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Posted by Marty Klier
on 3/26/2009, 8:35 am, in reply to "painted stocks"
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Mike;
Painted stocks were common on sea service muskets, but I am not aware of many civilian firearms that saw such finishing. On the sea service muskets the metal was painted as well, usually black. The paint that was used was a heavy enamel type paint. I would suspect that milk paint might have been used on civilian firearms since that was probably the most common paint of that time. Milk paint wouldn't preserve the metal though, and might not even stick to metal.
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: iwant to build a fowler 1730-1760 and am
: considering to paint the stock. i have read
: accounts of painted stocks in colonial
: times. i just wanted the opinion of some
: more individuals to see how historically
: acurate this metod of stock finishing would
: be.
: can anyone suggest how to finish the
: stock by using paint.
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