The Ugly Black Swan... (picture heavy)

[Wham-O]

I recently bought a cheap, OEM Ruger 10/22 stock from Boyds stocks.
It was sprayed a bed liner black and I wasn't sure what I was going to do with it?

I took the plastic butt plate off it to swap it over to a chrome/metal one for starters, when I noticed it was a pink laminate stock that was painted over at Boyds.

I took the stock and stripped/sanded the bed liner off it.

After I stripped the stock, I gave the it 3 coats of hot black die mixed with menthol alcohol as a drying agent.
Between each coat I sanded the stock with 000 steel wool.

After each coat, it started to take on a darker purple colour.

When I finished dying the stock, I gave it 4 coats of satin polyurethane and put the rest of the pieces of the puzzle together.
I know it's not every-bodies piece of cake, but it sure put a smile on my daughters face when I told her it was her's.....

 

[rtracer13]

nice job. Glad she liked it

 

[Doc M]

EDIT: (I'm a retard, I totally missed the part about it being for your little girl.)

-M

 

[CRAZYLOCH]

WOW!!! Awesome find with the stock and it looks great, Love the fade you did with the barrel

 

[GIGGIDY]

From the frying pan into the fire...

I hope that's for your girlfriend/wife or daughter?

-M

Can't read very well can you, he said its for his daughter.

 

[ukie_10]

did you just happen to have pink accessories for the 10/22 or was this planned?

 

[Wham-O]

WOW!!! Awesome find with the stock and it looks great, Love the fade you did with the barrel

Thanks CrazyLoch....

From the frying pan into the fire...

I hope that's for your girlfriend/wife or daughter?

-M

Typical....
flame first....read later

did you just happen to have pink accessories for the 10/22 or was this planned?

I took some accessories I have kicking around (scope rail, trigger, mag release, etc) and buffed off the black paint down to the bare aluminum.
I sprayed them all first with a self etching primer and then sprayed them with Dupli-colour Metal Cast paint (2 coats of silver first ...then 3 coats of purple then 3 coats of clear coat )

ht tp://www.duplicolor.com/products/metalcast.html

 

[Doc M]

Can't read very well can you, he said its for his daughter.

Haha! Doc's reading = FAIL!

I'm a #### then, I'm glad she likes it! Apologies for my retardation, that's what I get for watching the Detroit-San Jose game and typing at the same time...

-M

 

[GIGGIDY]

Haha! Doc's reading = FAIL!

I'm a #### then, I'm glad she likes it! Apologies for my retardation, that's what I get for watching the Detroit-San Jose game and typing at the same time...

-M

Happens to the best of us.

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

I think that kicks ass. Well done.

 

[Doc M]

Happens to the best of us.

Yeah, to the best of us... and, apparently, to cretins like me too...

-M

 

[RedCondor]

Wow, nice job on the refinishing! When I read the title I thought I was going to see a gun being sprayed with bed-liner, not having it taken off.

 

[Houndog]

That's a great looking rifle, nicely done!

My wife and daughters would love that

 

[peddler]

Just showed my daughter and I got the irresistible, "Oh, Daddy, can you do that for me, please?" It's always "Daddy" when she wants something!

Looks great...thanks for posting.

 

[cyclone]

I wish I had that kind of skill.........my compliments! ....

 

[Slim-Jim]

Very nice job Wham-O! She got a really cool dad!!

 

[the_dude306]

Very nice! I really like the pink accessories.

 

[Backfire]

Nicely done,and now your daughter has a one of a kind.

 

[notsorichguy]

That turned out real well.

Good Job sir!

 

[Wham-O]

Thanks Guys.....
I appreciate the positive feedback.