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<blockquote data-quote="shortgrass" data-source="post: 439885" data-attributes="member: 24284"><p>Roy, I'm using an old 'home brewed' mix, not comercially available. In a way, I was jabbing back at dub about "how easy" he seems to think it is. I am professionally trained and do this for a living and have done so since 1993. Any number of things can be ignored, not done properly, or jusy plain misunderstood to the point that a job that takes a long time may not turn out. Proper polishing comes first, not everyone is a metal finisher and I've seen some real disasters come thru my shop door. Lack of cleanliness will ruin the job for sure. Using the wrong applicator can and will, also, make you feel like you wasted your time (cross contamination). I've found hard water can mess it up, too, and have had better results with water from the softener. After you've got your method refined, it's strickly labor. Becoming a metal finisher (polishing, not rounding off edges, no ripples and keeping all lettering and numbers intact and as they left the factory) doesn't happen overnight. There must be a reason why I can limit my work to rifles and higher end O/U & SxS shotguns and not have to deal with the general stuff. If it was so easy everyone would do their own and slow rust wouldn't have such a mystique about it. Hell, there are so called 'experts' out there that have no idea that there is more than one way to blue a firearm. Ya' it's easy enough, as long as you know what you're doing to begin with. It's just another case where I think I should change my signature to "Gunsmithing, So easy a Caveman can do it!"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="shortgrass, post: 439885, member: 24284"] Roy, I'm using an old 'home brewed' mix, not comercially available. In a way, I was jabbing back at dub about "how easy" he seems to think it is. I am professionally trained and do this for a living and have done so since 1993. Any number of things can be ignored, not done properly, or jusy plain misunderstood to the point that a job that takes a long time may not turn out. Proper polishing comes first, not everyone is a metal finisher and I've seen some real disasters come thru my shop door. Lack of cleanliness will ruin the job for sure. Using the wrong applicator can and will, also, make you feel like you wasted your time (cross contamination). I've found hard water can mess it up, too, and have had better results with water from the softener. After you've got your method refined, it's strickly labor. Becoming a metal finisher (polishing, not rounding off edges, no ripples and keeping all lettering and numbers intact and as they left the factory) doesn't happen overnight. There must be a reason why I can limit my work to rifles and higher end O/U & SxS shotguns and not have to deal with the general stuff. If it was so easy everyone would do their own and slow rust wouldn't have such a mystique about it. Hell, there are so called 'experts' out there that have no idea that there is more than one way to blue a firearm. Ya' it's easy enough, as long as you know what you're doing to begin with. It's just another case where I think I should change my signature to "Gunsmithing, So easy a Caveman can do it!" [/QUOTE]
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