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sniper · Silver Status Member

feeling green. Mr. Green

the storm i bought from packrat. this is 5 coats of stain made from
green oil based paint-50/50 with lampblack utc.
8 coats of satin oil based poly.

i used 50/50 paint thinner and naptha as the vehicle.
the final mix was about 1 part color 3 parts thinner.
i wanted a green to contrast the red on my 392.
it came out how i wanted. Mr. Green

Slavia · Moderator

Very nice. You can still see the character of the wood without the stain being muddy. The green is a nice change in a world of red and brown wood.

What does utc mean?

After your single-handed promotion of the poly industry on this forum, I decided to try it on my Mendoza. I'm glad I did - it's tough as nails.

fritz · Silver Status Member

Very nice. I do like that shade of green with the grain of the wood. Mr. Green

sniper · Silver Status Member

sniper · Silver Status Member

one more note to add...

this is the least amount of sanding i've ever done on a stock Shocked

the first 6 coats of poly were shot wet-on-wet in one day Shocked

after an overnight dry inside the house hanging near the furnace
it was painstakingly sanded with a very worn down piece of 320.

the final 2 coats again were wet-on-wet.

and you won't find one single amount of "orange peel" on it. Laughing

unless one is very well praticed with these materials i wouldn't recommend
trying to do this as fast as what i do. air tempature is an important factor.

for the novice reading this.... take it slow.... Wink

broommaster2000 · Moderator

Green-ish. Looks classe!

I'm thinking of stripping the stock on my HW90. There's a thick layer of crap on it (admitted by the pre-previous user) that I'd like to take off. The pre-previous user of this gun said he'd do it again and take a bit more care doing it. Mr. Green

Slavia · Moderator

Sniper - what's your opinion regarding chemical stripper vs. sanding the old finish off?

sniper · Silver Status Member

slavia,
that's kind of a tough question. i have limited experience with chemical strippers. i've never used it on a stock. only on wood trim (houses) and epoxy porch coatings.

if the stock has engraving or stippling then it can't be sanded off (why i haven't attacked my mrod yet).

i assume if a stock is finished with nothing but a lot of tung oil
a stripper intended for getting the oil out of the grain would be used....
rather then sanding off a clear coating. (why i haven't attacked my M1A)

even if a stock is stained and cleared sanding will always work, it'll just take a bit more sanding to get beyond the top layer of grain which is stained, without oversanding it and stripping the grain itself.

this is why i always say be careful if stripping with 100 grit. it's very easy to go to far.

what's your experience with chemical strippers?

Slavia · Moderator

Alstone · Moderator & Site Supporter

Nice colour Sniper and photographs well. Thumb Up!

Al

sniper · Silver Status Member

thanks al!
slavia,
there was one product i used years ago. it was on the eves of an old house and the homeowner supplied it. she had to drive to another county to get it. Shocked

anyway, it came in a tub the same as joint compound and had the same consistency. the brand was "back to nature" if i remember. it did burn like hell if you got it on your skin.

the way it worked is you take a broad knife and plaster it on to the surface the same as you would joint compound/hot mud.

i had to baby sit it until i saw the paint lift then as it dried you bladed it off revealing virgin wood. very efficient.

i later saw bob vila using something similar on and old fireplace hearth resto-job on t.v.

it was very easy to work with. for more power you'd just put on a thicker layer and vice-versa. i never saw this material again.

in california we are losing every year more and more products in the painting biz because of the state and being a "green" state.

the CAAQMD has an assult ongoing in the industry with the same magnatude as gun control. Shocked

a couple years ago i had the displeasure of using aircraft grade liquid stripper-like 5 gallons of it. Shocked

i'll decline that next job opportunity. Rolling Eyes

i need to research this mud type stipper and find some. i have 2 furniture projects waiting where sanding won't do it. i'm NOT using the liquid crap either. Evil or Very Mad

but yeah, for smooth wood sanding is the way to go IMO.

Mark5043 · Silver Status Member

Hey,nice work there Sniper,it turned out well.I wanna see a pink AR stock now......
Mr. Green

I had thought about doing something similar to what you did using some poly,and automotive tint from my old shop.Should be super durable. Wink

sniper · Silver Status Member

[quote="Mark5043"]I wanna see a pink AR stock now......
quote]

nope. i'm planning the next 2 for the year. a blue so deep it's almost black and one in copper-not gold-not yellow-copper.

maybe. Idea