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This Luger was NICKEL plated when I got and the client wanted a TLC TDJ. AFTER pics

https://scontent-dfw5-1.xx.fbcdn.net...92&oe=5C82AB50
https://scontent-dfw5-1.xx.fbcdn.net...5b&oe=5CB12251

Ted, your client certainly received a TDJ! Nice!

Amazing! You do 'magic' with lugers.

Beautiful! Truly outstanding.


BUT


What is a "TDJ"?

I'll give Ted a hand until he gets back here...

It's the acronym for what he calls a "Total Doll Job." Strawing the extractor and whiting the markings surely isn't exactly factory original, but it certainly makes for a purdy Luger!

I was figuring something like "Total Detail Job" - just couldn't quite get the "D"

Thanks for the assist. TLC=Thor's Luger Clinic TDJ=Total Doll Job as my friend said

Other Examples of the TDJ.
https://scontent-dfw5-1.xx.fbcdn.net...d8&oe=5C7E6B3C
https://scontent-dfw5-1.xx.fbcdn.net...90&oe=5C6528A9
https://scontent-dfw5-1.xx.fbcdn.net...d6&oe=5C81891E

The job of a MASTER !!!

Awesome!! We all want one.

Or two, or three...

For the right price, I am sure Ted would even do a TDJ on a Nambu… but the cost of removing that many tool marks might be prohibitive! :D

John,

Early models are finished to very high "European" standards, so massive amounts of tool marks will not be present.

Sieger

I did this pitted mess, I guess I could NAMBU one!
https://members.rennlist.com/lugerman/DDD10.JPG
https://members.rennlist.com/lugerman/DDD11.JPG
https://members.rennlist.com/lugerman/DDD3.JPG
https://members.rennlist.com/lugerman/DDD4.JPG
https://members.rennlist.com/lugerman/DDD5.JPG
https://members.rennlist.com/lugerman/DDD7.JPG
https://members.rennlist.com/lugerman/DDD9.JPG

BEFORE and AFTER photos of the pitted Double Date
https://members.rennlist.com/lugerman/DDD1.JPG
https://members.rennlist.com/lugerman/BDA2.JPG
https://members.rennlist.com/lugerman/DDD2.JPG
https://members.rennlist.com/lugerman/BDA1.JPG

Sieger, obviously you didn't pay any attention to the emoticon at the end of my posting.... it was meant to be sarcasm intended for Zorba, as my distaste for Nambu pistols is well known...:surr:

IMHO they look like they were manufactured from scratch out of scrap metal by convicts with files... :order: at least when compared to Lugers!

John,

I'm afraid we totally disagree on Nambus; but, that's ok, as everyone is allowed their own opinion.


Sieger

John,
have you ever owned a Nambu?
I have and still have a few; and have not seen one such as you describe, unless it was a 20.6 date that shipped out near the last day of production.

Early Nambus are as nicely put together as any pistol, later ones look a little more like Erfurt 1917s or 18s- but without the "Rc" markings. :evilgrin:

12.9 was produced in Sept. of '37, 14.1 is Jan. 1939, and 20.6 is June of 1945- about as late as routine production continued.

Oh my! Miracles can be caused to happen.
Well done!:thumbup:

I'd like to see some close-ups of the after Luger, if you don't mind Ted. Polished out or filled?
dju