Stain?

[Mr. Joe]

Would a person have to stain a remington after using zip strip before applying a boiled linseed oil?  If so, what color stain do you all recomend and what brand?

[7x57mm]

Joe: I never stain. It just isn't needed in my opinion. The wood may look white and naked when the finish is stripped, but the finish will darken it up. A stain might make it too dark. Good luck ... Tom Purdom

[montveil]

You may want to consider tung oil. IMO it is a superior oil finish for wood.

[gunnut69]

If I stain a stock it is to high light the figure and I use solvent based stains. They don't raise the grain and the excess can be stell wooled to provide the high lights I'm after. The stains I use are translucent and are available at Brownells but I'm at a loss for the name just now.. I'll look and get back later..

[opatriot]

 GDAY FRIENDS.. I know this is an old post but it got me thinking ...Im getting ready to out a finish on a 50.cal. black powder pistol from a kit ...the wood is plain maple but I have seen finishes done to these that make them look sorta like tiger maple ...I think they call it faux finish or something  like that .. Has anyone done this type of finish ?   do you use a paintbrush to apply pattern with stain and then put final finish with oil  ?      any suggestions would be appreciated   ...... 

[oldandslow]

I use a Victor acetylene torch with a 000 welding tip to stripe plain maple stocks. Use a neutral flame and don't turn it up very high. Keep the flame moving so you get narrow stripes. I hold the stock in one hand and roll it in the opposite direction I am moving the torch with the other hand. After I finish striping I rub the stock lightly with 0000 steel wool and then apply Min-Wax oil stain. Feibings leather dye works well too. I finish it with Min-Wax clear gloss polyurethane varnish and then rub it with rotten stone to kill the gloss.

[opatriot]

 GDAY  OLD AND SLOW .... thanx for the input , I never thought of burning ..... I recently used  a plumbers torch to put a candy cane look to my ramrod in Kentucky  rifle ..turned out good ...... I do not own an acetylene torch , do they make those tips for propane torches ? and do you think that would work ?          thanx ...davey

[oldandslow]

I'm not sure what is available now for propane torches. I tried the smallest torch I could find years ago and it was too large. It made the stripes too wide. You have much more precise control over the flame size with acetylene. Of course it is a much hotter flame so you have to be careful not to char a spot by moving too slow.