A shout-out to all the woodworking and/or gunsmithing nutz... Would like to stain my tired old stock BPS forearm with a totally different colour, thinking ebony. The stock is a homemade job and it never really matched the forearm, now planning to stain them at the same time. Have no issues with the stock, I wittled it myself out of use, did not stain it and just used Tru-oil on it. Plan to sand it down, ebony stain it and re-apply the Tru-oil.
The forearm however is from the factory, looks like whatever finish was on it has worn away, just the factory stain in the wood. My question is this, if I were to sand it lightly, would I be able to get that distinctive red stain out from the walnut? If I were to get it down to bare wood then a blackish stain would take and roughly match the ash stained (yes....I said ash stained
) colour. Crappy pic of the forearm below. Thanks.
The forearm however is from the factory, looks like whatever finish was on it has worn away, just the factory stain in the wood. My question is this, if I were to sand it lightly, would I be able to get that distinctive red stain out from the walnut? If I were to get it down to bare wood then a blackish stain would take and roughly match the ash stained (yes....I said ash stained
) colour. Crappy pic of the forearm below. Thanks.
