Of all the things in life to regret, you regret having an Ithaca 37 from the 1950s reblued?
Why? Did it hurt the $250 or so value? How much so? Did it not work correctly when it was all over? Could you no longer hit anything with it?
I honestly don't get that.
Finish, is applied to metal, to preserve the metal. When that finish, be it paint, blueing, plating, or raw linseed oil, has given up the ghost, the metal is on it's own. Any finish is applied pretty much for that reason, only.
Paint, plating, and lowly blue are only finish. They have no other reason to be there. Steel is steel, and it all looks pretty much the same after a few years of hard outdoor use, in the absence of some sort of finsh.
Hot blue is pretty durable. What Ted is saying is a gun with no finish left on it, isn't really all it is cracked up to be.
Patina looks good-on your guns, John. If that is what you like. I guess.
Best,
Ted
