Norrell's Moly-Resin on a Shooter

[Zamo]

About a month ago, I bought a well worn 1917 DWM. It was miss-matched, and while still dressed in its original finish, there was precious little left. I bought it as a shooter, with full plans on refinishing it from the get go. Here are a couple photos showing it's transformation.
Here's the pistol as I got it:

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And here it is today:

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In between there was about twenty minutes with a wire brush wheel over the whole thing, copious applications of aerosol brake cleaner, about 15-20 minutes re-strawing in the kitchen oven, an evening cleaning the grips, about 50 posts here with questions, and about two hours cleaning, prepping, spraying, and baking the moly-resing on this rainy saturday in the greater Pugetropolis.
Total out of pocket $$$ spent on the refinish: $4.97 for some JB Weld to patch up the trigger.
I already had the Moly-Resin, but that would have been about another $25.
Not too bad for a shooter.

I actually have ordered a replacement trigger, and have a Glossy-Black bottle of the Moly-Resin coming, and I will fire off another coat of that when it arrives. If it looks this good with the Flat Black color, I think the glossy will be very good. They advertise it as "Like a well-oiled deeply blued" finish, which should be just about right. I hope to re-straw the trigger to a closely matching shade with the other componants when I get it.

The neat thing about Moly-Resin is that it is very thin. I can't recall the numbers, but I seem to remember it's measured in microns. It worked perfect for retaining all the stampings on the pistol, which usually is the bane of a regular re-blueing.

This shot high lights the poor trigger (even after I worked it over), and the newly strawed parts.

While crisp, many of the stampings on this pistol seemed awfully shallow. Being a full on novice, I am not sure if that was typical of 1917 DWM's, or just my perception, but the crispness of the markings, as well as edges all around leads me to believe it hadn't been previously refinished. But it has now!
I was very liberal about drenching the pistol with gun oil upon re-assembly, and these pictures show abit of the surplus oil wicking out of cracks and crevices. That's my fault, and nothing to do with the Moly-resin. Reminds me of that stupid clip on an M16's charging handle, and how we always used to get gigged for too much oil there. Same thing.
Next will be new grips, as these are pretty thrashed. That, the trigger, and the second coat of Glossy Black should finish this guy up, and make him a proud part of my arsenal.
Thanks to everyone on this board who has helped with advice, education, and patience!