[BobBlakely]

Thanks for your kind words guys. I'll be seeing Aaron this weekend and I'll pass them on.

I took the toggle assy into a local gunsmith whom I know well. I did this because I was frustrated with the dinky little pin, and I wanted him to be responsible for it.

I've started stripping the reblue job off starting with the frame. I'm using Birchwood-Casey Rust-Blue remover with Q-Tips & a small brush which works quite well. I can see some places, all under the grip area, which are either small surface imperfections from forging, or one time deep surface pits from rust cleaned out before the last (cheap) blue job. Likely the latter. Tomorrow comes diatamaceous(sp) earth mixed with the rust remover on a very small brush to clean out the lettering and the proof stamps (what's left of them) without hurting them. Then it's on to careful polishing.

I'm anal about this.

Regards,
Bob...