Strawing Story and First Test Photo

This is my first test photo with my new camera and there is a story that goes with it.


I recently bought a shooter LP08. The five strawed parts on mine were replaced with blued parts. I removed the five parts to send them off to be strawed but I thought I would experiment with them first. I had some Naval Jelly that was supposed to remove rust and blue. It sure did remove the blue, totally. Then I thought I would see what the pistol would look like with oiled, bare steel parts on it. I washed the parts in water to clean off the Naval Jelly.


Before oiling, to expedite drying the water off the parts, I turned the kitchen oven on to 400 degrees and put the parts in to dry on aluminum foil. After ia few minutes I took the parts out of the oven. They were dry. They were also STRAWED!


This was not a bright yellow straw like on polished new parts, but a perfect old semi-faded straw color. I noticed that where the surface was clean (no freckling) the straw was most apparent and where the surface was discolored you had to look closely to see that it was strawed (mostly on the safety and locking lever, left side. Perfect for my particular pistol!


Every time I looked at the blued trigger it screamed "Wrong part!" Now it looks right. The color in the photo is a bit off, due to the light source, I guess.






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