Green maple stock

[Kevin]

How would a person go about refinishing a stock that was stained with chromium trioxide and has turned a greenish hue?

 

[Comfortably_Numb]

Scrapers and sandpaper. Good luck

 

[necchi]

How would a person go about refinishing a stock that was stained with chromium trioxide and has turned a greenish hue?

Could you at least try to explain this? How on earth was chromium trioxide used?

 

[Comfortably_Numb]

Could you at least try to explain this? How on earth was chromium trioxide used?

Everybody used to use that stuff. Dunlap used to sell it as MAGIC MAPLE.

 

[Eric Krewson]

A chromium trioxide stained stock, I have thought about redoing it but the stain is part of the history of this 50-year-old rifle.

It is my understanding that initially these stocks looked normal but turned green over time.

 

[rchas]

It depends on trace elements and chemical makeup of the maple. I had one stock immediately turn green--it was as ugly as h@!! and the only recourse (as Comfortably_Numb states...) was to scrape and sand back to bare wood. After that experience I never used CrO3 again.