well i'm still learning. talked to a buddy and he lead me thru some of this. only 1 photo came up. will try for more later
Which blue are you using?
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Looks good from here.
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using mark lee express blue. i think that i giggled a little when it was assembled with new blue and stock finish
Looks good.
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Damn that looks good!
Chuck S.
That looks very nice
Nothing says class like Rust Blue
well, to be honest, i don't believe that rust blue looks any better that regular hot blue. here's why.. in the late 1970's, a friend and i began blueing guns in my basement. he did the buffing and i did the disassembly and re-assembly. our work was very good. here's the difference. my friend charlie finished the buffing with a finer buffing compound than used with rust blueing. the pictures of the mod 12 that i rust blued is finished with 400 grit wet/dry paper. the finished product gives a slight satin "glow". if i still had my hot blueing set up; i would use it,
I was given a Krag rifle that had been sporterized, sawed off barrel and stock, drilled and tapped for Remington sights, rubber butt pad. The stock was painted red, looked like dried blood. UGLY.
I spent so much time on that rifle/carbine. Cleaned up the crown, filled in the holes from the sights with tiny screws, peened the deep into the threads and finished them flush so they disappeared. I filed a flat spot on tip and silver soldered a genuine carbine sight in place. refinished the stock, the original cartouche still visible. I made a heavy brass Butt plate to fill the space from the crappy one. I oil rubbed is so that it looked vintage. Put a Redfield receiver sight on that fits in place of the magazine cut-off. I polished the barrel and other parts that were blued with emery cloth down to 400 grit. I heated the metal bits as hot as I could get them with an electric heat gun the swabbed them with Birchwood Casey cold blue. The metal still looks good 15years later. I was pretty proud of my efforts so I showed a friend who is a long time gunsmith for Browning the USSS.
He walked by my desk where I had it to show him. With out seeing it, he speaks up and askes everyone around "Who in the hell has been using the cold blue s$%*!"
He swore he could smell it before he walked into the office. He did pay me a nice compliment by saying I "had taken a $25 piece of crap and made it into a $75 dollar one". High praise indeed from him.
Fifteen years later, I can't smell it anymore-or maybe am I just used to it??
He also thought that the .30-40 cartridge was responsible for wounding more deer than any other with the exception of the .30-30. (hunters trying to reach too far)
He was a crusty ole Missouri farmer, I miss him.
Rusty
Last winter I handled a Stevens 325 in .30-30 that I cold blued as a kid over fifty years ago. It still looked crude, but there was no rust and the selenium smell had finally dissipated. Many years later I rust browned an antique side by side using a solution (I forget which one) that created a copper colored flash coating if you swabbed the metal more than once very lightly. Your work looks great and I wish I had your talent!
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BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
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