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<blockquote data-quote="Shadowrider" data-source="post: 1645963" data-attributes="member: 3099"><p>So it has begun. I scored a nice Garand out of the CMP a while back and it came with one of their brand new birch stocks. I utterly hate the orange stain they use on them so it's going to go bye bye.</p><p></p><p>I got a piece of new birch plywood and have been messing around with oil finishes. I was wanting to make it look like a walnut at least in color, but in the process I put some pure 100% tung oil on a spot. Now I'm not sure. It is coming out a really nice brown and just looks really classy and I'm thinking this just might be the route to go. One thing is sure, it will be an old school oil finish, I've already got my own concoction of boiled linseed oil, stain, pure tung and some other goodies in it figured out and have the dark brown color pretty much nailed down. But the pure tung is looking really really good, it's actually a bit darker than in the pic. This pic only has two coats on it, I'm going to keep going until it quits taking in the oil. It got a bit darker on the 2nd coat and I'm gonna just see where it goes. I've seen some pic on other forums of guys that did theirs in "blonde" and they are growing on me. This piece of plywood is a bit darker than those and I'm thinking it's gonna be perfect if the actual stock will come out the same way. What say you?</p><p></p><p><strong>[Broken External Image]</strong></p><p><strong>[Broken External Image]</strong></p><p><strong>[Broken External Image]</strong></p><p><strong>[Broken External Image]</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shadowrider, post: 1645963, member: 3099"] So it has begun. I scored a nice Garand out of the CMP a while back and it came with one of their brand new birch stocks. I utterly hate the orange stain they use on them so it's going to go bye bye. I got a piece of new birch plywood and have been messing around with oil finishes. I was wanting to make it look like a walnut at least in color, but in the process I put some pure 100% tung oil on a spot. Now I'm not sure. It is coming out a really nice brown and just looks really classy and I'm thinking this just might be the route to go. One thing is sure, it will be an old school oil finish, I've already got my own concoction of boiled linseed oil, stain, pure tung and some other goodies in it figured out and have the dark brown color pretty much nailed down. But the pure tung is looking really really good, it's actually a bit darker than in the pic. This pic only has two coats on it, I'm going to keep going until it quits taking in the oil. It got a bit darker on the 2nd coat and I'm gonna just see where it goes. I've seen some pic on other forums of guys that did theirs in "blonde" and they are growing on me. This piece of plywood is a bit darker than those and I'm thinking it's gonna be perfect if the actual stock will come out the same way. What say you? [b][Broken External Image][/b] [b][Broken External Image][/b] [b][Broken External Image][/b] [b][Broken External Image][/b] [/QUOTE]
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