681 PC

[snowman.45]

I haven't been on the forum much, lately. Upon logging in today, I found that I had some messages received some time back in regard to my 681 PC that had the Birdsong Black T and Green T finish on it until I removed it. There were several requests for photos, so I'm going to try to attach a photo from my files as photo hosting program I used to use is no longer working.

 

[guskody]

681pc

Love it.

How did you remove the green and black finish?

 

[cometpx4]

681PC

I just paid a premium to get an NIB 681 with the Birdsong black and green finish. I have been looking for one for years and finally found one. Having owned dozens of revolvers i just wanted to add something a little different to the collection. It shoot great too.
At least now i know what mine will look like if i ever want to take the finish off. It looks good-Is that just the bare stainless finish or is it refinished with something in your pic??

 

[Dave T]

I have one too and it shows a lot of holster wear so it's an ugly gun (black & green...yuck!) that now looks well worn. My gunsmith said it would be relatively simple to bead blast it down to the stainless, which would look like what the OP had done. If it didn't cost over $100 to ship it both ways I'd have had it done by now.

Dave

 

[Curiousnewbie]

Wow, that is a great looking gun. That is one of my dream guns. Thank you for posting a picture of it.

 

[mag318]

Looks better in stainless and will wear better. Very nice.....

 

[snowman.45]

Well, fellas. Let me see if I can answer a few of these questions. I used 120 grit aluminum oxide as the blasting agent at 25 psi after a complete disassembly of the gun. What you see in the photo is the finished product with no other coating. The aluminum oxide tends to give the gun a little darker grey finish than bead blasting would. I prefer that look, but could always go back and bead blast to clean it up, if I felt the need.

 

[snowman.45]

Dave T, if you know anyone with a blasting cabinet, it's very easy to do. Just completely disassemble the gun; I mean every pin, spring and hidden component, and use a relatively low pressure setting. If you don't completely disassemble the gun, you'll get grit in places you don't want it and it will be hard to get out, like in the foreword cylinder pin in the shroud. It's worth the extra time and effort to keep this kind of thing from happening.