Pictures of the Vinegar stain

[boar]

Heres the gun, it only has two coats of tru oil, so far. This is barbwire and vinegar. Not bad. Dilly

 

[reddogge]

Pleasing color.

 

[dallas10c]

Is your gun from a Traditions Kentucky kit? I got for Christmas as a gift and was wondering if you got a schemtaic with it? Not sure how to join the 2 stock parts together. PM me if you can with how you did it.

thanks

 

[gacitizen]

The gun itself looks very good. That reddish brown is from vinegar and barbwire!

Very nice

 

[boar]

Yes. And only takes a little. I scraped the butt part becuase I got it to dark. I haven't done any thing to the barrel, just letting it rust by its self. Now this is just a cheap piece of wood. They say it is beachwood. Somebody did one with curly maple and I was real nice. Just cut up some rusty barbwire and cover with vinegar. Mine has been working for a year, still eating up the wire. Dilly

 

[gacitizen]

Well thats a pretty good finding.

Was the vinegar white or apple?

I made some stain with white vinegar and steel wool, turned the scrap piece of maple a funky blueish-grey.

I'll have to give it another whirl with the barbed wire and see if I can duplicate what you have done here.

 

[boar]

I used white vinegar. When it got down I just added more. Mine had a bunch of sediments at bottom so I fished out the wire and put in new vinegar in another container and it is foaming good. My buddy said I could of stained my traps with the sediments, but I had dumped them out. Some of the wire in bottom wasn't eat up very much like the ones on top of sediment. I should have stirred it more I guess. Dilly

 

[gacitizen]

From the looks of things I would say you did everything right, sediment or not.

Thanks for the info.

 

[50cal.cliff]

Looks good Dilly! What I can see of it, for some reason there is about three pics I can't see!

 

[boar]

There's 6 pictures in all. The boy put them on for me as he has camera and knows how. Sorry. The gun looks the same, no changes. Dilly

 

[50cal.cliff]

Now that's wierd earlier today all I could see was like every other pic there all showing now. Dang Gremlins! :rotf: :rotf:
Anyway I really like how that turned out Dilly. I got some stale coffe, white vinegar, and the ole square concrete nails coooking. Been working now about three months, every so often I skim the crud on top and looselys cap to let her work some more!

 

[boar]

The Amish blacksmith said the barbwire was good becuase it contained carbon. This came off of this forum. I just shake the mixture to get rid of the foam on top. Let us know how yours turns out. Dilly