Navy Luger

[mikefromstpete]

Thanks for the info.
I am wondering how/why the blueing would be absent on the interior surfaces of the frame?
The numbers and proof marks seem to have a "halo" around them. All of the two digit numbers are the same as the last two of the number under the barrel, the serial number.
I'll be studying the dis-assembly instructions. I don't want to deal with the embarrassment of taking the pistol to the 'smith in a bag.

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by mikefromstpete

Thanks for the info.
I am wondering how/why the blueing would be absent on the interior surfaces of the frame?

I believe it has to do with the differences between rust bluing and hot salt bluing...Hot salt bluing involves immersing the item in a liquid solution of bluing salts...(IIRC)...

But I don't think I've read a description of how the rust blue was applied...Brush maybe???

Someone who knows must inform us...