Faux Striping Leman Style

[tallbear]

 I'm currently finishing up a gun that the client wanted faux striped in the style of the Leman Factory in Lancaster PA.Now that i have a few coats of finish on the gun I thought I would share the technique I used.Luckily I had access to an original to study.Once the gun was prepped I first stained it with a 10% Nitric acid and water solution.This differs from my usual Nitrate of Iron stain as it had no iron dissolved in it and I heated it while wet rather than letting it dry.I did this twice.I then sealed it with my my usual spit coat of seed lac.I found that by sealing with the lac first the stripes did'nt bleed as much.I then gave a brush a hair cut to produce the stripes.I tried several different brushes and finally settled on the one pictured.I found the cheap throw away brushes that some use did a very poor job as the bristles broke easily.I then painted on the stripes using regular Higgins India Ink,I found their black magic ink to be much too black and poorly matched the original.Once everything dried I started putting on my top coats.I'm using Blak Forge Armoury's Amber Finishing oil which is a linseed oil based varnish. Be glad to try and answer any questions you might have.I'll post a full set of photo's of the finished gun in a couple of weeks.

Mitch Yates

[Craig Wilcox]

Marvelous work, Mitch!  That is surely a curly piece of maple.

I looked at the pics in order, and thought, Man, he sure did paint on a lot of skinny stripes, bet it took a long time!  Then I saw your "mountain smile" brush.  You certainly DID give that brush a haircut!

[Jim Kibler]

I like that.  It looks not only just about like your original, but has lots of visual appeal as well.  Neat.

Jim

[Tim Crosby]

 Dang Mitch, That has got to be the best Faux work I have ever seen.

   Tim

[Robert Wolfe]

Very nice work!

[hanshi]

That is an excellent job of striping!

[Daryl]

Amazingly good job Mitch. Well done. I'd have thought it was fiddle back maple all the way if not knowing it wasn't so.

[flehto]

your faux paint job looks beautiful and expertly done. How was the rifle held while painting the stripes?.....Fred

[Rawhide Rick]

Does anyone know how I can save this post to my profile or something similar?  I’m going to be attempting this in the near future and would like this as a referrence.

[Dennis Glazener]

Does anyone know how I can save this post to my profile or something similar?  I’m going to be attempting this in the near future and would like this as a referrence.

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Dennis

[BJH]

Oh ny goodness! Can you say steady hands? I could just see in my minds eye the mess I would make. Too cool. I’ve thought about doing a Leaman myself, this is one of the details that boggle me. I’d need to rig some sort of to rest for my hand and fore arm to steady myself. BJH

[tallbear]

How was the rifle held while painting the stripes?.....Fred

Fred
I had initially planned to hold it in something like a checkering cradle but found that it was best just to lay it on a flat surface so I could rest the elbow of the brush hand on the table.I then rotated the stock with the other hand.This gave me a more consistent pattern.

Mitch

[Rawhide Rick]

Does anyone know how I can save this post to my profile or something similar?  I’m going to be attempting this in the near future and would like this as a referrence.

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Dennis


Got it, thanks.