Cheers Pete
Find it here http://members.aol.com/illinewek/faqs/stock.htm
Break your backs and crack your oars men! If you wish to prevail.
Cheers Pete
Break your backs and crack your oars men! If you wish to prevail.
Thanks for the link .
any one got any tips on staining a beach stock before oiling ?
money is tight and i would rather spend the money on the action and improve the stock myself
PS: i want the new gun now not the 6 week lead time the manufacturers have quoted
DONT BEAM ME UP SCOTTY I'M HAVING A CR__.__..._......
Beech rarely looks good after staining. I've tried a couple of times with wood dye and alkanet, and they both had to be sanded back to natural. If anyone can come up with a workable solution I'd be very interested.
One option would be to go for something out of the ordinary, like scorching, but it takes balls!
Dave
If you ain't living on the edge, you're taking up too much room.....
This was my experience too: impossible to get an even colour.Beech rarely looks good after staining. I've tried a couple of times with wood dye and alkanet, and they both had to be sanded back to natural.
Are there any good wood nourishers from the DIY's for walnut as my TDR stock is looking a bit 'dry', it may sound strange but it does look dry or dehydrated i guess, anyway its time to 'feel the love' and give it some attention.
Any advice on products that can nourish this wood would be great and if there are any applying tricks, ie. sanding first or apply direct. as I'm a complete novice with wood
Thanks
Paul
dont know if it will work but on some timbers i have used tea bags and allso camp coffe to stain oh and on ocasion brown boot polish
air arms s410. logun s16
i agree with rockabilk.... Ive had really excellent results with good quality boot polish. Get it nice and warm before application.
i managed a good result using william's stock oil kit (on this forum, known simply as william)
here's my first attempt with his excellent kit (original mod45)
and a pic before i replaced the buttpad, trigger and other stuff (and before i made the panels for the stock cut outs
john
btw, it's a beech stock
Last edited by johnbaz; 16-01-2010 at 01:02 PM.
Hi i could recomend white spirit and bitchuman paint? just buy 500ml of white spirit and take out only 50ml then top up with 50ml of bitchuman paint and shake well ? it was a tip from the master stocker himself Don Robinson and it worked brilliantly on my HW80 with a beach stock.Dino
just use ,t cut for cars=it buffs up fine and hard wearing , save your dosh... ive seen some strip jobs that have applied chemical mixes to end up with a shiny mess, cut the corners, if your going for it just try it on the small pistol cap bit on the grip first,im sure youl be surprised at how easy and long lasting it is.it lifts the grain without having to strip the original colour/which is expensive and hard to renew once stripped
Joekid
That's the sort of thing I think needs to be done to beech if you want it to look impressive. I tried refininshing a couple of BSAs and a Webley and simply couldn't get the colour right. Did you seal the finish once you figured it?
Johnbaz
Wow, that's one mighty well grained piece of beech you've got there. Beautiful.
If you ain't living on the edge, you're taking up too much room.....
Beech seems to respond well to William's kits.
I've just finished profiling and refinishing the stock(s) from an S200.
I took photos at every step of the process.
Photos are here