I have a question some traditionalists may scoff at...

Many years ago the late Eddie Penzig, author of articles and books on Colonial history, guns and on Bushrangers, had a small museum and bought a burr walnut occasional table and when he showed it to John Kell, who was a master carpenter and joiner, John showed him that it was painted, Eddie was upset until we pointed out to him that what he had was rarer than the real thing and suited his Colonial theme in the museum.
There were lots of faked timbers in furniture but very few that were very well done.

Yeah , faux stripe that stock ! Its your rifle . Hope to see pics of it when done . Sounds like Ronald knows what he's talking about . I'd be buddying up to him ! Best of luck !

Thanks for all the comments gentlemen, sounds like the encouragement I need haha if I attempt I will certainly share

@Vikingman1981, instead of a paint brush, use the edge of a turkey feather to apply the stain for a stripe. These are easier to apply varying widths of striping than a paint brush. See the techniques for artificial marbling. Practice on scrap wood first.

Most of the faux striping jobs look really bad but when an artist knows what he is doing the stripes the result can be pretty impressive.

Vikingman1981 said:

So please don't beat me up but I have a Lyman Deerstalker flinter and I love it. I also love tiger striped guns. Has anyone ever striped a deerstalker? I can't seem to find any in any searches...perhaps because it's never been done?

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Here's an article on Faux stock striping...

How to make Faux/Fake "tiger striping"

Here's Forum member @markh 's faux striped Leman rifle...

Leman Trade Rifle

Here are some original trade rifle stocks with faux stipes



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billraby said:

Painted on stripes are always going to look painted on. If you want it to look natural the only way is to buy a nice piece of wood.

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I have seen a few of what they call super premium maple and to me they look like they have been painted on the stripes are all so even. Leman obviously used a special brush because you can see a pattern of 8 stripes of different widths and spaces on the stock. If you look at the curl on most rifles the stripes are all different widths and there will be open areas with no stripes. I used several different brush widths and actually tried to make it as uneven as possible so it would look very close to the real thing. Not trying to pass it off as real because I told the guy who bought the rifle it was fake. I had planned to do this to the Transition style rifle that I am working on now. I ordered this stock blank as a CM2 with the intent of seeing if I could add curl what it would look like. Well as I work on it this thing has curl pretty much the length of the stock. Gotta love Pecatonica they always seem to send a better grade than I paid for.

This thread is just like Street rodders painting rust spots on their cars.

I'd do it now there options of a curly maple replacement stock run about %$125