I had the pleasure of purchasing this awesome edgun with this awesome stock. I want to know from you guys who specialize in wood work on how I can get the charcoal coloring to be black instead? What are my options?
Hi! I am a cabinet/furniture/woodworker who thinks changing the color of natural wood is a sacrilege... it would not be an easy thing to change the stripes on this stock, as any dye would bleed into the lighter wood. I would say to live with it. It is beautiful!
BTW, you will decrease the value of the rifle if you paint it.
Hi! I am a cabinet/furniture/woodworker who thinks changing the color of natural wood is a sacrilege... it would not be an easy thing to change the stripes on this stock, as any dye would bleed into the lighter wood. I would say to live with it. It is beautiful!
BTW, you will decrease the value of the rifle if you paint it.
But it is already not the natural color. The beauty of dye is it lets the natural wood grain come through. The key to keeping the dye from bleeding is to seal with a spray top coat, vs brushing.
I believe they stain the the wood before they laminate it, that's how I was taught. If you strip the finish the wood will still be red and gray. you will have to stain the gray to black, be very careful as the black will bleed into the red. When completed seal with a water base polyurathane (sp?). If you use and oil based finish you run the risk the oil to resuspend the stain and have schmirring into the red. If it was my gun I'd learn to live with it. It would be so easy to botch the job.
I would strip and we apply stain rather than attempt to darken existing stain. Apply pre-stain solution to treat the wood as well. Make sure to apply a polymerizer after too.