Chemicals in the kitchen...
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Originally Posted by
Jim Tarleton
Lancebear,
I use logwood stain that I make in my kitchen. Didn't I send you some once?
Jim
Jim,
Musta' got lost in the mail. You makin' stuff in the kitchen again?
Thought about your home parkerizing experiment while making some Finnish stock treatment. One third each beeswax, turpentine and pure pine tar.
Started by trying to melt the wax in a glass mixing cup in the microwave. Well it took forever and I finished the job on the stove with the cup in some hot water in a pot. A wax explosion in the microwave would have been a beeotch to clean up. Mixed in the tar and turpentine outside, didn't know if there was any sort of reaction to look out for. None, mixes up easy. Consistency of Johnson's paste wax. It's a treatment for a stock that has been finished already. Use it just like paste wax. Stock feels like it has a bit of rosin on it after you wipe it down. Not sticky but grippy.
Anyway, the Finns I think stained stocks with a fifty fifty mix of pine tar and turpentine. Finished M39 stocks in WWII with a mix of turpentine and linseed oil and whatever. I have three and in normal lighting the colors are honey gold and chocolate. But if you shine a bright light on them you see a red glow. The wood is Arctic Birch and is crazy beautiful.
The wax treatment only adds color to any bright scratches.
Couldn't get an original '03 last year. I looked the whole year. Missed the one I did find. That's why I bought the Finns and am glad I did. Don't feel too guilty.
They have everything that I love about the M1903, looks, accuracy and history. Finely made rifles, and the right price for now.
I didn't put the wax concoction on any '03 wood and won't. Gotta' keep'em real.
Yours in adventures in chemistry,
Lancebear