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 "

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.

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!