Painting a stock

[crgchck]

My experience.. the textured didn’t like the clear..was more like a wrinkle paint.. didn’t seem to want to bond well to fiberglass, and remained sorta too soft for a stock.. my experience..
the stone again my experience..
First rifle stock I did..when initially applied I didn’t think it was ever going to cure hard enough to work.. while still softish, I coated it with krylon triple thick glaze.. I don’t know what that did but holy shit it became insanely hard and durable.. it was like the clear soaked in and acted as a catalyst.. after years of running it that way, I later wire brushed it and coated with a matte clear.. the stone paint absorbed the triple thick enough that it didn’t have a gloss finish but it did have a little sheen in certain light. I’ve since recoated the first rifle I did with a different system but did do an xp100 with the stone paint a couple years ago..I did it the same way with the triple thick but never hit it with the matte.. I’ll post a pic of it later today.

Found a pic that I posted on the hide of the two as a pair. this was pre matte on the rifle.

 

[Conman243]

Found a pic that I posted on the hide of the two as a pair. this was pre matte on the rifle. View attachment 937723

Thanks man

 

[Sponxx]

I found a picture of my sponge camo over stone paint.
Factory tupperware Savage stock that I modified. I chopped a few inches up front, raised the comb with a piece of wood and Bondo, as well as created a vertical grip and palmswell with more Bondo a latex glove.
When I bought th gun used, it had grey stone paint, fairly grippy, but I added the sponge camo with Rustoleum paints

 

[5811]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but I did: Less is more with sponge painting.

I just kept adding colors because I had them. Now I'm getting messed up Christmas or Joker vibes

I'd probably like it if I quit after gray and orange. But I added 6 more colors.

 

[TheGDog]

First... lightest base coat color.

Second? ... spray angled stripes w/ your darkest color... thru the lighter base. Only like no more than 3 stripes thru the stock and one thru barrel.

Third. Using your randomized sponge piece... on edges of dark stripes... dither-in blips of lighter color to breakup/diffuse the hard edge of that stripe thru the base color. Bkurring where the dark-edge meets the light edge.

Fourth... in the in-between areas of lighter base color... dither-in... some... amt of darker blips of sponge-dabbing to sorta break-up that wide light-colored area.

And like homeboy here just found out.. "Less is More!" Don't go overboard.. and on the "palette" piece you're holding for doing the sponge-dabbing from.. to pickUP the paint from... dab it a few times on your palette piece so it's NOT wet and gloppy with too much paint on it. You want it tacky-looking when you dab it on. That part is important. You'll see.

Also... like if you try making use of an ash-grey type color... be ready to custom-blend in a drop of a darker color into that light-colored ash-grey... often they come in too light/bright of a shade and stick-out like a sore-thumb when you dab that color on.. so you can tone-it-down by adding like dark earth into it. little-by-little... testing after mixing by blipping the sponge onto a test surface to verify shade you've reached.

Matte Clear Coat. Minimum 2 coats.

 

[huntsman22]

blip that.......

 

[TheGDog]

Actually a phrase I use a lot is "Bump That Noise!" as a more PC replacement for EFF that isht.

 

[WyoWild]

Just finished up a Stockys Carbon VG. Rustoleum camo and Vinyl Stencil. Will let it cure for a week them add a V2K matte clear coat.

 

[TheGDog]

Found a pic that I posted on the hide of the two as a pair. this was pre matte on the rifle. View attachment 937723

Came back thru the posts in here today when my eyes caught this!

Is that a Remington XP100? My StepDad had one of those. Was thinking I want to find one at some point.

What's it chambered in?

 

[crgchck]

Came back thru the posts in here today when my eyes caught this!

Is that a Remington XP100? My StepDad had one of those. Was thinking I want to find one at some point.

What's it chambered in?

Yes.. that one is now a .308 I also have a 7br both are incredibly accurate and I have taken many whitetail with the .308… I’ve only punched paper with the 7br
They are getting hard to find but the center grip single shots are by far better balanced than the rear grip.

 

[Badger 5]

Just painted up the new home Stockys VG Carbon Hunter.

 

[RancherJohn]

@ztc92

Quick rundown of how to easily paint a stock with what you may already have on hand.

Supplies needed:
Paint
Shredded cardboard shipping filler material
Blue tape (for scope/action/etc)



I hit this stock with 2 different tan/sand colors, and let it dry for 15 minutes.



Pick a general orientation to follow, I tend to angle it towards the front of the gun.



Pick a color to start with, spraying very quick/light. Your paint will fill any voids, so fast movement in the orientation of your cardboard will yield results like this.



Get another color, reset your cardboard with a slightly different angle and section to spray through, try to find big patches of the background color (tan in this case) and line them up in your gaps.



Repeat as desired, you can add more of the other colors in additional layers as needed. Move the spray paint to different angles/distances to obtain crisper lines or more of the 'overspray' appearance as desired.



Final result after about 15 minutes of work.