No. geezzz I have never finished a stock or seen what old rifle stocks look like...
Other than sapwood, bastogne is not a light-colored walnut...
Appears to me you are somewhat of a one trick pony. You are shackled to the natural color of the wood with no option, or in your closed mine, there is no option...none to do anything with the color of the stock. Even though gunstocks have been stained for as long as there has been gunpowder or a gunstock lol.
I got the answer I needed in a pm so I’m squared away on the finish. Thank you for trying to help given the limits you have placed on yourself.
I guess we’d all be a lot better off if Mauser,Wesley Richards, Holland &Holland and the like would have just stuck with the plain old bare wood. Then you wouldn’t be left slowly shaking your head. I’m mad about it for you and they should be ashamed
