m1 Garand / carbine walnut stain

[900ss]

Does anyone have any appropriate stain for Garand walnut stocks? I refinished a carbine stock some years ago using Feibing's leather dye, and don't want this one to turn as dark.

I bought a CMP (Boyd's) stock off a CMP forum member that was varnished. I have stripped the varnish and it is very light; raw linseed oil (flax oil) will turn it red over time, but I want to accelerate the process. There are many ways of doing this; I do not want to use any varnish, BLO or tung oil on this stock, I just want a head-start on the time it will take for pure linseed oil to redden it.

Dubs, any thoughts on this?

 

[afm199]

Does anyone have any appropriate stain for Garand walnut stocks? I refinished a carbine stock some years ago using Feibing's leather dye, and don't want this one to turn as dark.

I bought a CMP (Boyd's) stock off a CMP forum member that was varnished. I have stripped the varnish and it is very light; raw linseed oil (flax oil) will turn it red over time, but I want to accelerate the process. There are many ways of doing this; I do not want to use any varnish, BLO or tung oil on this stock, I just want a head-start on the time it will take for pure linseed oil to redden it.

Dubs, any thoughts on this?

Linseed oil on wood darkens quite a bit within a few years. But I see that you know that.

 

[900ss]

Thank you. I decided to not stain the pieces and just apply the raw linseed oil. I don't know how long I will own the rifle that will be re-stocked with this, but am very interested to the color progression as long as I do. I'll apply oil every day for a week, then every couple of weeks for a while, then monthly.

My WWII and Korean conflict stocks are a beautiful deep red.