Fake tiger striping a stock?

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natural fiber ropes like cotton or hemp soaked in paraffin wax. its then rapped around the stock burning the rope and slowly spinning it as it burns. this is said to be the traditional way. a also here u can soak the rope in some link of mild acid, this chemically stains the wood. i have seen my dad do it with a torch to. .
 
In an old book I read about the acid staining. I think they used vinegar but don't recall the time it took to do so. Not sure if they soaked nails in the solution or not but seems they did add something to it before they used the solution.
 
darkcloud said:
In an old book I read about the acid staining. I think they used vinegar but don't recall the time it took to do so. Not sure if they soaked nails in the solution or not but seems they did add something to it before they used the solution.
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i have seen different thing to use like the vinegar. i make a mix with vinegar and 0000 steel wool finley ut up and degreased, i use this on walnut stocks it will make the wood seam old and original. u can try with the vinegar by testing different times, use a q tip in the barrel channel.

this stock was refinished with the vinegar solution sorry for the bad photo.
 

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I have some oak flooring I will try it on plus a few other pieces of hardwood scrap I can test with. It may give me an idea how it will turn out. Plenty of steel wool around and I can remove the oil with a rinse in some acetone. I think I am going to use some leather dye instead of stain for coloring the wood. It is a reddish brown color that I like when doing leather work.
 
ya what ever makes u happy that's the nice thing with guns. if u make that mix it works good for stain with oak gives it that nice weathered barn wood look. it takes many days to make it hot vinegar helps to. half a pad is all u need to make a quart remember tiny peaces use some snips
 
An old gunmaker used small diameter rope covered with pine pitch. Wrap theat around the stock in the pattern desired then heat until the pitch softend and absorbed into the stock. The same rope could be used multiple times.
 
I have a friend who uses one of those small air brushes and stain. He's quite good at it.
 
Well first, the burning cord, or sometimes I've heard of a long piece of waxed, candle wick, taken off of a spool, was used, but..., this was done before the final sanding, as the effect works the best by reducing it some and smoothing it, then finish with coats of boiled, linseed oil. IF you do this on an already finished stock, the burning will often in the hands of a novice,make shallow depressions thus ᴗ ....and if you then sand down the stock to properly complete the process you will end up with ill fitting metal parts when you reassemble the rifle..., which is why it was done before final scraping so that the stock would not have such depressions and the wood to metal fit would be as it should.

So..., to do it on a finished stock, you strip the stock with Citri-Strip..https://www.lowes.com/pd/CitriStrip...MI1Oae1aj83gIVVwOGCh36QAnEEAQYBSABEgLFxfD_BwE, works quite well and a bit less dangerous than older types of furniture stripper. Then when the stock (likely beech or more likely birch on a CVA) is clean, you will "paint" the stock with stain. You'll need nitric acid stain [ aqua fortis ] as a base https://www.trackofthewolf.com/Categories/PartDetail.aspx/392/1/AQUAFORT-2, and Fiebings brown leather dye for the stripes, https://www.southtexastack.com/fiebing-company,-inc_/fiebing-leather-dye-4oz-4053, plus you will need to make a trip to the craft store that sells art supplies to get the proper paint brush, and then modify that paint brush...

So scroll down on this link, and you will find the instructions on how to faux-stripe a gunstock. This was very popular on Lehman trade rifles, so scroll down to "how to stripe a Lehman stock". You can practice on scrap pieces of wood before you do the stock, and you can do this on plain-Jane knife handles (hint hint) too. It's pretty simple to do. :thumbup:

How to Stripe a Lehman stock http://www.jsbrookslongrifles.com/theclassroom.htm

LD
 
Nicely done!! I have used alcohol based dark walnut stain and a artist's paint brush to get a random striped pattern. The wood should be at it's final sanded stage and ready for finish.
 
Frontiers job looks far better than any Lehman I have seen. I too have an airbrush I used to fade stain wood arrows when i made and sold them. I will get some more dye and practice striping with it. I may find I like that technique too or even better.
 
Painted on is always going to look fake. For $200 to $300 you can get a very nice half stock maple blank and carve a new stock.
 
Did the same thing, went to a big rendezvous with a Leman trade rifle and lots of folks thought it had a curly maple stock. Was just plain no figure maple.
 
I use curly maple in furniture, Knick knacks,music and jewelry boxes. It can be had at major lumber dealers for 4 to 6 dollars a board foot. Buy kiln dried 6/4 stock. Most major suppliers will let you sort thru the stacks for just the right plank. Of course that’s the easy part, hard parts turning into a gun stock, something I’ve never tried. :what:
 
Decades ago there was an article in one of the annuals where a guy Bubba-ed the heck out of s K98 and one of the tortures was to "Tiger Stripe" the stock using a butane torch.

Among the other horrors he shortened the action and bolt and magazine front to rear and set back the barrel and produced a pieced to tether shortened and "sporterized burnt stocked 7.92 x 33 Kurz rifle for his sub teen son.

Actually at the time I thought it was kind of neat, having just found a mysterious very short 8mm necked cartridge with Denver marked M2 brass base at our local unsupervised range.

Keep in mind this was before Nixon, so China WAS NOT importing boat loads of 7.62x39 rifles and ammo yet and Europe still lived under the morning shadow of the Iron Curtain.

-kBob
 
frontiergander said:
i dont know about that, i fooled some of the contemp long rifle asoc. on facebook. Some quality builders there and they thought my stuff was real .
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Yep, and IF one wanted a real, authentic replica of Lehman Trade Rifle, an inexpensive rifle "fancied up" for the fur trappers in the Rocky Mountains coming to the Rendezvous...., that rifle is gonna need some faux striping...

Kind a like a Type G trade gun...., you want one that's authentic in it's reproduction, it's painted Carolina blue, and if you want a Bumford type trade gun..., you get a vine pattern painted on the stock.


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