Question about staining gun stocks

[moewadle]

with real walnut. When I was a kid on an Iowa farm we had some black walnut trees so I became familiar with how the green hull over the nut turns dark and soft in the fall and exudes this very staining juice of course. I remember some walnuts falling in an old tub under one tree and the rain water in the tub became, of course, walnut stain color. Now, I know this would be a lot of trouble but if a person were in to doing "buckskinning" type of activities it might be sort of fun to color some gun naturally. I am not a big project person on guns but I am now on my 2nd inexpensive, used .22 (Stevens 89 from later 70s or so) stripped the wood and refinishing the inexpensive wood with Birchwood Case products.

 

[mete]

Never tried it on wood , but it certainly stains skin and it can't be removed. !!

 

[jondar]

I bet it would work. When I was a little kid there was a product called "Mrs. Somebody's (can't remember the name) Walnut Hair Coloring." It supposedly contained the stain from the hull around the walnut. I wonder if maybe some of the hair colors today contain that stain. Good cheap source. The only downer is, like someone noted, get it on your skin and it's there to stay. You might try a little of it on your rifle stock somewhere it doesn't show, like the barrell channel.

 

[moewadle]

Just a thought

however. It does get your skin because we had to process walnuts as a kid. But it is not a tattoo. If you live with it it is gone in a few days due to the natural process of your outer skin sluffing off dead cells. M

 

[brickeyee]

It makes an adequate natural stain.
Soak hulls in watter with a little denatured alcohol, then experiment on some scrap wood of the same type.

 

[Chawbaccer]

Check out Dixie, they have it for 34 bucks a two ounce bottle.