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Got a repro stock and need to age it to match rest.
Needs slightly darkened and dirtied
What is preferred method/ staining ?
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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.
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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.
the consolidation of the states into one vast republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded. Robert E Lee
~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
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Assemble and loan it to a neighbor for a season with a word or two to be careful. About Christmas, swing by and retrieve if from the back of his pickup.
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Found some stuff about vinegar and steel wool
Also found that there are commercial accelerators.
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vinegar and steel wood will turn any wood with tannin in it - black also called ebonizing the black shelves in this mahogany cabinet were coated in the vinegar with the steelwool "dissolved" in it. ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/bw7xnctH/deco-stereo-3.jpg)
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6-8% solution of potassium permanganate
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