is bed liner on a stock too rough?

[greyling22]

I hear people mentioning putting spray bed liner on a rifle stock and having good results, but I looked at a liner in a truck today and it was a lot rougher than I would ever want on a stock. Do the spray can bed liners put on a less textured finish or are people sanding them down, or is a real rough finish desirable. In an ideal world I would think you would look for a finish similar to the hogue texture. does anybody have any thought or pictures on the matter? I have an sks stock I want to play with.

 

[Shane333]

A while back I purchased an AK buttstock that had been sprayed with bedliner. It does have a little texture but nothing rough at all. I actually like how it turned out. My guess is that the type of bedliner you spray on the stock makes a difference in how rough it is.

 

[greyling22]

what did you use?

 

[6_gunner]

I've used spray-on bed liner (the stuff that comes in cans like spraypaint) for knife handles before. I've found that by applying thin coats, you get a pretty coarse texture, but if you apply thick coats it will end up smoother. The stuff is sticky enough that it won't drip much even if you spray it on pretty thick.

 

[Fast Frank]

The stuff you see in a pickup is probably "Rhinoliner".

It's professionally applied and tough as nails. It's gritty like sandpaper, too.

I have a rifle that's coated with bedliner.

It has a "Pebbled" kind of texture, and offers a pretty good compromise between grip and comfort.

Unfortunately, it was already applied when I rescued that rifle from a pawn shop so I can't tell you what product it is or how much trouble it was to apply.

The good news is that whoever had this rifle before me was a Bozo, and made all sorts of mistakes.

The scope mounting was seriously wrong, and that bedliner is grey in color.

It was so ugly that I was able to buy it REALLY cheap.

I fixed the scope mount up and spray painted the whole thing black.

I figure the Bozo that picked grey for his stocks and mounted his scope with the crosshairs in an "X" probably screwed up the application of the bedliner about as bad as he did everything else.


That bed liner has been on there for at least five years that I've owned the rifle. It's not showing any signs of coming off, either.

I've touched up the flat black a couple of times, and that's it.

I'm betting you can do as nice a job as Bozo did.

Maybe even better.

Heck, I'm even betting you can pick a better color too!

 

[DWARREN123]

A good cheap finish but the surface must be extremly clean before spraying the bed liner on.

 

[PAC 762]

Just buy the cheap spray can stuff from pep boys. Works great.

 

[MRIman]

I've got a few "dogs" that have "TBL" on them.
Hit the stock with 180 grit paper to rough it up.
Wipe it down when done with some minerial spirits.
Go with a number of thin coats,@ every 10 min.
Do like 4-5 thin coats. You should have a great jobe when done.

MRI

 

[greyling22]

an X is unforgivable, but I have seen gray work on guns before. though I have seen is not work on at least as many.
sandpaper, paint thinner, bedliner. spraypaint optional. rock on. project time!

and one last question before I actually go shopping, are there any products that work better than bedliner? just trying to cover my bases. I would like at least some texture to make it not look like I just hit a wood stock with 92 cents worth of matte krylon.

 

[W.E.G.]

I'm pretty sure not all bedliner is created alike.

Some may be gritty. I have a bedliner-painted rifle stock that is not at all gritty, but it is very slightly "pebbly."

I used to have one from a different source, and it was uncomfortably gritty.

 

[greyling22]

weg, do you know what you used to get pebbly?

 

[rangerruck]

I did a switch combo, a coat of bedliner, then dry, then a coat of engine block paint. it came out flat, black, and grippy, not too course at all.
actually, the first coat was the engine block paint.

 

[Gewehr98]

Ask the folks who imported Czech VZ-52 rifles about 10 years ago...

Many came slathered in the stuff - to hide the ugly wood underneath.

 

[greyling22]

isn't that what you do with ugly wood, hide it? or burn it. or sell it on ebay, which is much the same thing.