..It had been brought down to the white though, which was fine with me as it gave me a chance to color match.
Great job on the color matching! It looks spot on to me. As a reference point, how many cycles did you have to rust/card this to get to that level?
Unfortunately no drawings. I am still hopeful someone will have a extractor or repro-extractor for sale that I find.I'm amazed. I would never have thought you could bring it back to the condition you have from what it was. Very nice.
Did you ever get the drawings?
I just snatched a JGA DSM34 that will need to be restored off an online auction for cheap. I haven't gotten it since it's coming out of NC. Pictures weren't the best but your resto has given me hope.
Great job on the color matching! It looks spot on to me. As a reference point, how many cycles did you have to rust/card this to get to that level?
Since the band had already been bead blasted, it was fairly porous -- which is exactly what you need for rust bluing. It tooks me 5 cycles to get it where it is. I basically ran a couple cycles then compared it to the barrel until I got the color I wanted. If my barrel had more bluing on it, it probably would have taken twice as many more.I'd be interested to know as well. Any resource you used, or could recommend, on how to get a good rust blue finish?
Well the process is well documented in this thread if you go through all the posts. In short though:How did the restoration process go? I have a buddy who swears by marvel mystery oil, resurrected a luger that had been in a house fire (water damage) by letting it set in Marvel Mystery oil for 1 year....swears it works....