UticaRifleman
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Does anyone have experience torching a stock before refinishing? I have heard of people that give cheap birch stock character by burning in tiger strips. Thoughts or experience?
Burning/torch a stock before refinishing
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Bill DeShivs
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It can be done, but it will always look like a cheap stock that has been burned.
Martyn4802
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Exactly.
I would use a Walnut stain to get a good uniform color, and the apply True Oil to finish that stock. I did this to a similar stock and it looks far better than I had hoped it would when I started.
Martyn
I would use a Walnut stain to get a good uniform color, and the apply True Oil to finish that stock. I did this to a similar stock and it looks far better than I had hoped it would when I started.
Martyn
I have faked that look on wood that wasn't a gunstock. I was shown how to do it by an old architecture professor. We used a steel rod heated up cherry red. Never let the steel touch the wood or it will char it. Get a bunch of 2 X4's to practice with.
Google it. You'll find several woodworking sites with info.
Google it. You'll find several woodworking sites with info.
fisherman66
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I have heard of de-whiskering with a torch. On the two stocks I refinished I used very fine sandpaper after the wet stock dried to de-whisker. As far as using a torch to add color I can't imagine how that it would be an improvement. I might not be very imaginative though.
Harry Bonar
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Sir:
Hal Hartly used to do this with a blowtorch and a steel plate to maple. But, your wood must first have the grain in it to use this method. As is pointed out it will look fake if it's done on plain grained wood.
The old muzzsle loader builders sometimes would do this with a small pourous rope soaked with nitric acid on maple but it didn't look too great either.
The way I do curley maple is to whisker it ( when you're finishing sanding on walnut you've just started on maple) and then coat it with a 1 in 10 mix of nitric acod and heat it - it'll turn pink! Then use potassium permanganate on it till it turns black! Then, take fine steel wool soaked in linseed oil (real linseed) and work it till a beautiful brown color comes through - the stripes will show then! It's beautiful - looks better than a good looking young lady!
I don't know if i'm spelling it right but Mr. Hartley called it surgying! His work was wonderous!
Harry B.
Sir:
Hal Hartly used to do this with a blowtorch and a steel plate to maple. But, your wood must first have the grain in it to use this method. As is pointed out it will look fake if it's done on plain grained wood.
The old muzzsle loader builders sometimes would do this with a small pourous rope soaked with nitric acid on maple but it didn't look too great either.
The way I do curley maple is to whisker it ( when you're finishing sanding on walnut you've just started on maple) and then coat it with a 1 in 10 mix of nitric acod and heat it - it'll turn pink! Then use potassium permanganate on it till it turns black! Then, take fine steel wool soaked in linseed oil (real linseed) and work it till a beautiful brown color comes through - the stripes will show then! It's beautiful - looks better than a good looking young lady!
I don't know if i'm spelling it right but Mr. Hartley called it surgying! His work was wonderous!
Harry B.
Mach II Sailor
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Harry,
you described it perfectly
when i once custom made Flintlocks, i used a very similar method, i consider one of my best was a Hawken (re-pro) full length flintlock with CM-5+ maple wood, got $2,500.00 for it back in 1976ad
BTW you are 1 1/2 years senior to me, us ol timers aren't totally washed up are we ? i am originally from Navarre, Ohio
you described it perfectly
when i once custom made Flintlocks, i used a very similar method, i consider one of my best was a Hawken (re-pro) full length flintlock with CM-5+ maple wood, got $2,500.00 for it back in 1976ad
BTW you are 1 1/2 years senior to me
, us ol timers aren't totally washed up are we ? i am originally from Navarre, OhioHarry Bonar
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A-hoy! MacII Sailor
Sir:
Hey, Guy - didn't know you were once (maybe still are) a charcoal burner.
Harry B.
Sir:
Hey, Guy - didn't know you were once (maybe still are) a charcoal burner.
Harry B.
Joe Rollings
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One old timey way to do that job is to wrap tar-soaked twine around the stock and burn it off. Never did it myself. Only read about it, so start with something worthless...Joe