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Unread 06-17-2014, 04:24 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by guns3545 View Post
1. A professional restorer has to prep the metal before re-bluing...to do that, they have to grind and sand and polish the metal...
What a shame it is that so much metal has to be removed to get a nice finish...

But that explains why there are so many piece-of-crap refinished Lugers out there!
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