Highlighting grain in cherry stock

[Buff1958]

I have another Cherry stock coming for my woodsrunner. It has a lot of grain lines in it. The other 2 cherry stocks I have finished I used lime and then chambers oil.
Is there a process I can use to highlight the figure? Something like you do with aqufortis on Maple.

 

[dave_person]

Hi,
Read this thread from start to end. It will explain a lot.

https://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/...gland-connecticut-river-valley-fowler.113074/

dave

 

[Buff1958]

Hi,
Read this thread from start to end. It will explain a lot.

https://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/...gland-connecticut-river-valley-fowler.113074/

dave

thanks but he made that one way darker than I am looking for

 

[rich pierce]

When using chemical stains like AQF or lye, make a solution according to a formula others use. Take a third of that solution and add an equal amount of water. Try this dilute solution first. If not dark enough make a mix of the dilute and full strength. If not dark enough use the full strength solution.

I don’t care for figure in cherry. Plain is good. Just a personal preference. It’s not like curly maple to me.

 

[Norman Brooks]

I used bone black to highlight the grain in this one. Not for sure if it would make the figure pop though. You can experiment on the inside of the barrel channel.

 

[Buff1958]

I used bone black to highlight the grain in this one. Not for sure if it would make the figure pop though. You can experiment on the inside of the barrel channel.

pretty

 

[wiscoaster]

Kibler gave the OP a really nice piece of wood with some very nice figure.

I'd use whatever stain to color as desired and then rely on the oil to make the figure pop. Once the oil is cured, paste wax will make it pop even more in whatever direction the oil started it. The wax can even be tinted to bias the color in whatever other direction is desired.

This is walnut, so not directly applicable, but perhaps an example of wax (in this case brown shoe polish) making the figure pop:
https://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/threads/my-stock-finish-secret-weapon.168153/

I didn't mention it here, but again the final was paste wax:
https://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/threads/yup-fixed-my-pedersoli.167978/

Ordinary paste wax can easily be tinted using Transtint dye. Tinted paste wax also used here:
https://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/...sea-service-pistol-from-loyalist-arms.186013/

 

[centershot]

What Wiscoaster said!