I'm A Dip - Before & After

[Pete44ru]

A few months ago, I posted about this funky .22 roller LGS find, I jumped on for short money.



Well, I finally decided I really didn't like the grey, so here's Mama's new shoes





I had the stock(s) dipped in a woodgrain pattern I chose, aka hydrographic camo dipping.

The result reminds me of a very blonde Birdseye Maple stock I inherited on a sporterized 1903 Springfield, that I promptly stained darker, keeping the birdseye figure.

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[3leggedturtle]

I liked it b4, but its even better looking now

[Pitchy]

I like it too, makes it real unique.

[COSteve]

I considered that for my AR before I got the walnut stock set. I'd be interested in hearing about how well it holds up to wear.

[Old Savage]

Cool gun - what is it??

[AJMD429]

Fooled me - I thought it was real wood...!

[gamekeeper]

Cool gun - what is it??

+ 1...

[jnyork]

Impressive! Could you tell us a little more about this process, how it is done, where it is done, by who, etc? Thanks

[2ndovc]

Impressive! Could you tell us a little more about this process, how it is done, where it is done, by who, etc? Thanks

Please!

Looks great!

jb

[Pete44ru]

Thank you all.

I posted several pics a few months ago : http://www.levergunscommunity.com/viewt ... er#p502880

It's a totally unmarked, un-numbered, black powder #1 size Rolling Block, with a RF breechblock conversion, a rebarrel, and a RB carbine rear sight.

But, briefly, I stumbled it in an LGS on my home from a funshow for short money, & bought it because of the funky looks & because I was told it had been rebarreled to .22 Short.

Right.

After I got it home, the logo "Savage 982 DL - .22LR" was on the barrel bottom when I removed the forend, and while the bore was pristine, the chamber was crusty - leading me to a chamber scrub & feeding in a LR shell.
Evidently, somebody fired a lot of Shorts & never cleaned the fouling ring from the forward portion of the chamber. DOH.
I got tired of the gray paint soon enough, and looked into woodgrain dipping - a spinoff of hrdrographic camo film dipping.
(15 years ago, I had Bell & Carlson camo dip a black synthetic Remington 7 stock in Realtree with great sucess)

As luck would have it, Borreson Outdoors ( http://www.filmdipping.com ) was having an online "special" ($75), so I called the proprietor, Jon - who promised a 2-3 week turnaround. I USPS Priority mailed ($7.95) the stock set w/MO ASAP in March, after selecting one of the woodgrains on his website.

I just got the stock set back (8 weeks), and he's done an excellent job - I just wish he would have told me up front that, where camo dipping was a snap, woodgrain alignment was fussy, often requireing a redux or two.(before I got P.O.'d at the long delay)

For those interested in the process, if you google "camo stock dipping", there are a few websites with videos & how-to's for those so inclined.

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[ollogger]

Thats dang nice Pete I like it
Birds Eye on the 03 thats cool

ollogger

[awp101]

My oh MY! That's a good looking piece of wood! Errr, film dipping... Either way, I REALLY like it!

I'd be interested in hearing about how well it holds up to wear.

Me too. There's a pair of Martinis in the safe that need something like this and maybe a Mauser project or two.

Does the pattern have any "depth" as if you were looking at a real piece of oiled wood?

[Hagler]

Pete,

That faux wood looks very good. It really changes the charater of your rifle. You chose a very nice motif, for that old rolling block.

Shawn

[Ysabel Kid]

Fooled me - I thought it was real wood...!

Me too!

[FWiedner]

If you like it, that's good enough.

An interesting process with an impressive reuslt.

Personally, I get dizzy looking at that much 'figure.'

[Chuck 100 yd]

SWEET FOR SURE !!

[toby]

How tough is the dip finish?

[Rusty]

That's pretty!

[Pete44ru]

Thanx again, all, for the kind words - I appreciate them.

While I have no idea how durable THIS film/dip from Borreson Outdoors will be ( since this is the 1st time I used them, & only got the job back Wednesday), I CAN tell you a few things about the results from other companies.

The 1st time I got the idea was 15-20 years ago, when I traded into a 7mm-08 Remington Model Seven with a ratty-looking plain black issue synthetic stock - which gun I knew I wasn't going to keep.

I had spotted the camo dip offered by Bell & Carlson (The camo stock folks), their recently discontinued "Special Effects" - and sent the black stock in to be dipped in RealTree.
I got it back 3 weeks & $60 later, and it looked & performed perfectly !
I liked it SO much, it ended up being about 2 years of hunting/shooting before I passed the rifle on - looking better than the day I got it.

Regarding film-dipping durability, please consider: ALL the major firearms manufacturers have jumped on the fully-camo'd long gun bandwagon over the last 10 years - literally millions of guns of all sorts, rifles & shotguns, used under some very hard conditions indeed (like waterfowling).

How do you think those firearms got camo'd ?

They were film dipped - it's just that the big boys lately got into the success the little guys were having earlier.

Dontchathink that by now, if film-dipping wasn't durable, Remington, et al, would have discontinued the process, since they have to stand behind it ?

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[Pete44ru]

If you like it, that's good enough.
Personally, I get dizzy looking at that much 'figure.'

Well, there's PLENTY to choose from - the particular company I patronized this time had several different types & colors of woodgrain, besides all the camo patterns, to consider.

It took me a long time, and I was actually leaning towards another provider because I liked one of their woodgrains a bit better - but went with the one I did because it was "on Special" @ $50 cheaper than the competition.

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[awp101]

Can the shine be knocked down a bit? I'm more of a semi-gloss/oiled finish kind of guy.

Yeah, I could ask "them" but you've got the product in yer grubby mitts....

[awp101]

After I got it home, the logo "Savage" & ".22LR" was on the barrel bottom when I removed the forend

Just out of curiosity, any idea which Savage barrel or when it was done? I'm guessing it's not from a Favorite but rather from one of the larger bolt actions?

Yes, an old project idea has been rekindled...

[Pete44ru]

It's a 22" long barrel, stamped: "Savage 982 DL - .22LR ".

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[awp101]

It's a 22" long barrel, stamped: "Savage 982 DL - .22LR ".

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Ah! IIRC those were a bolt action repeater and sometimes sold under the Westernfield banner?

Thanks!