Another newbie auction buy. How did I do?

[thegundude]

Guys, I'm confused....

I was under the impression that any kind of restoration, especially rebluing, was strictly verboten on anything collectable. Won't it ruin it's value?

I'm all for making it look as nice as possible. I'm already making plans to take some 0000 wool to it and clean it up as much as possible, but rebluing?

I've been doing amatuer gunsmithing for years. Nothing for profit mind you, but always using the part of the Hypocratic Oath "First, do no harm" in my work. For example I'd never try and reblue one of my Colt PPs.

I've built an AR from the ground up (okay, easy I know) and I've reblued countless guns and gun parts (and some things that aren't gun parts). "Fixed" so many guns by simply cleaning them I could have made a living off of that alone........ I know my way around most guns in a little more than just a very general way.

Am I missing something here? Or is this gun considered kind of "less collectable" and could benefit more from a restoration than it could be hurt by it? ...