Questions please on my first “06/24 Bern”

ithacaartist · 12-04-2017, 01:10 PM

Joe,

Original pistols of this pattern have their "safe" areas milled/created after rust bluing. One expects to see slight swirls left by the tool in this area, but what gives this one away as a refinish is the lack of straightness/crispness to the lines that are the edges of the area. It appears to me that this one's finish was applied after the safety area was shined up.

Perhaps it's the tones of the photo, but the sear bar appears to have been heated near its pivot. The part without the finish seems to display the gradient of colors that develop when unfinished steel is heated. Strange, indeed.

12-04-2017, 01:10 PM	#7
ithacaartist Twice a Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Atop the highest hill in Schuyler County NY Posts: 3,409 Thanks: 7,583 Thanked 2,657 Times in 1,398 Posts	Joe, Original pistols of this pattern have their "safe" areas milled/created after rust bluing. One expects to see slight swirls left by the tool in this area, but what gives this one away as a refinish is the lack of straightness/crispness to the lines that are the edges of the area. It appears to me that this one's finish was applied after the safety area was shined up. Perhaps it's the tones of the photo, but the sear bar appears to have been heated near its pivot. The part without the finish seems to display the gradient of colors that develop when unfinished steel is heated. Strange, indeed. __________________ "... Liberty is the seed and soil, the air and light, the dew and rain of progress, love and joy."-- Robert Greene Ingersoll 1894