If you don't already have a copy, try purchasing "the Modern Kentucky rifle" by RH McCrory. I beleive he is long since deceased and wrote the book in the early 1950's, but it's still one of hte best step-by-step references out ther eon how to build a longrifle using traditional methods. This is one of the processes he outlines.



Most of the modern stuff like Aqua-Fortis or Chromium Trioxide are modern chemical treatments designed to replicate these older and more time-consuming methods. When I start the next step, we will turn the stock almost black, but it will retain these brown-red undertones from the Nitric Acid staining.