Another Stock Painting Thread, Stone Textured

Just finished painting an OEM Gen 2 Accustock for my Savage 16 in .260 Rem.
First I roughed up the stock with sandpaper, and sprayed it with plastic primer. I tried the stone textured granite colored paint from Valspar as a base, and added some stripes of tan and black satin I had on hand to add a bit of camo effect. I sprayed a couple coats of clear satin sealer to help it be more durable.
The paint really adds to the grip factor, will have to see how it holds up to wear.

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looks good.

That looks pretty cool. Do you hunt in snow a lot?

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Originally Posted by rattfink

That looks pretty cool. Do you hunt in snow a lot?

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Yeah, some. But mostly from a poplar treestand with a sky background. I thought a lighter colored base may work out better than the original black tupperware.

I thought that might be why you put the tree in the background ;)

Very nice! Had mine Hydro-dipped.
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I use tectured paint as the base coat. Then I use various colors in flat, satin and gloss to build up depth. I use gloss and satin because there are shiny leaves in nature. I use a laundry bag on top of the base coat to get the fishnet pattern to break up the open areas. Then I used negative and positive cutouts of leaf pattern to give it some depth. The leaf cutouts were were more of the different colors come from.

Here is one of the first ones I did:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...e/IMG_1016.jpg
Turned out to be a little too dark for my area so I started over and used a lighter base coat.

too dark? Maybe, but still pretty cool, dol.

I bought a Marlin 45-70 levergun from a guy that had used the spray-can version of the bed liner. he did about 6 coats on it. The only negative, was it was over a wood stock, but that stuff is hard as rock. I think it will take more beating than the stock itself will.

If ya wanted a REALLY durable coating, use that stuff and then paint to suit.

I like the "desert" stock look you did. even it it wasn't supposed to be desert. Nice open pattern, not too busy.

I saw some similar stuff at Cabelas, a non skid coating for the bottom of boats etc. I gave that a thought. If this doesn't work out who knows?