Tried some automotive vinyl wrap on my Daystate Renegade. I ended up with a coupla small wrinkles, but you need to "look" for them.
Note - Thanks to my cat, for the chewed butt pad..!
Mike
That looks awesome. How is that material applied?
It's a fairly thin material (the vinyl) to begin with. I first used tape to secure the forend to the main part of the stock together.
Then I laid the "wrap" inline with the straight edge of the top of the forend. You just place the vinyl as you go down the stock. When you come to low or raised areas, you use a heat gun to soften the vinyl so it'll move/stretch very easily. I used my fingers for most of the different surface levels...heat, and force the material into the low/high areas. Keeping pressure on the material as you move. As the vinyl cools, it stays in place. You have to be careful on how you lay the vinyl, as it's easy to get bubbles and wrinkles. I've found it to be sorta inevitable in some circumstances. I just use a fresh, pointed exaco blade to poke a tiny hole so the air can escape. The hole disappears as the material cools.
Lotsa heating, and forcing into shape. Then when everything is complete, a light heating of the whole thing helps "set" the vinyl in its new position so it doesn't try to "pull" itself out of place. You wait until it all cools to room temperature to cut all of the excess material away from anyplace that you don't want it. It took almost two hours for the complete job.
And yes, if you want to change it, or just remove it...you heat and pull. While the material is pretty sticky, it doesn't seem to leave any residue on the parent material.
Here's my first try. I modified the stock on my Argus 45. I was gonna just paint it until I found "Gunskins" wrap. Long story, but I decided to see if the automotive wrap is similar to the Gunskins wrap. Yes, it seems to be. You just need to search out the style and coloring that you like.
Mike
