After talking with Rip this morning about the upcoming set of grips, he got me wondering about stipling and he peeked my curiosity, so after a little research, I decided to try my hand at stipling an old walnut Rossi youth combo stock and forend that I always felt was for too plain for as pretty as it was.
So, I used my favorite shotgun as the template by laying a piece of paper over the checkering and traced it by rubbing a pencil over it to get the rough outline, then used a pair of scissors to cut it out.
Afterwards, I rubbed some craft stick glue to the back of the paper pattern and placed it on the stock where I wanted it and traced the outline with a knife to give me an guide so I can stay in the lines when I start stipling.
Just to take it up another notch, I made an arrowhead design into the handguard pattern as well because I figured if I was going this far, I may as well have some kind of decoration in there and the arrowhead just seemed to fit.
After about a gazillion and three strokes with the dremel, the forend stipling pattern was done. Here it is straight after the dremel.
Next up was each side of the butt stock. They didn't take as long. Maybe 20 minutes per side.
Now that all of the stipling is complete, to give it a subdued look so the fresh wood wouldn't be such a stark contrast in color, I rubbed baby oil over the entire stock to blend it all back in together.
It drastically improved the feel of the gun.
All in all, I think it turned out pretty good and the entire thing took around 2 hours to complete.
This was so easy, even I could do it
But in all seriousness, it was easy to do. Just a little time consuming.
So, I used my favorite shotgun as the template by laying a piece of paper over the checkering and traced it by rubbing a pencil over it to get the rough outline, then used a pair of scissors to cut it out.
Afterwards, I rubbed some craft stick glue to the back of the paper pattern and placed it on the stock where I wanted it and traced the outline with a knife to give me an guide so I can stay in the lines when I start stipling.
Just to take it up another notch, I made an arrowhead design into the handguard pattern as well because I figured if I was going this far, I may as well have some kind of decoration in there and the arrowhead just seemed to fit.
After about a gazillion and three strokes with the dremel, the forend stipling pattern was done. Here it is straight after the dremel.
Next up was each side of the butt stock. They didn't take as long. Maybe 20 minutes per side.
Now that all of the stipling is complete, to give it a subdued look so the fresh wood wouldn't be such a stark contrast in color, I rubbed baby oil over the entire stock to blend it all back in together.
It drastically improved the feel of the gun.
All in all, I think it turned out pretty good and the entire thing took around 2 hours to complete.
This was so easy, even I could do it
But in all seriousness, it was easy to do. Just a little time consuming.
