Buffed, Reblued, Boosted - Need Advice

saxman · 08-18-2002, 04:08 PM

At the risk of belaboring the point, you wouldn't reblue a mint gun. A mint gun has all it's original blue and no damage. Like the man said, it's not only possible but commonplace for a pistol to have most of it's blue worn off with no pitting, excessive wear or other damage. These pieces are good candidates for acid-cleaning and rust bluing with no buffing or other corrective work. This results in a very good-looking pistol which retains 100% of surface features. I would do this to my own gun if it were not particularly collectable.

08-18-2002, 04:08 PM	#30
saxman User Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 301 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	At the risk of belaboring the point, you wouldn't reblue a mint gun. A mint gun has all it's original blue and no damage. Like the man said, it's not only possible but commonplace for a pistol to have most of it's blue worn off with no pitting, excessive wear or other damage. These pieces are good candidates for acid-cleaning and rust bluing with no buffing or other corrective work. This results in a very good-looking pistol which retains 100% of surface features. I would do this to my own gun if it were not particularly collectable. __________________ You can lead 'em to the water, but you can't make 'em drink.

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