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I thought I asked this before , but I can't find it.

Does anyone have any tips on painting synthetic stocks with rattle can paint? I have a Kimber Montana and others I'd like to try. Will it stick ok? And do you clear coat it?

Talk to MtnBoomer. He has it pretty well dialed.

Just wipe carefully first with a
clean rag and acetone

I guess you could spray a topcoat
of something, although I don't

Lets see........

Take your garden variety Remington 700 Custom KS, 300 H&H



Take the barreled action out of the stock.

Next, lightly sand the stock with either a sanding block or wet/dry sand paper, say 80 to 120 grit. Coarse enough to notice.

In this case I got some Flat, Tan , Camo Krylon paint for the base coat and a can of Clear Acrylic spray for the sealer.



What's the old saying, plan your work and work your plan. A couple weeks before i ordered some Krylon webbing spray from Mr. Art Supplies,(as you will not find this at Lowes, Home Depot, etc.) over the "innanet". I got Gold, Black and White. I used only the Gold an Black on this stock.

After roughing up the surface, spray two or three light coats of the Tan Camo spray, allowing sufficient time between coats to dry.

I wanted to see how the webbing spray applied, so i tried a bit on a sheet of white poster board



After a couple experiments I went to work.



IIRC, I sprayed the black on first.



Let it dry then applied the gold webbing spray.

Sometimes less is more.



After the webbing spray dried, I smoothed off the 'tits' with #0000 steel wool, and applied several light coats of clear acrylic spray.









It has served me well over the years!


ya!

GWB

One more with Black and White webbbing spray, Green Camo base coat!



Browning A-Bolt, 300 Win Mag



ya!

GWB

I've had good luck applying krylon with torn up pieces of sea sponge then clear coating. You can get pretty good depth in the pattern and it creates some texture in the process. I just use blue painters tape when clear coating to keep the channel clean and hang from an unfolded wire coat hanger (makes it easy to hold and rotate in one hand while spraying clear coats).

Do you guys tape off the barrel channel or are you not worried about getting any overspray in the barrel channel or bed of the stock?

Great info ,thank ya'll

I tape off the barrel channel and the trigger guard inletting.

Brownells Aluma-Hyde works really well. Just not as many colors as Krylon.

Is primer necessary? And are 2 paint coats enough?

The original.paint acts as a primer. Aluma-Hyde is epoxy paint and sticks really well to fiberglass

Not as fancy as GWB but serviceable. This is Rustoleum Textured. Good grip and tough.

Is that pink or purple?

PRM has a good write up I followed it to make this 338 Montana blend in a little better:



Public land doe tag filled a few years back:

What about painting laminate stocks?
Anything special or just prime n go?

tag for later projects....

Ive done pattern and sponge painting on synth stocks.
Am now to where solid color or webbed is preferred.
Kinda anti camo really.

I’d probably sand a little bit just to give it some texture and then use a coat of primer base coat. Regular paint might not hold to well to a lacquer.

Good stuff here. Keep posting.

This could be a sticky.