This is now two years ago, but I sent them my father's old model 41 for reblueing. It was a mess: deep scratches and deep gouges, stocks that gave me splinters when I first got a hold of it! The gun was in such bad shape that S&W cautioned me that they might not be able to get out all of the cosmetic flaws whatever they did. (The gun was in good mechanical shape, thank goodness!)

It took almost a year to get it back but S&W did a fantastic job. But for the fact that their current process provides a blacker version of blue, the gun looks like it did when my father purchased it in 1971. My only regret is that the current blueing process does not produce the high gloss blue of the old days. (I imagine that that is due to current environmental concerns.)

FWIW, Vito (whose last name I forget) was the gunsmith who did the work on my gun just before he retired. I called him to thank him after I got the gun back.