So while I’m waiting for my Lilja barrel to get here (around the end of the month) I figured I’d take my very ugly dull MTR stock and well make it a bit more customized for myself just so it stands out from a “normal” MTR.
Went with a warmer tone of orange “pumpkin orange actually” just for a bit of color that blended with the brown walnut stock. Since my Lilja barrel is SS I decided to go use a metallic silver for the lettering thinking it will be a really nice contrast/blend with it.
I only have 2 coats of gloss finish on it right now but I’m really liking how it’s pulling out the grain in the wood now. The original look of it really was very boring and nothing to look at thus the reason I wanted to add some color just to spruce it up a bit. I’m not sure yet as to if I’m going to keep it a full rubbed out gloss finish or if I’m going to leave it more semi gloss to kinda match the laser engraved textured parts of the stock. We’ll see how it goes.
Anyway to my surprise it really ended up looking really nice, at least I like it. I know the color scheme is probably not up most peoples ally but I guess at least I can say its mine.
Thanks for looking!





Went with a warmer tone of orange “pumpkin orange actually” just for a bit of color that blended with the brown walnut stock. Since my Lilja barrel is SS I decided to go use a metallic silver for the lettering thinking it will be a really nice contrast/blend with it.
I only have 2 coats of gloss finish on it right now but I’m really liking how it’s pulling out the grain in the wood now. The original look of it really was very boring and nothing to look at thus the reason I wanted to add some color just to spruce it up a bit. I’m not sure yet as to if I’m going to keep it a full rubbed out gloss finish or if I’m going to leave it more semi gloss to kinda match the laser engraved textured parts of the stock. We’ll see how it goes.
Anyway to my surprise it really ended up looking really nice, at least I like it. I know the color scheme is probably not up most peoples ally but I guess at least I can say its mine.
Thanks for looking!




