« previous next »
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: Thin enough?  (Read 3454 times)

Offline Osprey

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1337
  • Roaming Delmarva...
Thin enough?
« on: July 09, 2008, 10:46:39 PM »
I think I got the forestock thin enough on the gun I'm building.  Put a coat of test stain in the barrel channel to see how it is going to look, and when I went back the next day saw something on the outside of the forestock - the stain was visible from the OUTSIDE!   :o  Some of it was seepage through the wood, but dang!
Logged
"Any gun built is incomplete until it takes game!"

Offline Stophel

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 4532
  • Chris Immel
Re: Thin enough?
« Reply #1 on: July 09, 2008, 11:10:48 PM »
You've got a lot of curl/crossgrain in that fore end!   ;)
Logged
When a reenactor says "They didn't write everything down"   what that really means is: "I'm too lazy to look for documentation."

Offline t.caster

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 3667
Re: Thin enough?
« Reply #2 on: July 09, 2008, 11:14:59 PM »
Not uncommon. Ive seen it go thru 1/4" of maple. You won't know it when it's stained outside. No worries!
Logged
Tom C.
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »