project GS42

[Paladinpainter]

Olle,
Did you sand the Savage to remove the pits before blasting ? I have a batch of water/smoke damaged non-Lugers I've been asked to rescue.
John

[Olle]

Originally Posted by Paladinpainter

Olle,
Did you sand the Savage to remove the pits before blasting ? I have a batch of water/smoke damaged non-Lugers I've been asked to rescue.
John

It has been a while, but as far as I can remember I didn't. Could be that I hit some of the worst spots, but I know I did the whole thing in just a few days (and most of that time was of course just rusting) so it wasn't much anyway.

You can probably do a pretty nice job like this if it's just a matter of surface rust and light pitting. It's not a show finish by any means, any pitting will still show but won't be nearly as noticeable as it would be with a high polish finish. Parkerizing would be the next option, the coarse blasting and flat black finish will hide a lot of imperfections.