1915 Chromed Erfurt- Questions and Pictures

Edward Tinker · 03-02-2011, 02:13 AM

Personally, I am not a anti-chrome / anti-nickle guy, it is part of the guns history. It caught your eye as a pretty gun, why de-chrome it and change that?

The money spent de-chroming, rebluing and putting in a new barrel, you might as well buy a 2nd shooter luger. Just buy one more for what you are looking for?

Sometimes that rough bores shoot pretty good BTW

Ed

azrael_cervale · 03-02-2011, 09:30 AM

Well like I said this is my first Luger and I just bought it, yesterday in fact. It has a few spots that i think are rust coming through from nicks in the chrome, and i'm worried they spread and/or get worse. It seems like the gun wasn't buffed or anything before chroming there is a section that clearly shows rust pitting from when the gun was blue that has been chromed over. So I guess my reasons are two fold, one to save the gun from deterioration and two to bring it back to what it was. Alot of this will depend on the costs involved, I don't have alot of money to put into it so if the costs are too high i'll probably sell it and look for another in shooting condition, lately when I do see a Luger for sale it is marked very high ($1000+) and not that great condition.

I will try shooting the barrel as is though. Thanks.

I'll try to get some pics up tonight. Should I start a new thread? I don't mean to hijack this one.

03-02-2011, 02:13 AM	#1
Edward Tinker Super Moderator Eternal Lifer LugerForum Patron Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: North of Spokane, WA Posts: 15,979 Thanks: 2,077 Thanked 4,613 Times in 2,126 Posts	Personally, I am not a anti-chrome / anti-nickle guy, it is part of the guns history. It caught your eye as a pretty gun, why de-chrome it and change that? The money spent de-chroming, rebluing and putting in a new barrel, you might as well buy a 2nd shooter luger. Just buy one more for what you are looking for? Sometimes that rough bores shoot pretty good BTW Ed __________________ Edward Tinker ************ Co-Author of Police Lugers - Co-Author of Simson Lugers Author of Veteran Bring Backs Vol I, Vol II, Vol III and Vol IV

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03-02-2011, 09:30 AM	#2
azrael_cervale User Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 10 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Well like I said this is my first Luger and I just bought it, yesterday in fact. It has a few spots that i think are rust coming through from nicks in the chrome, and i'm worried they spread and/or get worse. It seems like the gun wasn't buffed or anything before chroming there is a section that clearly shows rust pitting from when the gun was blue that has been chromed over. So I guess my reasons are two fold, one to save the gun from deterioration and two to bring it back to what it was. Alot of this will depend on the costs involved, I don't have alot of money to put into it so if the costs are too high i'll probably sell it and look for another in shooting condition, lately when I do see a Luger for sale it is marked very high ($1000+) and not that great condition. I will try shooting the barrel as is though. Thanks. I'll try to get some pics up tonight. Should I start a new thread? I don't mean to hijack this one.