SS FORGIVES

[Deceasedeye]

I came across a 686 that someone had done a homemade engraving job on. The kind of shallow engraving you see on some jewelry. I went to work with some extra fine grit wet-dry sandpaper and I was amazed. Looking at the gun now nobody would ever know that this gun had been abused so. I am now a big stainless fan, it's almost as forgiving as rover.

 

[Pine_Worker]

What, no pictures?

 

[Deceasedeye]

What, no pictures?

Oakey Doakey!

 

[dmthomp32]

This is why I love stainless revolvers. Most of them can really clean up well and look nice again. Nice work.

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[Pine_Worker]

Looks good!

 

[Deceasedeye]

A few hours rubbing with Mother's aluminium polish will make a real fingerprint magnet of it!

 

[Rammer Jammer]

Cleaned up well. I prefer stainless because it is so forgiving and you don't have to worry about blueing and all that can go wrong with it.

 

[brucev]

Re: Op. Excellent reworking of the finish! Sincerely. bruce.

 

[wood714]

I bought a 686 that had honestly been used as a truck gun. It cleaned up too good.

Had a 4" 65 that was a previous service gun of some sorts. They chiseled the serial number under the barrel. Was trying to trade it towards a LNIB no dash 67. Dude said the serial number was a deal breaker for him. Thought about a way to remove it. No sand paper would ever touch it, so I got out a fine file and went to work. Next day I had a killer model 67.

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[hemiram]

That weak engraving on that gun wouldn't even make me pause if the price was good. Super easy to make disappear..

 

[white cloud]

I really like a nice blued rifle, pistol or shotgun with a walnut furniture. However stainless or whatever Glock uses is my choice for working firearms.

 

[OLDSTER]

Yep, nice job: SS is nice to work with; bluing not so much; and as much as I love a beautiful nickel revolver ( I own only one), other than some gentle polishing, you get what you get.

 

[stansdds]

Stainless is an easy to maintain finish and small imperfections or shallow engravings are often easy to remove. The lack of having to re-blue or re-plate makes working on stainless firearms much easier.

 

[mikerjf]

I'm in the midst of removing some stippling off a 60, and am amazed at the results so far. Not that it's easy!