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Who does a good job in reblueing a Parker SxS. The finish is evenly browned out. I know there is a reluctance for refinishing old guns, but I've pretty well decided to do the unthinkable.
Rust blue? It's a low end Parker duck gun from 1904 with perfect bores and an upgraded stock. It looks now kind of like 500 dollar shoes on a 40 dollar suit.
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I had a VH that had nice even brown barrels, one night I got out the WD40 and oooo steel wool and gently rubbed the barrels. A very nice blue remained under the brown. You may want to give this a try before you send it off.
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Another thought, which I broached here several months ago, but haven't had the time to try, might be to boil the barrels after degreasing. I have a couple guns with very evenly brown patina barrels, including a Baker Batavia Leader which has very nice wood and about 75% bright case colors. I wondered, since the original rust blue which is a black oxide (ferro ferric oxide) evenly converted back to a brown rust (ferric oxide), could I do the same thing as is done when rust bluing and simply boil these barrels until the rust turns black, and then card with 0000 steel wool, dry, then oil? The only difference I could see would be boiling only once rather than multiple times between each rusting pass. If it didn't work out well you could always go to plan B and strip and reblue. I'm sure this wouldn't work out well with barrels that are splotchy or unevenly coated with patina (gun dealers word for rust).
If this would work, it raises the question: since all I have done is reconvert the original finish which turned brown, back to black, does this constitute refinishing? And if it is refinishing, is it less "evil" than stripping, striking, polishing, and repeatedly rusting, boiling, and carding with new rust bluing solutions?
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That would be great if it works..perhaps it's one of those closely guarded trade secrets :),though we might have heard of it by now, but who knows?, not I
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That is sure an interesting thought, and I am sure has occurred to many. I tried it a long time ago, and the "rust" does not convert. At least it did not for me.
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