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Terry Tiell · 06-24-2012, 03:09 PM

UPDATED WITH NEW PICS IN POST #15.

First and foremost THANK YOU THOR and JOHN for helping me register!

Secondly hello everyone glad to be here and take in the wealth of information from you experts. My father passed away years ago and left me an old German Luger he found while metal detecting in a drained fresh water reservoir. God only know how long she was down there on how she came to be there in the first place. Being he was a Baltimore City police officer he tried to clean it up but he made the mistake of not keeping the gun submerged till he could get around to it so rust set it and pitted it pretty badly, his solution was to sand, file, and grind the rust out making things even worse. So this is what I started out with about a month ago when I decided it was time she came back from the grave.

I sent TONS of pics to Thor who gave me a sad news that the barrel and upper were probly too far gone to save and then be able to safely fire so I went out and found a new/old barrel and upper from a 1913 Luger that looks much better then does for $200 shipped to my front door so its on the way. I've so far replaced the grips, grip screws, main spring, firing pin spring and trigger spring. I also spent the better part of 2 days welding new metal into the lower to fill the pitting rather then my dads way of grinding it out. Then I filed, sanded, buffed and polished her till she almost looks chromed or nickel plated! I'm almost done with the lower but I need to get finer files to get rid of the rest of my tooling marks.

Yesterday for the 1st time in I know for a fact at least 35 years I fired her. At 50 yards she had a grouping the size of a softball so I know my barrel may be tired but its by no means worthless. Once I get done with the lower I plan to lightly sand blast it to frost the metal prior to my other first, hot bluing. Once I get done with the metal work I'll post more pics of the lower. Now please keep in mind this gun was BAD off and this is my first ever attempt at rebuilding a gun of any kind.

06-24-2012, 03:09 PM	#1
Terry Tiell User Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: The Fascist State of Maryland Posts: 224 Thanks: 55 Thanked 26 Times in 14 Posts	Hello everyone. UPDATED WITH NEW PICS IN POST #15. First and foremost THANK YOU THOR and JOHN for helping me register! Secondly hello everyone glad to be here and take in the wealth of information from you experts. My father passed away years ago and left me an old German Luger he found while metal detecting in a drained fresh water reservoir. God only know how long she was down there on how she came to be there in the first place. Being he was a Baltimore City police officer he tried to clean it up but he made the mistake of not keeping the gun submerged till he could get around to it so rust set it and pitted it pretty badly, his solution was to sand, file, and grind the rust out making things even worse. So this is what I started out with about a month ago when I decided it was time she came back from the grave. I sent TONS of pics to Thor who gave me a sad news that the barrel and upper were probly too far gone to save and then be able to safely fire so I went out and found a new/old barrel and upper from a 1913 Luger that looks much better then does for $200 shipped to my front door so its on the way. I've so far replaced the grips, grip screws, main spring, firing pin spring and trigger spring. I also spent the better part of 2 days welding new metal into the lower to fill the pitting rather then my dads way of grinding it out. Then I filed, sanded, buffed and polished her till she almost looks chromed or nickel plated! I'm almost done with the lower but I need to get finer files to get rid of the rest of my tooling marks. Yesterday for the 1st time in I know for a fact at least 35 years I fired her. At 50 yards she had a grouping the size of a softball so I know my barrel may be tired but its by no means worthless. Once I get done with the lower I plan to lightly sand blast it to frost the metal prior to my other first, hot bluing. Once I get done with the metal work I'll post more pics of the lower. Now please keep in mind this gun was BAD off and this is my first ever attempt at rebuilding a gun of any kind. Last edited by Terry Tiell; 06-28-2012 at 08:02 PM.