.44 HE Stag Stocks- Antiqued

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I picked up this modified and re-nickeled .44 HE 3rd Model (Wolf & Klar, 1927) for a decent price a few years ago at a local gun show. It was wearing modern magna stocks when I bought it, so I asked Pat Grashorn to fabricate a set of elk stag stocks. Pat always does a great job with stocks, but they just looked a little too white and new for this almost 100-year old revolver. Pat had a couple of suggestions for "aging" the stocks, but mentioned that the methods didn't last very long. I have aged some knife scales in the past using dyes, so I thought that I'd try the same method with these elk stag stocks. Here's the result, and I think they turned out nicely. This was a combination of dabbing on RIT Yellow dye (1:1 with hot water) to get a golden base color, followed by some Fiebing's Pro Walnut dye. Hand buffed, then Ren Wax was applied. Now the stocks look like they've been with the .44 HE for a long time. BTW- I aged those Bowie knife scales with dye some time back, but the Cattaraugus hunting knife has been handed down in my family for 120+ years and it wears its original pinned stag scales.
 

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Wow, nicely done. They look just like the knife scales. If you hadn't told us what you did it would be hard to guess it was done to them.
 
Really nice! The 44 HE is a beauty too.
Thanks for sharing.
Ray
 
Yoour a Lucky Devil aquiring that barrel lemgth
44 3rd type underlugged Smith !! You can def color me jealous ��!! Even if I like blued vs nickle
I woulda tryed snagging it too.
Congrats on the 44 and the stag stock work !!
Best Randy..
 
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