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Staining Osage

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Eric Krewson:
Wipe household ammonia on your wood and it will darken instantly.

I build flintlock rifles, we commonly use a ferric nitrate stain on maple to bring out the figure in the wood, I tried it on several bow woods to see what happened. This stain is applied wet, allowed to dry and heated to cause the stain to react with tannins in the wood to produce the final color.

Hickory, a very pleasing color;



Osage light coat; I think, this may be a picture of osage with the the stain just applied before I blushed it with heat, I don't remember.



Osage heavy coat, blushed with heat.

Muskyman:
Thanks for the info. I値l definitely have to try some sample pieces and see if I like any of them. I知 getting to the point where I知 either going to have to stain it or put the tru oil on it.

Muskyman:
I had some fiebings dye so I tested it on a piece and it looked okay so I stained a little bow I致e been fooling with. Also put a jute handle on it. Turned out okay.

TimBo:
Looks good!

Muskyman:
4th coat of tru-oil   Tru-oil really shows any tool marks or imperfections. This is a backup bow I have been working on for the junior bow trade. My trade bow is still in the works.
I think it痴 about 65 inches long and 45-46 lbs. shoots pretty good, seems fairly fast. I知 going to stain the jute handle wrap and put a Massey finish on it
If the trade bow fails I値l send this one to my recipient.

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