Gun Refinishing: DIY Friendly, Or Let The Experts Do It?

My Fathers 1923 aa rifle, I used cold chemical and messed around, then had a gunsmith with bluing tanks do it,great job. Let a pro take care of it. I have a Parkerized P-38 the finish suits me fine.

i will %. up the place Annie left off. I desire a end that's rather repairable and that excludes all varnish type finishes. i like boiled inedible linseed oil. If it gets dinged or scratched you may rather sweat out a dent or rub some greater end on a scratch and that's solid as new without stripping and refinishing. Linseed does take time however. The old formulation is a coat an afternoon for each week, then a coat each and every week for a month... then a coat a month for a year. There are adjustments you could attempt... like mixing some drops of Japan dryer (obtainable at maximum paint shops) in an oz. of linseed. this could make it dry swifter. you additionally can mixture linseed and tung oil... i've got self belief there was once a commercial product that consisted of this mixture and it became into observed as LinSpeed if I bear in mind wisely. Linseed is artwork... probably too plenty artwork except it rather is a exertions of love.

I would really send it to a good smith to have it hot blued. The home DIY blueing kits dont last anywhere near as long. I think duracoat is ugly and would only use it on a beat up rifle or shotgun stock.

the home jobs require the gun to be absurdly clean and free of any oils or residue. Something along the lines of an ultrasonic cleaner with a strong degreaser would be ideal.

Depends on whether your goal is for it to look marginally better or for it to look right. A professional will get it right. Do it yourself results vary from pretty good to downright crappy but the good thing is you're only out a couple of bucks, probably can't do any permanent damage, and can still take it to a pro.

I use a Gunsmith. He knows what I want and my weapon comes back with a free survey of

every single working part.

I think it would be better to get the professionals to do it this time and try to learn from them how to do it properly, this is how I learned how to do it and now I do most of my gunsmithing myself.

It is just "salty" looking and is showing it's battle scars. For just a normal production piece, I would not bother.