hi,
i am about to get my CZ back from the smith. bedded and a rear action screw installed.a set of bkl rings are in transit as well. it is the microfit stock i buggered up a while back and had to put a different(unmatching) forend tip on to be legal. i am not thrilled with the mismatch,allthough the contours are to my liking. i was thinking of painting it with sand or stone look paint. should i mask off the bedding? paint the whole thing and seal it up? what to do what to do?

Jason, i believe you did a similar finish to your CZ that was blue? any pic's?

dave

By all means mask off the bedding! You should have a perfect fit between action and stock that you want to protect, especially if you're using a thick, textured finish.

Yes, I did a gloss blue with clearcoat finish originally. It was way more trouble that it was worth and was too slippery anytime there was the smallest amount of sweat or oil on my hands/face. I cleaned some of those layers off and used the green texture paint that works much better. You definitely want to mask off the bedding and make sure anything you add to the stock doesn't touch the barreled action anywhere and add pressure. When I painted my stock with the thicker texture paint, I actually used a similar color of normal (thin) spray paint for the barrel channel to make sure nothing would touch the barrel.

thanks guys, that is just the info i was looking for.

best
dave

13,
Definitely mask off the bedding. If you want to go through the trouble, there is a special tape made by 3M that you can get at auto body supply stores, lime green in color, with a special glue that doesn't leave residue on the stocks, especially the rubber recoil pad. I use it to mask of all the guns/stocks/scopes that I duracoat, and have had wonderful results.

Also, FYI, the Krylon Fusion paints designed to stick to plastics/synthetics, they really work as advertised, and you can get them in textured finishes at most hardware stores. That's what I would recommend.