Nickled luger?

[lugerholsterrepair]

Hakan...You are right .. When I had my 1908 stripped of it's chrome plate it was bare metal underneath and correctly, you would have to buff or bead blast this to achieve a surface proper for blueing. There are many types of blueing and for instance Mr Colt did a form in a furnace fed with bones that created intense smoke and no oxygen thus pulling carbon out of the metal. The result is a beautiful blue not matched to this day in commercial production. Ted does a rust blue and maybe he can explain how that works, Pulls carbon out or what? Jerry