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when mixing brown pigment into acraglas to match wood stock finish do you make it as close to the stock color or does the glass cure darker or lighter than it appears before it sets?
 
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I have always mixed it to a close match.
 
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i mix with sanding dust, about 50% -- that makes it DARKER than stock, so i have a chunk of blonde walnut that i use to make dust


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thank you for the replies.
 
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So you dumb down the acrglas


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i mix with sanding dust, about 50% -- that makes it DARKER than stock, so i have a chunk of blonde walnut that i use to make dust
 
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Ok, mixing saw dust for filling cracks, etc, is fine, but for recoil management, mixing with saw dust does not enhance it's strength properties. IE, it makes it weak.
Does it matter? Probably not.
 
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When using the supplied pigment the cured acraglass will be the same shade as when mixed.
 
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I usually dye my Acraglass gel black.

If you get the brown too lightly colored it really shows up.
 
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coffee

MarineTex is already black when you open the can.

popcorn Just sayin.


When I was a kid. I had the stick. I had the rock. And I had the mud puddle. I am as adept with them today, as I was back then. Lets see today's kids say that about their IPods, IPads and XBoxes in 45 years!
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thanks everyone, i just want to fill a small crack around the inletting and try to match the wood color.
 
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I would never want black colored glue or bedding to use on a wood stock. When bedding black plastic stocks, I color the Acraglas, black. When working on brown stocks, I color it, brown.
 
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I would never want black colored glue or bedding to use on a wood stock. When bedding black plastic stocks, I color the Acraglas, black. When working on brown stocks, I color it, brown.


The wood goes right to the metal when you inlet, so you NEVER see it anyway. he he he


When I was a kid. I had the stick. I had the rock. And I had the mud puddle. I am as adept with them today, as I was back then. Lets see today's kids say that about their IPods, IPads and XBoxes in 45 years!
Rod Henrickson
 
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marine tex - is that the stuff they bed blasers with - so they be used as a boat paddle?? stir
 
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I will never use black glass on a wood stock; see it or not.
 
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I will never use black glass on a wood stock; see it or not.


You sound like my ex-wife. Just because it worked better than her way, didn't make it right! LMAO ROFF ! ! ! !

HEY ! I had a few Blasers. I sold them. I'm feeling MUCH BETTER NOW ! LOL


When I was a kid. I had the stick. I had the rock. And I had the mud puddle. I am as adept with them today, as I was back then. Lets see today's kids say that about their IPods, IPads and XBoxes in 45 years!
Rod Henrickson
 
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So you dumb down the acrglas


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i mix with sanding dust, about 50% -- that makes it DARKER than stock, so i have a chunk of blonde walnut that i use to make dust


yep .. if i am repairing a mistake .. *I* bed rifles with marine tex gray - works way better in big bores and makes highly accurate mediums


opinions vary band of bubbas and STC hunting Club

Information on Ammoguide about
the416AR, 458AR, 470AR, 500AR
What is an AR round? Case Drawings 416-458-470AR and 500AR.
476AR,
http://www.weaponsmith.com
 
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marine tex - is that the stuff they bed blasers with - so they be used as a boat paddle?? stir


marine tex gray is different mixture than marine tex white .. the white is flexible ...

don't recall seeing "back"..

btw, NEITHER take stains very well


opinions vary band of bubbas and STC hunting Club

Information on Ammoguide about
the416AR, 458AR, 470AR, 500AR
What is an AR round? Case Drawings 416-458-470AR and 500AR.
476AR,
http://www.weaponsmith.com
 
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I call the grey, black. After it's hardened and shiny it looks more black than grey, to me anyway. The black seems to have nearly double the compression strength of the white. The grey also mills perfectly clean and doesn't melt under carbide end mills run at high speed. The white, not so much. I got a tub of the white by accident one time and being the know-it-all-hero that I am, I figured that I could make use of it anyway. I tried coloring it but the white pigment that they use is so strong that you had to mix in 4 parts pigment just to take the glare off of it. It also cut very poorly in the mill and would soften quickly under the heat of the palm sander like Accraglass does. At $160 CAD per tub, it was a rather expensive mistake which I never made again.


When I was a kid. I had the stick. I had the rock. And I had the mud puddle. I am as adept with them today, as I was back then. Lets see today's kids say that about their IPods, IPads and XBoxes in 45 years!
Rod Henrickson
 
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Yes Marine tex cures more black than gray..

I prefer a clear coat of glass painted on the a finished inletted stock, it looks like finished wood and glass should never show itself on a properly finished stock..

If your doing a factory stock please con't cut out the inside edges, but out underneath them so you don't have a black, brown or whatever line on each side of the barrel as millions have been done.

the guy that hogs out wood and fiberglass and gobs in glass bedding should be gilflurted and stringhaultered, and they are many, but to each his own, whatever blows ones skirt up! rotflmo


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