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Author Topic: Walnut stain on a Cherry stock  (Read 932 times)

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Walnut stain on a Cherry stock
« on: February 19, 2013, 12:22:35 PM »
Has anyone ever used walnut stain to stain a cherry stock?

I'm thinking about trying it, but I don't have a scrap piece of cherry to experiment with.

Just wondering what it would look like.
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Re: Walnut stain on a Cherry stock
« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2013, 01:47:57 PM »
Rondo, I can say I have stained walnut with cherry, just to get the red.

Can't rightly say how it might go the other way around, but I sure did like the the color of the stock that I ended up with that cherry stain.
If you use a good stain I personally see no reason why it shouldn't take...

The first one I did, walnut to cherry, was on a T/C Hawken...shadow line cheek piece, with contrasting un-stained line for outline.
The second was on a little CVA "Three-Two" Rifle that I got from Maxi-Ball back in the late 90's....Remember Dale?
As with most CVA products, I always suspected their Walnut to be Brazilian Walnut.
In the early days T/C did have some nice figured Walnut and I wouldn't want to do this on real nice wood, and I'm not so sure I would try it on any custom / semi-custom rifle.

Still yet, it's your rifle....do what you darn well please.
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Re: Walnut stain on a Cherry stock
« Reply #2 on: February 19, 2013, 07:18:45 PM »
I have been using Feibling's leather dye, Tandy co. on walnut & maple for sometime now.  The dark brown has a sweet red cast to it over maple.  On walnut it darkens it up some if it's a lite shade of wood. They can be thinned & lightened with alcohol.   ....Tom
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