hi im new to the board,but i just finished revamping my mosin looky looky

[1shot3kills]

i disassembled the entire rifle,sanded wood to bare,stained it with red mohagany,clearcoated,sanded,clear coated,and repeated 4 times,so it has a good clear coat that is thick,and then i did a custom receiver polish,i buffed it down to bare metal with a hi speed rubber wheel(like a real hard rubber eraser grinding wheel thingy),then went over it with a fine stainless wire wheel brush on the dremel,then polished to a high shine with emory jewlers rouge and a felt wheel on the dremel,i think it looks awesome,this is a 1933 year production rifle made in tula.i know the polish job on the receiver takes away from the original condition value, but come on its a 120.00 rifle,but it shoots like a 500.00 rifle
anyways what ya think?

 

[lipadj46]

Looks good. I can't tell from the pictures but are you leaving the metal unblued? If so that baby is going to be a rust bucket without some sort of a protective coating. While it is nice and polished hit it with some cold blue. The stock looks good though I would have chose a tung oil finish.

 

[JWarren]

+1 on bluing or some other protective coating.

Bluing isn't applied to firearms for the cosmetics.

I had some odd AK parts that was left over a while back when I was working on one. I threw them in a trunk INSIDE of my house. About a month later, they look like they were taken off of a Somalia pirate's AK.



-- John

 

[Brian Williams]

Great job polishing, you might want to try a nice reblue.


And Capital letters.

 

[HoosierQ]

Go wild...Parkerize it! Or blue it but it will rust on you if you don't. Excellent work. Your prep on the metal, if properly and thoroughly de-greased should make for excellent adhearance of any finish you may put on there...unless it it too slick and then a little roughing up might be needed.

 

[lipadj46]

Blueing and parkerizing are an aqueous chemical reaction so you just need to make sure the surface is oil and grease free.

 

[MissouriCrowinMass]

I'm jealous.........

 

[Uncle Mike]

1shot3kills, that is an excellent job.

Shucks... we might have to put you to work polishing actions and such!

You should do that for some of your friend... make a little extra Mosin ammo cash! hehehe

 

[1shot3kills]

thanks

i appreciate everybody,and i have done some polising an the bolts of my ak47s ,i went and bought a blueing kit today and im going to polish out the entire barreled action and repost the finished project

 

[northwestneighbor]

Huh? Last I heard bluing does next to nothing to prevent corrosion. Just paint it with cosmo, let all of it drip off in an oven at 100 degrees, then wipe down the cosmo with a rag while its still warm until its just a light residue. That's my $0.02.

 

[jdub42]

cool

I did that to my M48, then I realized I am a purist when it comes to old guns. Wished I had of left the thing alone but, your rifle do what you please.

 

[lipadj46]

Huh? Last I heard bluing does next to nothing to prevent corrosion

Not sure where you heard that, it's true bluing does not protect 100% against rust. Maybe it is because the hot bluing provides the best rust prevention while cold blue not as much. Bluing on a rifle is a form of rust (Fe3O4) and when used in conjunction with oil is a good rust (Fe2O3) inhibitor.

 

[JWarren]

Huh? Last I heard bluing does next to nothing to prevent corrosion

Bluing will not absolutely protect a firearm against rust. You will still need to oil it and take care of it-- like everything else.

However, hot-bluing will protect the rifle and have a lot less need to care for it over bare-metal.

Cold-Blue is a cosmetic touch-up in my opinion.


-- John

 

[SaxonPig]

I've heard several differing opinions on cold blue, including one guy who said it actually promotes corrosion. We'll find out. I cold blued all the metal on this rifle because I couldn't see spending $150 to refinish a gun that cost me under $20 to buy and repair to working order. I did a $4 cold blue on it and we'll see how it holds up. I think it looks fairly decent,.. for now, anyway.