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General discussion => Gun Building => Topic started by: Osprey on July 09, 2008, 10:46:39 PM

Title: Thin enough?
Post by: Osprey 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!

Title: Re: Thin enough?
Post by: Stophel on July 09, 2008, 11:10:48 PM

You've got a lot of curl/crossgrain in that fore end!   ;)

Title: Re: Thin enough?
Post by: t.caster 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!