how did all these get reblued?

Jim Mac · 07-23-2014, 07:48 PM

my small collection of lugers include a fairly original 1917 erfurt, and a really nicely done up reblued dwm 1918 and a mismatched mauser with dwm parts etc thats also been reblued. Ive seen reblued ones for sale locally on backpage and armslist etc. So my question to the folks that was collecting these when they were a bit more common. Why did so many of these guns get the buff and reblued treatment? Were these things so plentiful that someone setup shop to assembly line them to make them like new (and hurt the collectability)? I know there are the chrome ones too which I would love to have just because they are different. jim

07-23-2014, 07:48 PM	#1
Jim Mac User Join Date: Oct 2011 Posts: 264 Thanks: 2 Thanked 70 Times in 37 Posts	how did all these get reblued? my small collection of lugers include a fairly original 1917 erfurt, and a really nicely done up reblued dwm 1918 and a mismatched mauser with dwm parts etc thats also been reblued. Ive seen reblued ones for sale locally on backpage and armslist etc. So my question to the folks that was collecting these when they were a bit more common. Why did so many of these guns get the buff and reblued treatment? Were these things so plentiful that someone setup shop to assembly line them to make them like new (and hurt the collectability)? I know there are the chrome ones too which I would love to have just because they are different. jim