The Mini-Maglight Test

[Thor]

Just to add a little to the discussion.
1. I dont normally hi polish Lugers or even moderate polish a Luger unless the client asked for it, I feel the military weapons were pretty polished to a coarser polish and the ones I do like that "look right".
2. Some modern day salt blues are very very dark black and I dont feel the older blues on original Mausers were that black. They look greyer to me but a black/gray. The one I did for Dwight was the modern day black I call DARTH VADER black.
3. An interesting observation-many times when stripping the bluing off different Lugers I notice that some of them MUST have had a different blue on different parts as some is hard to remove chemically and some disappears almost instantly. I think there are more parts guns in circulation than most people think.