Standing Wolf
Member in memoriam
I could use some High Road out of the box expertise.
I’m attaching two views of the stocks on my pre-agreement Smith & Wesson model 41. Randall Fung made the stocks for me several years ago of maple. They fit my hand just fine. I didn’t care for the finish, which was glossy and yellowed the wood, so I stripped it, then powered up my Dremel tool to touch up the stippling, then applied a thin coat of tung oil.
I’d read several posts about skate board tape, so I bought some to stick on the front of the grip frame. It helped. I put some more on the heel rest. It helped even more. I put more skate board tape on the sides of the stocks, and promptly shot a 270 slow fire out of 300 possible. That may not be everybody’s idea of a prize-winning score, but it was quite an improvement on my usual ±250.
The skate board tape is ugly, and doesn’t stick very well on curves. I’d like to remove it, spread a layer of glue on the wood, and sprinkle on X to give me the same gritty, sandpapery texture. My first thought was to use sand, of course. Unfortunately, sand isn’t as sharp-edged as the stuff on skate board tape. If you look at sand through a jeweller’s loupe, you can see the edges are wear-smoothed. I’m looking for a substance I can glue to wood that would have about the same texture and hardness and durability as medium-coarse sandpaper.
Ideas, anybody? Thanks, eh?
I’m attaching two views of the stocks on my pre-agreement Smith & Wesson model 41. Randall Fung made the stocks for me several years ago of maple. They fit my hand just fine. I didn’t care for the finish, which was glossy and yellowed the wood, so I stripped it, then powered up my Dremel tool to touch up the stippling, then applied a thin coat of tung oil.
I’d read several posts about skate board tape, so I bought some to stick on the front of the grip frame. It helped. I put some more on the heel rest. It helped even more. I put more skate board tape on the sides of the stocks, and promptly shot a 270 slow fire out of 300 possible. That may not be everybody’s idea of a prize-winning score, but it was quite an improvement on my usual ±250.
The skate board tape is ugly, and doesn’t stick very well on curves. I’d like to remove it, spread a layer of glue on the wood, and sprinkle on X to give me the same gritty, sandpapery texture. My first thought was to use sand, of course. Unfortunately, sand isn’t as sharp-edged as the stuff on skate board tape. If you look at sand through a jeweller’s loupe, you can see the edges are wear-smoothed. I’m looking for a substance I can glue to wood that would have about the same texture and hardness and durability as medium-coarse sandpaper.
Ideas, anybody? Thanks, eh?
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