Refinished AK stocks

[jerrymrc]

I like red.

[CrufflerSteve]

What color does the thai seedlac end up being if applied by itself?

Shellac.net describes it as: "Rich Red Amber
Thai Seedlac (a/k/a Siam Seed lac) has rich warm Red amber tones, excellent for use on rosewoods, mahogany, or redwood. Intermix with other shellacs to adjust color or impart warm tones."

It is pretty subtle. I've only used the blend and it is pretty light. I tried a piece of poplar to see how it works and it didn't darken it much but looked good.

Steve

[CrufflerSteve]

I like red.

I do like it also, just was making more of a Russian look here. I have a Romy underfolder in the queue. I'll experiment with less brown and more red for the handguards.

Steve

[jreifsch80]

those pictures of steve's romy stocks don't do them justice, in person they are beautifull, looks alot like russian izzy finish, for the blood red tula type finish i've seen where guys use the pine tar and then i think just many many coats of garnet shelac. i am going to experiment with that on a romy stock i sanded down and a virgin polish hg set.

edit: blood red might be lots of coats of thai seedlac after the "dark" version of pinetar instead of garnet tough i'm working from memory from some threads on the ak forum i've been studying so cut me some slack if my memory is not correct also i have experimented before with staining a stock set with iodine and after a million coats it got a very deep blood red color too with orange hues looked awesome with some coats of amber shelac