how did all these get reblued?

alanint · 07-23-2014, 10:31 PM

Veterans and other folk who bought them for $15 dollars out of catalogues post war threw them into tackle boxes, campers, glove boxes, tool boxes and bottom drawers as "cheap insurance". They were viewed much as we would view a Bersa, Lorcin or Makarov today.
They got beat up and sometimes rusty. When they were passed on or when the owner decided they would look better with a reblue, they were taken to the local gunsmith, (which back then, virtually every town had) and cleaned up. Aside from imports, which went through a factory redo, this is why so many home grown bring-backs have been refinished.

07-23-2014, 10:31 PM	#2
alanint User Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Marco Island, Florida Posts: 4,867 Thanks: 1,685 Thanked 1,917 Times in 1,193 Posts	Veterans and other folk who bought them for $15 dollars out of catalogues post war threw them into tackle boxes, campers, glove boxes, tool boxes and bottom drawers as "cheap insurance". They were viewed much as we would view a Bersa, Lorcin or Makarov today. They got beat up and sometimes rusty. When they were passed on or when the owner decided they would look better with a reblue, they were taken to the local gunsmith, (which back then, virtually every town had) and cleaned up. Aside from imports, which went through a factory redo, this is why so many home grown bring-backs have been refinished.