Burn pattern on a stock?

[Zonie]

Yes. Lyman used plain maple and his company painted the stripes on a lot of the guns they sold.

I forget if they used 6 or 7 short tufts of bristles on each brush but I recall that those who study the Lyman guns saw a repeat of the patterns spacing leading them to the conclusion that the number seemed to be standardized.

The multi-tufted brushes were used to apply a very dark stain like India Ink.

 

[Tony Logan]

My experience with a charred stock was not planned. I grew up in a small town and we didnt have a lot of real gunsmiths. still dont. once I made a mistake of taking my new remington bdl with a very nice walnut stock to one of these gun butchers. He used a torch to remove a scope base that had frozen mounting screws. I was a teenager but I knew he did not know what the heck he was doing when the wood started changing colors and smoking. It was charred well below the finish and into the wood. I could not stand looking at it. I finally had to get a synthetic stock. BTW he was also a police officer, so i just paid him and thanked him for screwing up my gun. Now if he had put a torch on one of my flinters, well lets just try not to even think about it.