Blue or brown barrel
#1
Spike
Thread Starter
Join Date: Oct 2009
Posts: 58
Blue or brown barrel
I just got a T/C Hawken kit for cheap to occupy my time with the build.(recently retired) What do you think would be the best looking and easiest to use; blue or brown? Any suggestions as to a good brand of finish?
#3
Jon...
I was never really an advocate of browning because I've seen so many kit guns that were browned that looked like sh*t on a white rag. That said, I was impressed with the work I've seen that you've done using that product. If I were to decide to build a kit gun and decide to do a brown finish, that's what I'd use based on what I've seen you do with your guns.
BPS
I was never really an advocate of browning because I've seen so many kit guns that were browned that looked like sh*t on a white rag. That said, I was impressed with the work I've seen that you've done using that product. If I were to decide to build a kit gun and decide to do a brown finish, that's what I'd use based on what I've seen you do with your guns.
BPS
#5
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2014
Location: gilbert az
Posts: 1,168
Brown for sure I just browned my target rifle barrel and it came out fantastic! I think there are pics on my profile page ? Pretty easy process just need patience and about 3-5 days.
#6
I browned a T/C Renegade kit back in the very early 80's. And I have to admit through the years it just got better looking in age. I never could blue a barrel. A friend tried, I helps, we followed the instructions to the letter and needless to say were not happy with the results.
#8
That Laurel Mountain Forge was the same stuff I used I believe. (All I remember was Mountain Forge, came in a small brown bottle.) I purchased the stuff at a Rendezvous. Some person was selling it, and I was impressed with the quality of work he'd done on his barrels.
#9
For the record. A lot of the original Hawken rifles were blued.
They look like they might have been browned, but that was old guns we're looking at that got rusty or bluing just wore off. When they took off the barrels and looked at the bottom of them where it was protected they saw they were blued.
They look like they might have been browned, but that was old guns we're looking at that got rusty or bluing just wore off. When they took off the barrels and looked at the bottom of them where it was protected they saw they were blued.
Last edited by Muley Hunter; 01-21-2017 at 11:42 AM.
#10
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Georgia
Posts: 261
One thing that I like to do, and I don't remember where I learned this trick, but after I get the color brown that I want and kill the acid with baking soda solution, I wipe the barrel down with automatic transmission fluid. This will give the barrel a nice reddish brown color and it dries to a nice sheen.