Acid Stain

[Jake St. John]

Heard some mention acid staining on here.  Anyone want to reveal what they use, or is this a trade secret?

[Bulldogmikey]

John, Charlie Parrish will share it with you I am sure. Drop him a PM..

Mike

[jmck]

Product that I found is #16860-Wahkon Bay AQUAFORTIS --found it here:
http://muzzleloaderbuilderssupply.com/cgi-bin/mbscart/agora.cgi?product=Gun-Finishes.
I have been wanting to make one with it but I think my checkered boxes will be off color in the checkering. Have ment to do a solid sided box to try it with....did a few test samples and it was not hard to do---seemed to be a slight darker tint than the color Charlie gets from whatever he uses.
His color is great and bette in my opnion....tends to be towards that goldish color.....the tiger stripes with this agent tends to be a little darker, may have just been the time I left the heat gun on it.

Charlie is the master on this for sure !!!!

[shad309]

jmck- you can do up one of those checkered boxes and if you don't like it you can send it my way. Being that you didn't like it and it's a junk call I can swap you a quaker boy junk call  I will be sure to give it a happy home   

[Porter]

jmck- you can do up one of those checkered boxes and if you don't like it you can send it my way. Being that you didn't like it and it's a junk call I can swap you a quaker boy junk call  I will be sure to give it a happy home   

You know, you shouldn't tempt ole Mr. Knee Pad... he was using a Squealing Hen all last season for all the wrong reasons 

I had to tell him it was for turkey hunting, not trying to influence the girls of TN.... 

[GR8CALLS]

Jeff

Stain the call first...and then do the checkering.

Bill

[Bulldogmikey]

Jeff

Stain the call first...and then do the checkering.

Bill

Bill the Boy is from Tennessee......don't overload his mind......



Mike

[letinmfly]

Jeff

Stain the call first...and then do the checkering.

Bill

I'm not sure that the stain will penetrate deep enough anyway to allow for the checkering to look evenly stained.  Why not just make the call without checkering, especially if it's Tiger Maple?  It'll look better IMO!! 

[Goober]

Calls don't need checkering anyway!!

[Porter]

Calls don't need checkering anyway!!

Hey now, they reduce the weight of my calls 

I do agree, some woods look better non checkered!

[Dcoleinpa]

Checkering reminds me of Marky Mark and the funky bunch......... Good vibrations 

[jmck]

Guess ya never really know intil ya try it----maybe shad309---sense he didnt mention my knee pads ....nor overloading my simple Tennessee mind---has a good idea !!!
Porter....ya actuall wrote two lines without a Porter'ism.........

[Porter]

Checkering reminds me of Marky Mark and the funky bunch......... Good vibrations 

Oh my I figured you were way too young for that Mr. Dillon 

[Porter]

Jeff

Stain the call first...and then do the checkering.

Bill

Bill I think he was trying to stain his knee pads    

[jmck]

Porter----they all have been told ya have two pairs ready for next season-----come on out of the closet man !!!!
Anybody that would carry a load of those YELLER calls would do anything else he thinks may help him call in a blind bird !!!