock condition. Are there heavy scratches, light scratches, or no scratches? Light or no scratches you can start with finer sand paper. If you have some dings or some scratches that too much material would have to be removed to flatten it. Just use a wet towel with a hot iron (has to be in bare wood, not sure if this works on finished). might not be able to remove everything. After it dries may need to repeat. Once done just get some varnish and poly. They can polish up almost like mirrors. If you have a nice stock you just want to refinish just sand with medium grit to light grit then varnish and poly. But I use Orange Glow to clean. There's a lot of other stuff. Some cheap some expensive. Use what works for you. You may decide to refinish, or keep patina. YouTube will have all types of videos you can research. Almost forgot. On the metal use dawn. Some parts can be soaked 5-10 min. If need be leave longer. Chemical grease removers good damage finish on metal. After clean oil the metal really well and leave it to soak a couple days. Then wipe it down. If you're storing it you may want oil heavier in rusty places. If you're using it, oil normal. But YouTube can make it clearer than I am.
