Painting a stock.

[Mark E. Prickett]

And more history on them.
https://www.claysmithguns.com/Blue_Trade_Gun.htm

 

[Comfortably_Numb]

That blue is a little too electric for me. There were all colors of trade guns. Blue, red, yellow, and white with polka dots. There were also guns with vines painted on them.

 

[James Dietz]

I believe the Indian in the foreground of the "Death of Wolfe" painting has a painted stock. I seem to recall reading an old article about a guy that recreated it. Very cool looking. I like the blue painted stocks very much!

 

[Surfinator58]

I painted my Antonio Zoli Remington's wife to make it look more. Correct

 

[Philip Lebow]

Gents, fortunately, no one has ever asked my shop to Cerakote a wooden stock. We are factory trained coaters. Glad that air dry Cerakote is little known! Yeah, we do plastic and metal stocks in Cerakote. But it bakes on....
We have a certain reverence for wood, as my other stockmaker, and myself are old.....
I DID paint a stock once, many years ago. A customer brought in a rotted stock from an old lever action that he had "restored" with Bondo and Marine Tex. Wanted it refinished "like new". I demurred, but he insisted. I painted it with a custom mix of automotive enamel to look like walnut, with some black and dark brown lines drawn into the wet surface
Customer was very happy, to my surprise.

 

[waksupi]

I'm a big fan of boiled linseed oil.

I tested over a dozen different finishes when working for a rifle company, Linseed is the worst you can use. The only reason the military used it, it was cheap, and they could dip stocks in it easily.