Has anyone selectively added color to a stock.

Thinking

color filler
pen
burning

I have used alkenet( sp?) root to add a little red, but am usually happy with what the oil gives me as is.

I've had stocks that had some objectionable light sapwood streaks in them. I used some of the touch up pens to selectively color the streaks to bring them close to the darker wood. The pens have an alcohol soluble lacquer in them. I lay the color down darker in successive coats, allowing a few minutes drying between coats. Then I dampen a paper towel with 91% isopropyl alcohol and gently buff the stained areas until I get a close match.

I've tried to paint stocks with color; never works; always looks wrong, to me, at least when I did it on sapwood. Either stain the whole thing, or none of it.

I've seen a couple that were hydro dipped in a woodgrain pattern, actually looked pretty good.

I use Alkanet root or Watco oil mahogany stain. Watco is a tad darker and I like that, one coat after final sanding then rotten stone and finish with an oil modified Urethane

one coat tinted velvit oil. then one velvit oil straight. this was 15 hrs from stripper to reshaping to finish.

Not to rain on your parade..One needs to begin at the start..Or..start at the beginning.

The wood is not even suitable as a gun stock...even an ugly gunstock.


Grain layout through grip and fore end would consign this piece of wood to the fireplace.

The wood/stock was free and if nothing else a learning experience.

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Originally posted by Duane Wiebe (CG&R):
Not to rain on your parade..One needs to begin at the start..Or..start at the beginning.

The wood is not even suitable as a gun stock...even an ugly gunstock.


Grain layout through grip and fore end would consign this piece of wood to the fireplace.

Not trying to hijack the thread but just trying to learn. What about the grain tells you it is not suitable for a stock? I can see where the downward grain in fore end could be an issue. The straight grain in the wrist as opposed to an upward flow there?