Search results

In this thread we're going to be working on an abused 64-5 and learning about refinishing stainless steel. Things are going a little slow around here since the heart attack so an easy set of projects seemed to be in order. I did manage to survive "the treadmill from hell" yesterday, so things...

I've been wondering for a while what would happen if I tried only rebluing part of a gun and not the whole thing. We're all familiar with using cold blue for touchups.....can slow rust bluing be used the same way? My theory is that it depends. A big scratch right in the middle of an otherwise...

When I first started doing Smith & Wesson action jobs I was all over the place on spring weights. For the hammer spring, I would take each gun to the range and progressively back out the strain screw until I got misfires, turn the screw back in 1/4 turn past where the misfires stopped, and then...

There will be a slight delay in posting HomeSmith updates in the Smithing forum. I need to do some work on myself. I appear to have a timing problem….pretty sure that top line isn’t supposed to look like that. I’m home now and resting. When I know more, so will you.

How does HomeSmith spend his holidays? Working on guns, of course. Duh. :sneaky: I've been spending so much time on TrainWrecks lately that I've built up a backlog of nice guns that needed attention. Ok - maybe not just "lately". One of the guns that needed help has been in the safe since...

SWMBO (She Who Must Be Obeyed) took a liking to the 4" Regulation Police Target that I acquired recently, and then found out what it was worth and decided that it was just a pretty thing to look at.....and told me to find a cheap one and do what I do. With instructions like that and with our 25...

I snuck this one out the back door while y'all were napping. Based on what I paid, my guess is that everyone else just glanced at it and thought it was a 15-2 and that the description had a typo. The barrel profile should have been a hint, but hey - I'm not going to complain. According to...

I love finding guns that are described incorrectly. Check out my new Model 43….which looks surprisingly like a 5-screw K-22 with a single line ‘Made in USA’

Last year I picked up a 6" Regulation Police Target made in 1927 that was documented here. In the latest Amoskeag auction I had the opportunity to bid on the 6" gun's little brother....and today I picked it up. :D It didn't come with a letter, but the serial number is correct for the 196 post...

Sharp-eyed readers of the Rustbucket thread noticed that there was a second frame that went along for the ride during the metal finishing and bluing process. The second frame was another homely Model 15-3 that needed a facelift. I've done a few two-tone projects but most of those kind of...

I have a couple of other projects to get out of the way before I start this one, but this is such a magnificent specimen that I wanted to post some pictures so that everyone else could bask in the glory of a pristine, well cared for, never fired, new in the box Model 10-6. The previous owner...

Fantastic communications, quick shipping, excellent packaging....buy with confidence.

I try to watch every evidence-gun auction that I can find because you never know what will turn up. Last week amid all the Lorcins, Ravens, and HiPoints was a lot simply described as: "S&W Unknown" I suppose when you have 500+ plastic bottom feeders to work through that a big chunk of steel...

What did everyone get from the auction today? There seemed to be heavy action from the onsite bidders, but several online bidders were successful. I went to $2k on the .44 2nd Model Target and $2,750 on the K32 but failed miserably on both. Hopefully I wasn't bidding against mchom....that...

These things just keep showing up.... A friend of a friend had his Father pass recently and is in the process of selling off the firearms that the family doesn't want. There was one lonely Smith in the mix that had belonged to his Grandfather and was described as a "long barreled .38 with...

This .32 Hand Ejector Model of 1903 - First Change was found wandering around the bowels of the internet a few weeks ago and has been adopted into the Shotguncoach Home for Wayward Smiths. If I'm reading my Supica correctly, serial number 45885 puts him in the 1906 time frame. The last 119...

I didn't intend to start another project so soon, considering that Project 10-3 Fifty Seven still needs trigger work, but this feral Model 15 wandered by looking for help and I just had to take it in. "More than moderate aging" was the auction description. I think perhaps "crusty" would have...

Perusing the for sale ads looking for broken and/or ugly guns is one of my favorite ways to pass the time. This 4-screw model 10-3 was advertised as "does not function" and was cheap, so it became the latest resident for the Shotguncoach Home for Wayward Smiths. The 'does not function' part...

New year, new Trainwreck! Today's project was a re-rebuild. This gun was born in 1977 as a 15-4, then was rebuilt into a PPC gun by W. C. Cabell in Vermont. After a hopefully successful career in PPC, our poor subject fell on hard times, got addicted to meth, picked up a few diseases, and...

This wandered into range earlier this month and was just too neat to pass up. Any 5-screw N-frame gets my attention.....combining that with non-relieved diamond target stocks and a reasonable price tag resulted in yet another addition to the Home for Wayward Smith's. The serial number is...