You might want to consider a bead-blast and re-blue. Just a
thought. Actually starting blued, you could prep it yourself, and have it re-blued for $50-$100. Just reading on here of a couple of forum members like a barrel about that long for IWB. If I had one like that,
I'd follow that route, JMHO.
How about Pics from the various stages in the project. I'd Really
like to see how it all works out. TACC1