HisDivineShadow
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I'm looking at some AGI videos of rust and nitre bluing and hot caustic bluing.
I am currently building a bluing setup, thinking of hot caustic bluing. I had planned to do my 1911 with parking, but the caustic blung video got me interested in doing a matte finish with polished flats instead.
I have also planned to make a nitre bluing bath, a little one to make pretty peacock blue parts in, like for instance I am going to make a mirror polished narrowed DA trigger for my M17 revolver, it would look excellent in nitre blue, so would the sideplate screws. Oh and don't worry I am buying a new trigger to mutilate, the factory parts will be untouched so it can always be restored to factory condition.
Anyway... Then I got started on the slow rust bluing video and now I want to buy some old crappy lever action (my 9422 is near perfect except the barrel...) or something and slow rust blue it! Though a little part of me wonders what a slow rust blued S&W revolver would end up like...
I'd be happy to hear from people with previous experience with rust bluing guns, has anyone ever done a revolver with it? I'd be curious as to how it turns out, it looks simpler and requiring less severe polishing and thus less danger to the sharp corners and such.
EDIT: Also I am aware there might be confusion with slow rust bluing, as there seems to be several types around, but the one that concerns me is the one used in the AGI videos.
I am currently building a bluing setup, thinking of hot caustic bluing. I had planned to do my 1911 with parking, but the caustic blung video got me interested in doing a matte finish with polished flats instead.
I have also planned to make a nitre bluing bath, a little one to make pretty peacock blue parts in, like for instance I am going to make a mirror polished narrowed DA trigger for my M17 revolver, it would look excellent in nitre blue, so would the sideplate screws. Oh and don't worry I am buying a new trigger to mutilate, the factory parts will be untouched so it can always be restored to factory condition.
Anyway... Then I got started on the slow rust bluing video and now I want to buy some old crappy lever action (my 9422 is near perfect except the barrel...) or something and slow rust blue it! Though a little part of me wonders what a slow rust blued S&W revolver would end up like...
I'd be happy to hear from people with previous experience with rust bluing guns, has anyone ever done a revolver with it? I'd be curious as to how it turns out, it looks simpler and requiring less severe polishing and thus less danger to the sharp corners and such.
EDIT: Also I am aware there might be confusion with slow rust bluing, as there seems to be several types around, but the one that concerns me is the one used in the AGI videos.
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