recipe for natural black stain?

[GlisGlis]

just as reference this handle is a kind of oak (tannin rich) stained with iron acetate and then sanded
You can see bot natural and dyed color

[Hawkdancer]

Buckskinner,
A couple dozen should do nicely, if you want to spare that many!  I will pm my address.

Eric Thanks for the alcohol idea, I hadn't thought about mold setting in.  That does make a nice stain!
Hawkdancer

[Eric Krewson]

Osage stained with aqfortis, one coat, more coats would be darker.

[Muskyman]

I might have to make some of the walnut stain. I like the color and my wife has probably picked up 15 buckets of them out of our yard so far this year.. do they have to be green to start with or can they already be starting to decaying and turn black?

[GlisGlis]

you can use the one already  black

[TimBo]

I highly recommend wearing rubber gloves - walnuts stain skin just as effectively as wood!

[Muskyman]

I’ll look around the edges of my yard for my wife's dumping spots.. she picks them up almost daily and puts them in a bucket and dumps them in the woods. Won’t be any trick to find a bunch.. I’m guessing I need to take the nut off them then toss them into a gallon size baggie. Also will one bag be enough?

[Hawkdancer]

The walnuts are good eating too!  Also attract squirrels! They are also good eating!  Might sll at the farmer's market, too!
Hawkdancer

[Allyn T]

I collected a grocery bag full this year, all piled up on a sidewalk. Got em hulled and have the nuts drying right now. Gonna see how good they are but I mainly collected em for the hulls for stain.

[Muskyman]

We’ll I guess I’m to late for the walnut hulls. They all seem to be dried out. I found a few that were still green but not like when they first fall off,kinda dry.. I did put a few into a pound size baggie to see what will happen..  The ones that were black were pretty much dried out. Guess I’ll have to wait till next year..  Anyone ever use lamp black for stain? Can’t recall how we used to make it. Might have been lamp black and linseed oil.

[Eric Krewson]

You want the black dried out hulls for stain, crush them up and boil them. I wanted the old black ones for my stain, the blacker the better.

[Allyn T]

Just add a little water to the bag they should rehydrate just fine

[Muskyman]

So it doesn’t matter if the meat inside is gone?  They are more dark brown than black.

[Eric Krewson]

Doesn't matter, you are only working with the hull, you throw away the nut.

[Hawkdancer]

Got the shipment of walnuts!  I spread them out to dry, and will remove and crush the husks to start the process!  Thanks!
Hawkdancer