Cricket stock stripping
Just started the first processes of re-staining my cricket stock….and that’s stripping the varnish off the stock…
Now this is about my 3rd application and I must say…whatever kalibrgun uses to finish their stocks is tuff stuff…
On the first application of the same stripper I had the edgun stock almost all gone of the original finish….so now i see it’s going to be a long process to get this stock to what I want it to look like.
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Not sure exactly what stain you used, but dye would probably have worked better as it soaks into the wood as a solution instead of a suspension which basically fills the grain with particles of stain.
I used aniline dye on my Edgun and finished it with Birchwood Casey Tru-Oil, but if you wanted another type of finished look you could finish it with anything.
Í have e-mailed him for pictures / drawings. You can draw your own design too and he´ll make it, but he´s pretty busy at the moment so count with a long wait if you want your own design made by him.
http://www.lukasz-pietruszka.hostit.pl/news.php
Do you have any pics of the stocks this gentlemen is making for the cricket?…I’d love a new concept stock for my bug.
He is good and a pleasure to deal with too.
Wow. You think he will do a custom select walnut Cricket?
Custom Gun Stocks by LP Works
http://www.lukasz-pietruszka.hostit.pl/news.php
This guy have just started a co-operation with KalibrGun and he makes very,very nice stocks and at affordable price too. I bought a stock for my HW 97 TH from him a good while ago. The quality and fitment is very good.
http://www.lukasz-pietruszka.hostit.pl/news.php
I would say it looks likes walnut more than is walnut. Even the European walnuts are very hard.
I think it looks great. Crickets walnut seems to be alot softer than American walnut. Seems like a totally different walnut wood than I am use to working with.
It’s not what I really wanted but this is as dark the wood was going to get with standard wood stain…I even tried truck bed liner but that the gun look and feel cheap and horrible…I didn’t even want to take a pic of the stock to show you guys because of pure embarrassment….so I stripped that off the gun and went ahead and re-stained the gun to what it is now.
Looks good, you put alot of work in it. Looks like it payed off.
Here is the final product…the ebonizing didn’t go as I hoped…so I went with a dark walnut stain with a laqur finish….I tried the oil rubbed finish but whatever wood the cricket stock is made of keeps sucking in the oil and doesn’t let it sit on the surface…
How about this?
Now i see the light. That´s better.
Ewww we….I said it before when you first made that butt plate….that thing is crazy cool….I’d love to have one and have it anodized black
That is bad ass synopsys!!
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Nice way to reshape the stock! I like the finger groves on it!