Now that is amazing! What a transformation!! Did you paint that or blue it?
After the hard bit the secret lies in the plastic bottle under the barrel in the picture.
G96 gun blue creme.
Baz introduced me to this and it works very well ,even when I use it!
thanks guys that gives me faith its a job that's doable!
Just on the buffing front, i have never done it so whats the procedure for that? I have a small bench grinder that can be converted to polishing duties.
Go onto fleabay and buy a buffer kit with hard and soft buffer with polish. I got some diamond polishing soap from where I worked and use that. Use the black hard polisher first then change over to the white soft polisher to bright polish it.
BUT, the main key here is to get out every bit of pitting out because it WILL show up when blacked. Don't be talked into using any cold blues, they're all crap and will go dull in a short period of time. Hot chemical blacking is the ONLY way to get a life long finish on the action. Trust me, I've been doing it for many years. I've used many of the cold blues and wouldn't ever use them again.
Ask Mach1.5 on here, he's the last person I did a job for before packing my equipment away.
Fozzy
I am in the process of setting up for hot bluing so once its mastered It will be getting a hot blue.
I did a old Ithaca with cold blue a few years ago and its the only gun to ever take a cold blue well all the others have been ok but not great.
Buffing kit is next on the list then!
Buy good quality polishing soaps. It's pays in the end.
Rust never sleeps !
It does not look to bad to me from the images. A bit of time and elbow grease and she'll be good. Though I have never reblued a gun fully before. Always wondered how you do it