A quick shooter project

[Olle]

Originally Posted by hughscpa

When you are refinishing a gun that is not numbers matching and is not being restored, do you reblue the internal parts also? Did you use the file in the picture is preparing the frame? Did you also have to use emery cloth? How fine do you go? I know this is a lot of questions but I have not done anything like this before. Thanks for your patience.

There's no need to reblue any internal parts since they're in the white, so it's just a matter of cleaning them. I do refinish "semi-internal" parts though, like the safety bar, pins and such. The safety bar is in the white, but it will usually look much better if you clean it off with wet or dry paper.

The sides on the frame were rounded off from the previous reblue, so I used a large draw file to flatten them. The rest was done with misc files and wet or dry sandpaper. 400 grit is usually fine enough for the final polish, it leaves the surface rough enough for the rust to get a good bite. I sand blasted this one, but it's not really the standard procedure.