i finally finished my pistol end cap project , rose wood micarta with a laser burned deer , i think it came out good without touching the original stock finish
pistol grip end cap
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rose wood micarta ? Micarta is usually layers of cloth in a matrix, how do you make this using rosewood ?
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"Micarta is usually layers of cloth in a matrix, how do you make this using rosewood?"
Most likely just micarta in layers of dyed white-wood misrepresented with the buzz-word 'rosewood' for marketing purposes. I've also seen laminated-wood pistol grips actually marketed as Coco Bolo. In both cases the buzz-words should be prefaced properly with 'FAUX'.
Such shameless marketing TRICKERY is partly why we so often see consumers misrepresenting their guns' walnut-stained hardwood stocks as walnut; sometimes purposely, occasionally not.
Real Rosewood (Moradillo) cap on a walnut-stained hardwood stock stripped of the walnut paint to reveal the natural grain.
Rosewood (Bocote) cap on real walnut beautified with a soft-luster finish.
Real Coco Bolo on a walnut-stained hardwood stock.
Clues that the same woodworker did all three examples are the brass Phillips-head cap attachment screws, a preference for soft-luster finish rather than high-gloss, and attraction to airguns, and pistols.
Faux Coco Bolo (laminated wood) grips.
Most likely just micarta in layers of dyed white-wood misrepresented with the buzz-word 'rosewood' for marketing purposes. I've also seen laminated-wood pistol grips actually marketed as Coco Bolo. In both cases the buzz-words should be prefaced properly with 'FAUX'.
Such shameless marketing TRICKERY is partly why we so often see consumers misrepresenting their guns' walnut-stained hardwood stocks as walnut; sometimes purposely, occasionally not.
Real Rosewood (Moradillo) cap on a walnut-stained hardwood stock stripped of the walnut paint to reveal the natural grain.
Rosewood (Bocote) cap on real walnut beautified with a soft-luster finish.
Real Coco Bolo on a walnut-stained hardwood stock.
Clues that the same woodworker did all three examples are the brass Phillips-head cap attachment screws, a preference for soft-luster finish rather than high-gloss, and attraction to airguns, and pistols.
Faux Coco Bolo (laminated wood) grips.
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