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The gold colored parts are actually what is called "strawed" ![](http://boards.renn</strong>
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It is a metal finish based on heat applied to clean metal surfaces. Our Resident expert on Strawing parts is Ted Green (THOR) who operates a strawing and refinishing service listed under "links and resources"<br />
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If you do a search of this site on the word "straw" You will come up with plenty of threads where you can read about the finish... including some recipes on how to do it. Ted)
This finish was pretty much standard until 1937 (feel free to chime in and correct me if I got the year wrong) when the demand and pressures of wartime production caused the Germans to go to bluing as the standard finish for all parts in an effort to increase production by eliminating the fancy stuff...
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