straw colored parts

BILL · 10-11-2001, 09:26 PM

Unfortunately home ovens are just not very accurate, consistant, or even. I have seen some real amateur home kitchen reblues and restraws and they somehow always look just like what they are. Unless you have had a really nice rust blued pistol or well strawed part it is hard to know what to compare it to. I agree that one can turn a polished piece of metal straw color in a kitchen oven (even fire blue it if you want to) but having the proper equipment, knowledge and experience is critical to ending up with a really nice job. If you have a pistol that you value I would suggest that you leave it as is or have it done by someone who is really proficient at it. There is an old saying that a wink is as good as a nod to a blind horse and I think that applies to kitchen table gunsmithing. I have seen too many bad 'cold blue' touch ups and lousy straw jobs over the years.

10-11-2001, 09:26 PM	#6
BILL User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Western Washington Posts: 826 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: straw colored parts Unfortunately home ovens are just not very accurate, consistant, or even. I have seen some real amateur home kitchen reblues and restraws and they somehow always look just like what they are. Unless you have had a really nice rust blued pistol or well strawed part it is hard to know what to compare it to. I agree that one can turn a polished piece of metal straw color in a kitchen oven (even fire blue it if you want to) but having the proper equipment, knowledge and experience is critical to ending up with a really nice job. If you have a pistol that you value I would suggest that you leave it as is or have it done by someone who is really proficient at it. There is an old saying that a wink is as good as a nod to a blind horse and I think that applies to kitchen table gunsmithing. I have seen too many bad 'cold blue' touch ups and lousy straw jobs over the years.