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How is the checkering finished on a new stock that has been stained?.
Cody
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gingerly?
Checkering seems to take up stain and darken quicker than the polished stock wood. I start with a stain that's about 20% strength of the stock stain by adding 80% solvent. Naptha for Minwax type stains, MEK for the spirit stains. You can always add color to darken the checkering a bit at a time.
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Yeti is spot on. Light on the first coat and add with due caution. I have first hand experience of having checkering almost look black from full strength stain! Best to thin the finish and apply with a medium artist brush after staining.
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i triple that. is very easy to get checkering too dark. another problem i had (and i checker after the stock is finished) is one stain i used on time ate tru-oil. i had a real mess. it wasn't pilkington but was another type brownells sells, maybe the USGI red stuff. try to mask off the checkering and not get the stain on the finished part of the stock any more than you have to. i know pilkingtons doesn't bother stock finishes. you might experiment on a test sample first.
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I've had luck adding a few drops of minwax stain to a tablespoon of 50/50 Tru-Oil/mineral spirits. The end result should be slightly lighter than the stock finish, as is the normal look on unstained work. The Tru -Oil seals the checkering, is tinted slightly already, and at the 50/50 dilution, does not fill in the grooves.
A little age will do the rest.
Jim
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