Hi All:

I've had this rifle sitting around for a while, until I got a few other projects out of the way.

For starters, what is going on with the wood here? The butt stock is walnut, the handguard is beech, but what is the forend? It's very dark, almost black in color. This rifle has been completely cleaned, and has no stain; it only has a light coat of BLOicon as of these photos.

I've ready many, many posts about color matching, staining, oil finishes, etc. I was just going to stain the handguard in walnut, and then finish everything with velvit oil. I'd like to get a red tint, so it's closer to what I started with.

Any thoughts? Thanks in advance.
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