Best Technique for Tiger Striping!?

[Carl Fowler III]

Looking to tiger stripe my Lyman GPR this Spring. ..any thoughts on techniques? Thought I would strip off finish and lighten the stock using bleach. ..then stain using a light color like honey blonde..then use Indian ink to draw stripes with a thin tipped art brush...and finish using hand rubbed linspeed oil!

 

[Vaino]

If India ink is used for the striping, it's best to seal the wood first otherwise the wood will act like a blotter and the ink will spread into wide stripes.

Don't think you need to bleach the stock unless the grain is ugly. Irrespective as to bleaching or not, the stain should be a medium brown color....otherwise there will be too much contrast w/ the honey blonde. Perhaps that's what you want?

Good luck.....Fred

 

[plmeek]

Jack Brooks describes his technique of duplicating the way Henry Leman rifles were artificially striped on his website.

How Do You Stripe a Leman stock?

It's the next to the last item on the linked page, so go down almost to the bottom of the page.

Here are some photos of three of his rifles done this way.

 

[Davemuzz]

Nice link! Thanks!!

 

[Zonie]

That is the method I've read about before and it sounds like it might be a neat way to finish a old CVA or Traditions gun or of course, a recreation of one of Henry Lemans rifles.

One thing I noticed in the link is, it is just about impossible to read because of the background the text is on.

I found that I could highlight the text and copy it using my mouse.
I then went to a new text page in my computer and using "paste", the text popped onto the page where it is much easier to read.

Having it on its own text page also allowed me to save it to my hard disk for future reference.

 

[Carl Fowler III]

Thanks for the Web site...I do believe that is exactly what I was looking for!