Using Aquafortis for the first time on my latest flintlock pistol build | The Liberty Pistol

[@TheHandToolery]

The color turned out quite nice!

[@TheIronRam]

I think so too! Thank you.

[@JJE-qk8wm]

I like the color, awesome job.

[@seand3103]

Turned out pretty righteous! 👍🏻

[@jackblackpowderprepper4940]

You didn't show it in the video but did you kill the aqua fortis when you got your desired tone?. If you didn't eventually the stock will go black. I stain all my blackpowder firearms with aqua fortis but it must be neutralized. Using baking soda and water or household ammonia. I use both to make sure it's dead. Beautiful gun.

[@usnchief1339]

You would be dangerous if you knew what you were doing:) You did a great job with that finish! A pistol like that is on my future projects list. I hope i live long enough to get through that list of mine.

[@TheIronRam]

You and me both! It’s a long list

[@terryfrye3389]

Get me wanton one

[@mylife6453]

Now try a 1704 Violin varnish overcoat with dragons blood. 7 coats air dry over a weeks time then an oil finish with hardener in it to seal the varnish.

[@giuseppe4909]

Garbage in, garbage out. For God’s sake man, don’t do finish work on a dirty dusty workbench. Learn the properties of the chemicals you’re using. I mean damn, you put how many coats of aqua fortis on there, never heated it up properly and too impatient to apply the correct finish over that to allow for the real color to come out. Maybe study things a bit more and experiment on scrap pieces first....

[@wildrangeringreen]

i've never understood why people mess with that poisonous crap in the first place. It only really has good effect on white woods, is highly corrosive to metals, and was never all that popular outside of North America at any time, let alone when these guns were first made. It would have been very hard to get, and therefore, expensive to get Ferric Nitrate (green iron oxide, the most commonly available source of Nitric Acid at the time); as it isn't a stable compound in most temperatures humans are willing to live in. We've used dyes, paints, and stains on wood since at least the bronze age... I don't know why that isn't good enough lol. he's wet-sanding between coats of oil, so a little dust won't hurt too much, as long as he takes it to a clean spot for the final coats. What do I know though, my guns, except for the first couple, have virtually all been laminate stocks with a toasted coloration and oil/waxed finish,