Painting Beaver Barf Furniture?

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I have an old beaver barf stock from an 858 (I assume, I bought it as a spare with no rifle attached to it). I would like to paint it with some rattle can bedliner to make it suitably black and HSLD.

Has anyone painted this stuff? Do I need to do any prep beyond degreasing and light sanding to break the shine?


Thanks,
Mark
 
Leavenworth said:
What is Beaver Barf Furniture ?
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As others have said, it is a composite material made up of coarsely chopped pieces of wood in a glue/binder of some sort.

The stock in question:

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Mark
 
Honestly i painted beaver bark on my old cz i had when i was like 18. Really regretted it. I now appreciate how unique and borderline antique that furniture is. Long since sold the rifle. I just krylon'd it with zero surface prep or anything and it held up very well. Its your gun and if it makes you like it more go for it, but id say if your not 100% on it maybe hold off and itll grow on you eventually lol.
 
apexanimal said:
Honestly i painted beaver bark on my old cz i had when i was like 18. Really regretted it. I now appreciate how unique and borderline antique that furniture is. Long since sold the rifle. I just krylon'd it with zero surface prep or anything and it held up very well. Its your gun and if it makes you like it more go for it, but id say if your not 100% on it maybe hold off and itll grow on you eventually lol.
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If all of the furniture was the same I would keep it as is, but everything else is black, so this needs to match that.


Mark
 
A matching Beaver Barf stock set is beautiful on it's own, especially with natural wear.
Horrifying to think of pAiNtInG it. :)
But that's just me. Have fun with your painting art.
 
mmattockx said:
I have an old beaver barf stock from an 858 (I assume, I bought it as a spare with no rifle attached to it). I would like to paint it with some rattle can bedliner to make it suitably black and HSLD.

Has anyone painted this stuff? Do I need to do any prep beyond degreasing and light sanding to break the shine?


Thanks,
Mark
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I wouldn't paint it . when have you ever seen anything like that before? I never have . now this is only my opinion but you would be destroying
something you will never find again. it's like people who were cutting down lee Enfield rifles for hunting. I gifted a Long Branch to a former friend who bought me a firearm for my birthday. the Long Branch 303 was original. and what did he do? even though it belonged to him?
he cut the wood off and shortened it. and bought a 5 round mag that was in his words more streamlined. I almost crapped my pants.

if I could have laid an egg I would have. I thought I hunted for as mint Canadian made 303 for you and you destroyed it. your choice brother.
 
Cement head II said:
I wouldn't paint it . when have you ever seen anything like that before?
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On nearly every cz858 and many of the non-restricted vz58's. It was everywhere in years past.

As I said, if all the furniture matched the stock I would leave it. But it doesn't and this stock isn't original to this rifle, so there is no collector or sentimental value to it at all. I just wanted a fixed stock to replace the original folder because it's gross to shoot with.

This has turned out to be quite a funny thread. I though it was a simple technical question and here it turned into a religious debate. Who knew?


Mark
 
Religious debate? I wish to God I could use my 858!
It has the original beaver barf (painted black) and a real wood stock set and the metal folding rear stock.
 
That is the one gun I regret selling CZ858. I bought and sold 3 of them all with the beaver barf furniture and regretted selling every time. Sold my final one, and then they got banned so never could replace it. I should never have sold them.

If anyones got pics of the CZ858/VZ58s they want to share for the younger generation to see the beauty of them, and the older generation her that misses them dearly, post them up. Would love a walk down memory lane.
(Sorry, dont mean to try and hijack the thread.)
 
Geoff B said:
It looks OK but it hasn't seen the sun in years!
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That's the tragedy of our times.

thebutcher said:
(Sorry, dont mean to try and hijack the thread.)
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But you've done a great job of it! :ROFLMAO:

I don't mind if anyone posts pics. It would be good for those who were unaware of it to see how a full set of beaver barf furniture looks on the gun. To start this off, Ian has a vz58 video on Forgotten Weapons (with beaver barf furniture):


FFS, age restricted. I guess people will have to follow the link...


Mark
 
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