Sad Looking Model 27-2

[Jim R]

We have a local gunsmith that has been doing some custom work on firearms.
Here is what he has up for sale in Armslist for $900.00.


Here is the ad:
Have a beautiful model 27 custom shop in electroless nickle finish. It is a dash 2 and 4 in barrel. COCOBOLO type grips. Well balanced. Been a safe queen for years.


http://smith-wessonforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=137292&stc=1&d=1388557453
http://smith-wessonforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=137293&stc=1&d=1388557453

 

[jjbrewst1]

It's a 3.5 inch not a 4 and that is the worst electroless nickel I have ever seen. Looks like the finish melting off it. Like a bad sunburn. Electroless nickel should shine. Isn't that what Colt used for there Nickel revolvers

 

[chud333]

Man that is UGLY !!!!
Can a gunsmiths license be revoked ????

Chuck

 

[BC38]

We have a local gunsmith that has been doing some custom work on firearms.

Ummmm, yeah....
That's "custom" alright.

Here is the ad:

Have a beautiful model 27 custom shop in electroless nickle finish. It is a dash 2 and 4 in barrel. COCOBOLO type grips. Well balanced. Been a safe queen for years.

Really?!? Where was the safe kept? In a stateroom of the Titanic? Looks like the electroless nickle was applied over severe rust pitting...

 

[alaskavett]

That my friends is not "Custom gun Work"... That is the work of " Bubba the Butcher"! That is interesting that it is posted for sale.... Seriously, who is going to buy that unless it is a new form of project gun that I'm not aware of... Anyone? Kyle

 

[KEN L]

Yeah, but come on, it's only $900.00!

 

[steamloco76]

I've seen Taiwanese cap pistols in the dollar store with better nickel plating. I guess Gunsmith is a generic term these days?
$900- no! maybe 900 Pesos

 

[Hapworth]

I'm guessing it was rusted badly, bead blasted with some exceptionally coarse media, then nickeled. Ugh.

The nickeling looks ridiculously thick, though that might a trick of the eye caused by how the metal was prepared. Nonetheless, I'd be worried about critical dimensions (among other things).

 

[Art Doc]

Either a horrible plating job (and IMO a good plating job would still be horrible as I find this type of finish an abomination) or the gun is badly corroded under the plating or it's just a terrible photo.

$900? Some fool will buy it.

 

[kenjen]

looks to me like it was duracoated.

 

[cbvanb]

The ugliness is too uniform to be caused by bad metal prep. It has to be the plating. My guess is it got dunked at the local bumper re-plating shop. Critical dimensions are likely all out of whack on this one.

 

[O2Guy]

Y'all sure that it just ain't covered with aluminum foil?

 

[Twogunnes]

I believe that looser is satin nickel.

Good reason to loose that phone number

 

[Engineer1911]

Just no appreciation for a fine floral bedspread. Ignore the M27.

 

[Rick_A]

Looks like the hard chrome on a cheap Chinese Harbor Freight tool set.

 

[jack the toad]

pathetic blasphemy
custom gunsmith??? not in my books

 

[Jim R]

I want you guys to be respectful of this "Custom" work. I sent a link to this posting to the craftsman that did the work on that "Safe Queen" model 27.

When I saw this ad last night something about it looked like an old memory floating around in the back of my head, then the light came on. When I was in high school back in the 60's a kid down the street painted a 1928 Ford with the attachment from a Kirby Vacuum cleaner. It had the most perfect orange peel finish you ever seen. I now know where that vacuum cleaner is.

 

[Lonegle57]

spray paint on a humid day?

 

[shawn mccarver]

It's a 3.5 inch not a 4 and that is the worst electroless nickel I have ever seen. Looks like the finish melting off it. Like a bad sunburn. Electroless nickel should shine. Isn't that what Colt used for there Nickel revolvers

Electroless nickel, as a factory finish from Colt, has typically resembled "battleship gray." That is what my Colt Commander (obtained directly from Colt with the electroless nickel as a factory finish) looked like. Colt nickel, on the other hand, has the high polish look with the mirror bright polish. Colt also did an "Ultimate Stainless" which was stainless steel polished mirror bright, but without any sort of "finish" per se - it was just the stainless steel given a high, bright polish.

Part of the problem with the pictures of the unfortunate Model 27 is that they appear "grainy" which is what I believe is causing the finish to look so bad.

The finish may not be bad in itself - it might be poor quality photos. Applied to that fine Model 27, instead of a proper restoration - it is an abomination.

 

[glenncal1]

I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.....