Rope Burn

[avery]

Anyone ever heard of wraping a rope around a stock top to bottom & lighting it on fire to leave a tiger stripe around the stock?
If so do I do this before I stain the stock?
Also what is the method to do this burn?
Thanks in advance.

 

[wayne terry]

tried it once on a hawk handle didn't get the results I wanted, tried some cannon fuse like the way it worked better, got some better results using a propane torch on a hawk handle, someone will come on in a bit a give some better ideas i would like to know myself.

 

[Birddog6]

Yes. :rotf: :idunno: Well... Yes & No. I dang sure didn't try it on a stock, I tried it on some pieces of scrap from a stock.

Looked just exactly like I thought it would work..... :thumbsup: It looks just like someone wrapped a stock with a piece of rope & set it on fire.
And wrapping a wire around one & heating it red hot did the same result.....
And wrappin one with a toaster element wire looks like it was toasted, etc...... :rotf:
And painting them on looked painted as well... :grin:

Fake is fake, & seldom can you fool someone that knows what they are looking at.

I have seen 1-2 jobs that were faux striped very well, and it only took the guy 30 years of testing & trying to perfect it... :rotf:

It can be done, but it will fool very few...... :nono:

Keith Lisle

 

[bassfan586]

I have tried painting and the rope burn. This method is the best looking in my opinion.
Do it before you stain. I use bare coper wire from romex.(14 gauge?) Wrap it around the stock about 1/8"-1/4" apart. It can vary. Then take a plumbers torch adjust the flame to low and play it around the wire. Keep the flame off the stock. You want to scorch the wood not catch it on fire. It will do this fast if you dont pay attention. Let wire cool and slide up the stock. Repeat. When finished burnish with 0000 steel wool. Stain as you wish.

 

[galamb]

A quick look at Track of the Wolf shows that a "plain" maple full-stock "blank" sells for 94 bucks.

A "grade 4", curl over 100% "desirable" stock blank sells for 122 bucks.

The time to "put the stripes on" is at the point of purchase.

As Keith notes, the "faux" methods, and there are a few, look fake and crappy no matter how they are done.

Mother Nature seems to be the only one who has mastered the technique...

I would rather have a well finished plain stock than a "everybody can tell it's fake from 100 feet away" striped stock.

 

[Pete G]

Back in the 70's there were a lot of guns that were given the stripe treatment. This was the time when a lot of folks put together a kit gun in order to save money. Most were not gun builders. I can't recall a single one that looked good.

 

[Vaino]

Leman {Lehmann} faux striped some of his rifles and if you really want to do it, here's how. The maple stock has to be stained and sealed before brushing on the black ink stripes w/ a fine tipped painter's brush or the wood will act as a blotter and ink will spread out in the wood. After the ink is dry, a final finish is applied over the entire stock including the ink stripes.

I agree...buy a nice, curly piece of maple and forget the faux striping......unless you're duplicating a Leman w/ the faux stripes.....Fred

 

[Hawgeye]

I just refinished a rifle that had been striped with a torch. After removing the charring, I found the wood to be harder to work, stain and finish because of the heat from the technique's affect on the grain structure. The stock is somewhat presentable now but the area of original charring is still visible as very blotchy and muddy looking. I have used differing stain applications to give an effect of grain structure, and if done well and not too closely examined, will approximate a figured stock. Having said that, IMHO there is no substitute for a well figured piece of wood. :v

 

[mooman76]

I tried one buy painting that didn't work out. I had hoped that if I painted some stripes and feather sanded would get the effect. I then tried a parker which worked pretty good. At a distance it looks real but up close, easy to tell.

I have a real old ML that looks like someone did it to it. It looks good but it gets allot of the look from age more so than the burning.

 

[avery]

Thanks all....think I will forget this notion.

 

[necchi]

Anyone ever heard of wraping a rope around a stock top to bottom & lighting it on fire

You realize that the only places that won't get burnt will be under the rope,, right?

 

[Zonie]

The way I look at this is, if it worked well, Leman would have used it on the rifles he built in the mid 1800's.

He didn't.

Instead, his company painted the stripes on the stock using a special paint brush that had several (7 seems to be the number) little tufts of bristles.

I'm not sure anyone really knows what he used as a fluid but some say it was India Ink.