Handgun bluing?

[Six Shooter Steve]

Any of you guys and gals ever had your handguns re blued? Looking to get one of mine refinished and am looking for a place to go. Im trying to find a place within driving distance so I dont have to ship my gun. If any of ya know a place could you list it. thanks, Im in the northern half of the state about a hour north of Indy.

 

[Que]

Not sure how far you are willing to drive, but check out Hoosier Gun Coat - Professional Firearms Refinishing for some information.

 

[IndyGunworks]

If you come to any of the 1500's you could drop it off to me there.... as far as i know HGC doesnt blue, and is located further south in bloomington, he does do some pretty awesome duracoat work though.

 

[Greenmonsta79]

I bought some Blue Wonder and refinished a old Winchester .22 I had and it turned out perfect I was very suprised! It is available through Cabela's

 

[slow1911s]

Wayne Black Oxide 260-484-0280

They know how to handle pistols and will give you a deep, black finish. Great rates, too.

 

[dudley0]

I have a Smith 29 that has some pitting on it. Works fine but looks horrible. I got the gun this way, by the way.

Like it but don't want to dump a lot into it. Been trying to find someone who can put a rougher texture on it to hide some of it's flaws. Parkerize? I did a black re-coat but it just isn't right.

Anybody know someone willing to tackle a job like this?

 

[Six Shooter Steve]

Doesnt waynes have to have all the prep work done before they will put their finish on it?

 

[IndyGunworks]

I have a Smith 29 that has some pitting on it. Works fine but looks horrible. I got the gun this way, by the way.

Like it but don't want to dump a lot into it. Been trying to find someone who can put a rougher texture on it to hide some of it's flaws. Parkerize? I did a black re-coat but it just isn't right. also, depending on how bad the pits are they can be removed and blended and then reblued, and provided they are not to terrible, you will never even be able to tell they were ever there.

Anybody know someone willing to tackle a job like this?

Yep.... i can parkerize, and after its phosphated i can apply any number of coatings afterwards including a dip in the hot blue bath, or norrels moly resin, or cerekote.... although the parkerizing is cheap enough, the extra coatings CAN be expensive depending on what you choose

Doesnt waynes have to have all the prep work done before they will put their finish on it?

the key to a successful reblue, is in the prep work... the actual act of applying the blue black finish is the easy albiet expensive part, but w/out really good prep all the imperfections will just show through.... ill try and put up some before and afters later this week.

 

[dudley0]

Just wanting to cover the blemishes... all I knew of was parkerizing or actually welding to build up the pits and polish back to size... definitely not what I want.

Can other coatings fill in and smooth out the pits?

Just jumped over to your site... looks nice...

Sorry if I hijacked this thread...

 

[IndyGunworks]

how deep are the pits? you would be suprised what can be done.

 

[IndyGunworks]

here are some before pics.... ill post the afters tomorrow as they are on a differant camera but lets just say it looks almost as good as new

 

[IndyGunworks]

sorry for the photos.... i had the gun all the way apart before i had the itch to take some before photos so i just put the major pieces back together for a brief photo op.

 

[IndyGunworks]

here are some before pics.... ill post the afters tomorrow as they are on a differant camera but lets just say it looks almost as good as new

here are the afters as promised

 

[Six Shooter Steve]

Cant argue with those pics, lookin good

 

[IndyGunworks]

Thanks

 

[fw501]

If you come to any of the 1500's you could drop it off to me there.... as far as i know HGC doesnt blue, and is located further south in bloomington, he does do some pretty awesome duracoat work though.

Maybe I'm an exception...I had a S&W 9mm that I sent to HGC and was less than happy with the whole expierence. Communication is very poor. He sent me a pic of my gun when it was finished, but it took almost three weeks and several emails to get a bill so I could get my gun back. Then...I shot it and cleaned it...HGC sprayed over all the internal parts which in my opinion made a mess, and then with Hoppes#9 solvent the finish started coming off the slide. I would NOT recommend sending anything there. Again, maybe I'm the exception but I will NEVER send anything there again!

 

[markbritt]

Try Van's Gun Blue. Clean the metal and you can touch up your gun and it looks great. I have also used this product on entire guns that I have stripped down, removed old bluing and cleaned the metal with solvent. This product works great and is about $40.00 a quart at the gunshows - resable too.
Hope this helps

 

[IndyGunworks]

Try Van's Gun Blue. Clean the metal and you can touch up your gun and it looks great. I have also used this product on entire guns that I have stripped down, removed old bluing and cleaned the metal with solvent. This product works great and is about $40.00 a quart at the gunshows - resable too.
Hope this helps

problem is cold blue offers ZERO protection against corrosion... it looks nice, but its not durable and unless oiled OFTEN your firearm will just rust right through it.

 

[dudley0]

how deep are the pits? you would be suprised what can be done.

Sadly the gun is pretty bad. It was liberated from a shed, where it had been laying in a nice bed of straw for a long time. I grabbed it up, had the numbers run through a LEO buddy of mine and started toying around with it.

Haven't posted pics before but I will try. The reason I thought about the parkerizing was to help fill in and then hide the flaws.

Maybe it would it be better to just ship it to you for an estimate?

Either way I like the gun, it's a little cannon, but I don't want to dump money into a pit... no pun intended.

 

[IndyGunworks]

Sadly the gun is pretty bad. It was liberated from a shed, where it had been laying in a nice bed of straw for a long time. I grabbed it up, had the numbers run through a LEO buddy of mine and started toying around with it.

Haven't posted pics before but I will try. The reason I thought about the parkerizing was to help fill in and then hide the flaws.

Maybe it would it be better to just ship it to you for an estimate?

Either way I like the gun, it's a little cannon, but I don't want to dump money into a pit... no pun intended.

might be better to email me some pics or post them on here before you ship it to me for a quote.... its its as bad as you say it is, the "pit" might be a little bit deeper than you hope.... either way we cannot determine a price until i see the condition of the pistol first.