Rebluing job on Smith &Wesson mod 19 DONE

[1911whore]

I spent a lot of time and energy getting this right but she is done. I started with a badly abused Model 19 and after a ton of metal prep to remove rust,scratches and dings things started to leak ok right! Then after many convos with a member here, I was able to get a good recipe for bluing salts and went through brownells for bluing tanks etc

I also completely reworked all internals and did a complete DA/SA action job and replaced the old springs with new ones. This was a complete rebuild and refinish!!

Let me know what you guys think!!

I don?t know how to embed pics so they are attached

[1911whore]

More pics

[1911whore]

I will be posting a YouTube video on this rebuild and reblue

[compulsivegunbuyer]

Beautiful. Nothing like that wow factor when you pull your first piece of steel out of the soup. The down side is, now that you have cracked that genie out of the bottle, you are going to look at every crap ugly duckling gun with the knowledge that you can refinish it. It gets real easy to get buried in projects. Look forward to seeing your YouTube production. Congrats on your first refinish.

[BOBGBA]

1911W - I always enjoy reading your posts...

Here's how you can embed your pictures for all logged in users to see, without them having to open each picture.

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[SNEAKS]

That looks great. Well done project.

['ol shooter]

Wish the pics were a bit larger, but looks like it came out very well.

[Enzo rules]

Looks good.

[sealocan]

That looks great!
Many years ago I Birchwood Casey cold blued one of those Kentucky rifle / percussion cap type kits and then a little later help a friend cold blued just the barrel of his 22 rifle (because he got a little saltwater on the barrel and it rusted in spots) with a product that he got at some gun show.

Both look good when they were finished but it was a bit of a hassle with all the prep work and making sure it came out nice in the end but neither of those projects compares to the deep rich dark blueing that you have accomplished.

Would you want to do that again or would you have to charge more than anyone would want to pay because of the hassles involved?

I'm not asking because I currently need it, but when I was done with my two projects I didn't want to do that again.

[1911whore]

Sealocan…. Shoot me a PM

[1911whore]

I appreciate the comments

[jimmykan]

So glossy and beautiful...

[RandyD]

I am curious about the cost and time spent to produce the bluing that you did.

[1911whore]

Total time was about ten hours in metal prep, two hours on the action work and the bluing process start to finish took about an hour.
So 13-15 hours in total roughly as I didn’t keep a stopwatch running whenever I worked on it, a did an hour or two here and there until it was ready to blue

[Samuel Jurado]

Wow, that is an awesome re-blue job. Outstanding work OP.