Guide to Re-Strawing your parts?

DonVoigt · 03-04-2017, 09:30 AM

There is a sticky here on strawing too- or maybe the other luger forum.

Just search on straw, strawing, re-strawing or similar and you can find it.

For those challenged in degrees C- a nice straw color is obtainable from 420 to 460 degrees F, the range depends on the accuracy of your thermometer, time, metal, and phase of the moon.

It can be done in your "regular" oven; and re-done if it does not turn out to suit the first time.
Just re-polish to white and do it over.

03-04-2017, 09:30 AM	#1
DonVoigt User Join Date: Apr 2015 Location: near Charlotte NC Posts: 4,681 Thanks: 1,443 Thanked 4,356 Times in 2,041 Posts	There is a sticky here on strawing too- or maybe the other luger forum. Just search on straw, strawing, re-strawing or similar and you can find it. For those challenged in degrees C- a nice straw color is obtainable from 420 to 460 degrees F, the range depends on the accuracy of your thermometer, time, metal, and phase of the moon. It can be done in your "regular" oven; and re-done if it does not turn out to suit the first time. Just re-polish to white and do it over. __________________ 03man(Don Voigt); Luger student and collector. Looking for DWM side plate: 69 ; Dreyse 1907 pistol K.S. Gendarmerie

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