De-Nickeling?
 

Once a Luger has been nickel plated, can it effectively be "de-nickled" and re-blued into a nice looking shooter (assuming it was nice looking in the nickled state, ie: Proofs and stampings)? Or is nickle plating some sort of metalurgical electro-imbueing process that can't effectively be reversed?
My whole thought is for a decent looking (that is non-shiney silver) shooter. I keep running across guys with nickle platted, but otherwise very nice Lugers, and was wondering if it'd be worth "saving" them. What would be too much to pay for a nickle luger with this in mind?
I figure you'd have to get the pistol for pretty cheap to make it cost effective versus just buying a re-blued shooter to start with, but it makes for an interesting topic of consideration.

Any place that can nickel plate should be able to de- plate.
Cost as always is the problem. If it is a nice one,and you can get the Luger for say around $500.And If it was just plated, NOT buffed half to death. It should be worth it.

I was reading on-line and it said that the problem isn't the nickle / denickling, but the copper that has to be applied for the nickle to stick. Evidently the only way to get the copper off is to buff it off.

At least that is what I read :eek:


Ed

depends on the nickling process. Some of the new nickle plates are direct to steel, no copper involved.