I have me a wood sick from a Cooey 64b. I stripped the varnish with Circa 1850 furniture stripper (which worked fantastic, btw). Now, I'm on to staining. Minwax cherry wood was chosen. I have a question about application. They say to wait 4-6 hours to apply the second coat. What happens if I wait longer? I was planning on putting the first coat on tonight and waiting until I got home from work tomorrow to do the second coat, but I wanted to check with you guys first.
Stock staining
- Thread starter weasel1
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TrevorMack
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- Nova Scotia
I dont think it would hurt, thats what I did with my last gun I restained and no problems.
You will find a detailed amount of info here in the stickies.
Written by a fellow that has 50 years experience with Sherwin Williams min wax goes by the handle noremph.
You will soon become enlightened with his knowledge. Well worth the read about oils stains dyes ET all,lacquer varnish poly you name it.. It is a must read.
http://www.rimfirecentral.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=275
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Written by a fellow that has 50 years experience with Sherwin Williams min wax goes by the handle noremph.
You will soon become enlightened with his knowledge. Well worth the read about oils stains dyes ET all,lacquer varnish poly you name it.. It is a must read.
http://www.rimfirecentral.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=275
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I have pm'd him a few times,just a encyclopedia on gun stock refinishing and chemical trouble you can get into with waxes and more.Pay close attention the info on silicone's and auto wax it incredible what that man has done and his willingness to share valuable info as well he is a wealth of knowledge. He actually ran a couple of the Sherwin Williams plants.He also restores furniture.
May take a couple on nites reading and a glass or 2 of rum but really valuable.In the stickies there are a bunch of pdf's to download you will really enjoy.I hope this dials you in on the techniques.It sure helped me in a big way.You will also learn of mistakes to avoid that can bite you in the a** because of poor info we have all read on forums about gun stocks. Glad to help.
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It's up to you of course but for my tastes I've always found that I don't like heavily stained wood. It just looks too fake. Sort of like when a movie switches to "film negative" mode. So the rare times that I do stain my wood projects I tend to use colours that are not too far off the natural color and I don't like to use more than a hint of even that. I've used this minimal approach to make some pretty darn boring wood pop out a bit and make the most of what it is. But if I'd tried to put more stain onto the wood it would have gone too far the other way and covered over what little interesting grain there was. It's definitely a case of "if a little is good then more is going to mess it up".
So my suggestion is to start with a light amount of staining. Apply it and rub most of it off as per the instructions. I would only try more if the first treatment looks really badly blotchy.
And remember that the top coats of oil or oil based varnish you're going to use will darken and clarify the colour to some extent. So don't make it as dark as you think you want with just the stain or it'll turn out downright black when you apply the oil or varnish.
So my suggestion is to start with a light amount of staining. Apply it and rub most of it off as per the instructions. I would only try more if the first treatment looks really badly blotchy.
And remember that the top coats of oil or oil based varnish you're going to use will darken and clarify the colour to some extent. So don't make it as dark as you think you want with just the stain or it'll turn out downright black when you apply the oil or varnish.
Wow, thanks for that. I was fortunate enough that a kind soul donated 3 rifles for me to learn on. So far, things are working out great. I have some skills, but have never applied them all at once to the same thing. I am doing Cooey stock right now. The next victim is a bolt action 410 and then a Russian crack barrel 410. I'll post the learning curve once I'm done with the Tung oil on the Cooey. I tell you one thing, the right products can help tremendously.
