tiger stripe

[dud]

how do you put fake tiger stripes on stocks?cant afford new wood right now.

[Nobade]

Check out the Dixie Gun catalog. I believe they have a section on how to do this.

[necchi]

According to Dixe:
 He say's he's heard of wrapping burning rope around the stock, but goes on to say he's never seen evidence of burning on any of thousands of original stocks!
 He thinks; "they used a 50% solution of water and Muratic acid with iron fillings or steel wool disolved in the solution and this was striped on and allowed to penetrate the wood which in two or three months, through a chemical reaction, changed to an oxide and became dark."
 Makes sence, but many today don't want to wait 2-3 months. Another quandry is Muratic acid is a mix of water and hydrochloric acid. It's available today in a 5% solution for mason work to clean brick facia, or up too a 30% solution to treat water in swimming pools.

[chg]

One fellow had one that he actually hand inked each stripe on.  Looked great.  His theory was to always go dark, it hid imperfections.  Worked too!  I recall Track having information on it in one of their earlier catalogs, might give them a try.

[Longknife 76]

Henry Leman did this to many gunstocks back in the 19th century. There is evidence that "teeth" were cut into a wide paint brush so several stripes could be stained at once. Don't try the wood stains you get a Lowes, they won't penetrate enough on the hardwoods. An alcohol based penetrating stock stain like Laurel mountain forge is good, Fiebings leather dye is an alcohol based stain and works great on wood, I like the dark brown. its a real dark reddish color. These stains are very strong and can be thinned with alcohol (recommended). The "acid" stains need to be heated over an open flame to bring out the color, you don't need to wait several months, they are best used on curly maple, they bring out the curl real well. that burning rope trick is BULL C---!!!! Ed