Originally Posted by gnoahhh
Thing is no matter what you do it'll look like an artificially aged stock, but short of redoing the metal to match the wood what's a boy to do?

I did a Mauser stock once by rubbing it with used motor oil and beating it up with a key ring full of keys. Looked like crap when I was done. Shame because it was a real pretty WWII vintage stock. Ah, the hubris of youth.

BTDT! still have it in a outbuilding somewhere, 50 years later. if the rats haven't eaten it.

Last edited by deerstalker; 03/27/21.

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