Coming back to life, Slowly
 

Stripped down big girl today and added one coat of wood bleach. I still want to do a couple more and then fine sand with 400g.
Shes coming back slowly. The brass isnt actually brass, its a gimmick! I am going to sand it all down to bare metal and polish the barrel bands, trigger guard. Anything that was "Brass" will no longer be. I'll top it off with a chocolate brown stain and 10 or so coats of Truoil and knock the glare down quite a bit. Also have to polish the lock pieces and get everything tuned and ready.
Lost the darn tang screw [:@] I hate when that happens.

Huge difference when shes naked eh? "No i am not canadian :D"

RE: Coming back to life, Slowly
 

Frontier, you might want to try to heat your parts (bands, butt plate, etc). Get them nice and hot then oil quench. It will give them a nice blued appearance. Test one piece first.

RE: Coming back to life, Slowly
 

I'll consider that. I want to see how it looks with the trim all silver with the brown stock first and then decide.

The barrel will stay silver no matter what. I dont have to patience to blue that darn long thing!