New questions! This time about a Smith & Wesson Model 15

[Etalksalot]

So my first Smith was a gorgeous 15-3 snub in a blued finish and it is flawless, unbelievable looking. I have seen nice nickel snubs, but in all my research I have concluded smith didn't make a 67 snubbie. However, before I saw a picture of one, but it had no pinned barrel and it had a night sight glow in the dark kind of thing, and I assumed it was after market. Today however I saw a stainless model 15-3 that had a pinned barrel and looked just like mine. It's gotta be a refinished gun, but I just want to be sure as I don't yet have my SCSW. They didn't make a snub 67 that looked like early snub 15's correct? I assume the one I just saw online today must be a refinish because it said 15-and it had a matte finish stainless job, not like the early smith stainless that had a little bit of metallic look to it. Anyone ever seen a stainless 15 snub?

 

[Muley Gil]

It may look like stainless, but it isn't stainless. Stainless revolvers are in the "6" grouping, like the Model 60, 63, 64, 65, 66, etc. It has probably been refinished with Armaloy or Metalife.

 

[JP@AK]

Muley is right. The Model 15, by definition, is a carbon steel gun. The finish may be something that looks like stainless, but the underlying metal is carbon steel.

 

[Jim NNN]

I recently saw a model 10 on an online auction site that was described as stainless, and looked (from the photos) stainless, but wasn't. At first I was interested in buying it as a mismarked model 64, but after some research, I concluded that it was a model 10 with some sort of matte nickel finish.

Some of that research led me to this forum which had pics of people's guns that had been refinished. One of the refinished guns looked just about like the model 10 I was looking at. The owner of that gun said he thought his revolver may have been replated in a brushed hard chrome, but who knows. Try searching the forum for pics. You could type in "stainless vs. satin nickel" or something.

 

[Etalksalot]

It may look like stainless, but it isn't stainless. Stainless revolvers are in the "6" grouping, like the Model 60, 63, 64, 65, 66, etc. It has probably been refinished with Armaloy or Metalife.

Yeah, the 15 in stainless is a 67, I figured it's probably redone

 

[Etalksalot]

Muley is right. The Model 15, by definition, is a carbon steel gun. The finish may be something that looks like stainless, but the underlying metal is carbon steel.

True, I think it was just a refinished 15. I have trouble adding pics 9n here otherwise I'd just display it.

 

[Etalksalot]

I recently saw a model 10 on an online auction site that was described as stainless, and looked (from the photos) stainless, but wasn't. At first I was interested in buying it as a mismarked model 64, but after some research, I concluded that it was a model 10 with some sort of matte nickel finish.

Some of that research led me to this forum which had pics of people's guns that had been refinished. One of the refinished guns looked just about like the model 10 I was looking at. The owner of that gun said he thought his revolver may have been replated in a brushed hard chrome, but who knows. Try searching the forum for pics. You could type in "stainless vs. satin nickel" or something.

Thanks. That sounds like a good idea. Colt made those electroless nickel Detective Specials in the 90's that had a similar finish. I don't think any were made, but I guess what I was really asking everyo was did they make a snub model 67? I know there isn't a stainless 15, and I'm sure the one I saw was a refinished 15,bit I'm wondering really is there a snub model 67??

 

[Etalksalot]

I think I might've been misleading in my original question. I'm pretty positive that the gun I saw was a refinished 15, I know they don't make stainless model 15's, that would be a model 67, but I have been trying to find out if smith ever made any snub model 67's?? I love the 15 snub, I want a nickel one day as well, but if they made a snub 67 I'd like to buy one of them too, but I don't think they made one from what I've seen.

 

[MikeLeitner]

I think that the only way to obtain one would be to purchase a 4" and a hacksaw blade.

 

[GerSan69]

I had a 2" 15 round-butted and Armoloyed back in the late 70s-early 80s, so there's at least one out there!

 

[Etalksalot]

I think that the only way to obtain one would be to purchase a 4" and a hacksaw blade.

Thanks, I didn't think there'd be any made as a 67. I appreciate it.

 

[Etalksalot]

I had a 2" 15 round-butted and Armoloyed back in the late 70s-early 80s, so there's at least one out there!

Gotcha. I wish I had a blued or nickel round butt one. The pictures I saw of one looked great though ironically it had a new cylinder release but was a -3, weird. Must've changed that too on it.

 

[H Richard]

This is a Mod 19-4 with a "Metaloy" (Industrial hard chrome) finish. It does look quite like a bead blast stainless finish.