The TC Hawken shown below is walnut and seeing it's straight grained w/o any highlights, stained it dark. In daylight, it's a dark chocolate brown.
The first application is 2 coats of wipe on/wipe off LMF sealer w/ a 10 min soak for each coat and then when dry, a good scrubbing w/ 0000 steel wool to remove any surface finish and then 2 thin coats of Wahkon Bay Trucoat applied w/ the fingers.
This yields a very dull finish which I like for hunting.......Fred
The first application is 2 coats of wipe on/wipe off LMF sealer w/ a 10 min soak for each coat and then when dry, a good scrubbing w/ 0000 steel wool to remove any surface finish and then 2 thin coats of Wahkon Bay Trucoat applied w/ the fingers.
This yields a very dull finish which I like for hunting.......Fred