I'm refinishing that T/C Hawkins I mentioned in an earlier post. I browned a new barrel once during my early teen years and it turned out very nice. Now I'm looking at this mess I've created and hoping that my memory serves me right in my hunch that it takes 2 or 3 applications to get a nice, even chocolate brown finish.

What tips can you give me between now and tomorrow night when I plan to finish the iron pieces of this rifle?

I'm using Birchwood Casey Plum Brown, the same stuff I used almost 20 years ago.

Thanks,

Fritz

It was a long time ago when I did mine, but if I remember right, after you applied the stuff, you took steel wool and sanded it smooth again because each coat you put on made the barrel a little darker, but it also actually rusts the barrel a little each time. I still have some somewhere in the house. I should find it and give my old Renegade a new coat or two.. hope the rifle turns out nice the way you want it to