Some More Rifle stock paintjobs

[Brambles]

Got some good remarks from the last paintjobs I did, a fellow gunnut approached me to paint a couple of his stocks. Here are my Chronicals

One was a tikka synthetic, pretty straight forward paint job.

The second was a little more involved, it was an older Bell & Carlson, had been painted a few times by the looks of things. Kinda scratched my head for a while trying to figure out the best way to attack the stock.

This is what it looked like to start with.

Plus it had a real nasty tough wrinkle finish on it. Which seemed real durable but pretty old school.

Stay tuned for more

 

[Brambles]

So I decided the only proper thing to do was to block sand the whole stock to get rid of all the textured finish and smooth everything out.

This is what it looked like all taken down

Like I said it was pretty tough stuff but a little elbow grease and it all paid off.

Yup there's more

 

[Brambles]

Now I still haven't figured out how to take a photo and have the "actual" color show up. But you get the idea.

The Bell and Carlson Tan with fine black webbing
The Tikka is Grey with Fine black webbing

You can see in the photo's the difference in colors under flourecent lights with and without camera flash.

Without flash

With Flash

More Photo's to come

 

[Brambles]

The Tikka next to the B&C

 

[Brambles]

 

[whammy]

Awesome! Looks great!

 

[.308--win]

Sweet work Brambles!!!.....Without giving up to many trade secrets, how do you do the webbing!? Again awesome job!!

Perry

 

[Brambles]

Sweet work Brambles!!!.....Without giving up to many trade secrets, how do you do the webbing!? Again awesome job!!

Perry

It has to do with the thickness of the paint and the gun you use and the trigger technique.

The webbing is still actually a work in progress, I'm getting good results but I haven't figured out how to get the spray gun to spit out larger longer webbs. My webbing is pretty fine grained, which I think looks great but I'm also trying to figure out how to get coarse grained webbing so people have an option.