Blueing question

jeb111 · 12-21-2021, 10:36 AM

When Lugers started to be salt blued in 37 was the muzzle and inside frame sections also blued or left in the white like the rust blued versions?
Jim

Sieger · 12-22-2021, 02:56 AM

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Originally Posted by jeb111

When Lugers started to be salt blued in 37 was the muzzle and inside frame sections also blued or left in the white like the rust blued versions?
Jim

Hi,

My salt blued byf 41 is blued in its entirety.

Sieger

ithacaartist · 12-23-2021, 01:00 PM

Yes, salt blued Lugers are blued virtually throughout. Instead of the multi-step process of repeatedly wiping the surfaces with chemicals, rusting, boiling, and carding--as one would do for rust bluing--the components are suspended in a tank of hot chemicals and removed after sufficient color has been built up. Plugging the barrels keep the solution out of the bore and chamber.

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ithacaartist Twice a Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Atop the highest hill in Schuyler County NY Posts: 3,401 Thanks: 7,560 Thanked 2,643 Times in 1,393 Posts	Yes, salt blued Lugers are blued virtually throughout. Instead of the multi-step process of repeatedly wiping the surfaces with chemicals, rusting, boiling, and carding--as one would do for rust bluing--the components are suspended in a tank of hot chemicals and removed after sufficient color has been built up. Plugging the barrels keep the solution out of the bore and chamber. __________________ "... Liberty is the seed and soil, the air and light, the dew and rain of progress, love and joy."-- Robert Greene Ingersoll 1894