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A friend has a 1894 ejector Remington with nice original colors and they are my favorite and show a lot of yellow and greenish blue,very delicate and pretty.

the colors are a bi product of hardening the metal.mc

Of course they are, but they can be controlled, to some degree, by the mixtures of the packing, (types of charcoal used, and the amounts of each), temps, distance from the "dump" to the quench, oxygen content of the water, and other things. If it were as simple hardening the metal then all would look the same.

I bought an old friends' heat treating oven, and all his supplies for case hardening last week. I will be making a foray into the "black art" sometime in the future, with a few old junked receivers.

Thanks, Stan

Please call John Gilette at Classic Guns and discuss. He has done a bunch of work for me and to my complete satisfaction. As stated above the color can be some what controlled by the charcoal pack, etc. and John knows his craft.

Stan,i will send you my XE 20 gauge frame for your first try! Bobby

No you won't!!! There's gonna be a lot of larnin' 'fore I try a good'un!.

Stan