Stock burning

[Confused.45]

Is stock burning prior to staining still done, or is it something of the past.
Thank you

 

[Alexander Efremenko]

Not on anything that's worth anything....
First question is why?

 

[tenngun]

My dad taught me to torch pine to bring out the figure. There has been an old wives tail that tiger stripe maple was actually burned. Ofcorse not true, but my dad leaned this burning to stain wood somewhere.
So maybe a toasted wood was at some time not uncommon. Pretty much unneeded for gun stocks.

 

[Col. Batguano]

Stock burning is something I do if my build turns out to be particularly hideous and unfixable otherwise.

 

[russellshaffer]

I have one that could use the Colonel's treatment. I need to make a new one and that is exactly what will happen to the old stock.

 

[Oldtimerbow]

I used to do it on the old Kentucky cva kits and if done right they can look pretty good. One of my nephews is still hunting with one that he and I did together when when he was 16.

 

[Tom Compton]

I only use it to stripe ram rods. Wrap the rod w strip of leather gapped to your preference and grab the propane touch.

 

[kansas_volunteer]

In the book Checkering and Carving Gunstocks by Monte Kennedy, if I'm remember his name correctly, there is a description of coloring tiger stripe maple using a flame. I think what happens is the exposed end grain in the strpes toasts a bit more than the harder stripes and creates the contrast. I think if those using the scortching process understood what we know today about bringinging out the beauty of stripped maple they would have foregone the flame.