Alternative To Stippling or Texture Coating

[gene_sc]

I am not a wood working kinda guy. Never have been and never will be. But I am working on a stock for new project and discovered an alternative to stippling.
 
This may not be anything new but it solved my dilemma on alternative to stippling. I bought about 30 dollars worth of different bed liner paints and texture coatings but none gave me the effect I was looking for.
 
Here is what I came up with. I grabbed an old salt shaker and filled it up with glass beads. I masked off area to be textured. Painted it with a heavy wet coat and shook the salt shaker over all the wet painted area's. This gave me the texture I was looking for. To increase the texture I simply repainted with another wet coat of paint and shook some more glass beads out and painted over that.
 
The picture is just a rough idea of what I am talking about.  Just testing it out. When dried it was solid and no glass beads would rub off.
 
 

[MustangMike]

looks pretty good and thats a great idea, ive thought buying a wood iron and trying it out on a couple of stocks i have and dont use or are broken.

[Paul68]

There are a lot of effects you can create with that method. We used to do something similar when repainting road lines when I worked for a living many moons ago. We would paint, then sprinkle grains of reflective material on top. Used the technique to make no slip foot pads on vehicles as well. Long as you use a tough paint, very effective. Looks very tight.

[shadow]

That's a super idea bro and may do that to some of my shooters. Ed

[Pete]

If yer want a fine stipple... sprinkle sugar over the wet paint..
let dry then wash/dissolve the sugar in hot water... leaves
a very fine texture on the surface...( brown sugar for a heavy-er texture)
For a heavy  grip... use fine sand over the wet paint... when dry recoat
with paint... I use to do it on the deck of my boats with a large grainy sand..

[gene_sc]

Another great idea there Pete.
 
Thanks
Gene