'Bone Hardening' your ramrod

[CuNosecap]

I have never used an antler but have used a plain old chicken bone many times. Nice work on the grips.
And yes, the grips will still take oil.

 

[Smokey Plainsman]

Can someone actually describe what we’re talking about? As in how to do it?

 

[Frontstuffer070]

Can someone actually describe what we’re talking about? As in how to do it?

You just take bone like an Antler or something and press down and rub back and forth on the wood. You can use anything hard really.

 

[Colonial Boy]

It is amazing what I learn here from you all. So I was piddling in my gun shed today and this thread came to mind. I went and grabbed a set of antlers from the bone bucket and sawed one off and went to town on a T/C Renegade ram rod. Now I had already sanded this thing to 500 but the burnishing with the antler gave the wood a whole new super smooth and and hard texture. I was amazed. About the time I finished the ram rod, the stain dried on a grip I'm doing for a Stainless unmentionable and another post from this thread came to mind. So I went to town on one side of it. Again I was taken back by the result. I took a pic of the side I burnished and the side that was just the stain dried. Again this grip was sanded to 500 then whiskered 3 times. This is simply amazing to me. My only question is, now that I've burnished this grip and smashed and closed the pores so to speak, will it still take some oil to finish?

‘’So I was piddling in my gun shed today and this thread came to. . .’’
I do hope that the meaning is a bit different to the common meaning in Australia .

 

[#blackpowderbill]

Coal oil not coal tar.

 

[Frontstuffer070]

‘’So I was piddling in my gun shed today and this thread came to. . .’’
I do hope that the meaning is a bit different to the common meaning in Australia .

I don't think our meaning of "piddling" are the same.