Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: kid bow on August 25, 2016, 04:53:40 am
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So I have built two bows for a couple who are friends of the family. There son has past away a little while ago and he was a dear friend of mine. I want to do a dual stain kinda deal where it's light at the tips and gets darker towards the handle. I'm going to be using a wood burner tool to burn the phrase "for the loving bond between a father and son" in to bow limbs on the belly side and fill them in with a gold paint. Any advice at all for these bows?
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fuming?
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I think that's what it's called. Light color at the tips progressively getting darker.
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That's a sunburst. Stain the whole bow and use 0000 steel wool to fade in the tip color. Or, you can use two colors of stain and do the same thing.
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That's a sunburst. Stain the whole bow and use 0000 steel wool to fade in the tip color. Or, you can use two colors of stain and do the same thing.
Awesome thanks pearly
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If you ask me? One color steel wooled looks best. Try it on arrows to, looks really nice.
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I do my fade jobs with one or two shades of stain and I "drag" the stain from dark to light
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Does anyone have a Youtube link to doing this? I've tried both ways and failed miserably both ways. Maybe if I saw someone do it, it would click in.