What a waste. Boyds "replacement" shotgun stocks

[Surpmil]

That is very nice looking rust bluing as you say. Did you do it or get it done somewhere?

[ssgross]

Did you do it or get it done somewhere?

Thank you. I do all my own rust bluing. Since I found myself doing it regular enough, In my Ithaca SxS thread I built a rig out of pvc tubes, some cheap PID controllers, and couple cartridge heaters off fleabay. In a thread now several years ago when I first started bluing I put some lesson's learned. I think the key takeaway was I never could get steam to give good results, although others swear by it. I use Mark Lee's Express solution almost exclusively now, but I have used others with just as good results. The real advantage is Mark Lee's solution rusts immediately when you go over the area you just wiped with a flame, and then converts in only about 1/2 to 2 minutes in the boil, depending on the type of steel. I've found 4-6 iterations is all it takes - also dependent on the type of steel. Any more than that and the metal will begin losing the perfect satin you made and start to look pickled but with no additional depth of color. A dip in plain kerosene is used after the last carding and then hung up to try overnight. The kerosene 1) is the best water displacing oil I have found and 2) leaves behind a film after it dries in the pores of the bluing, in effect "hardening" the finish and 3) it deepens the color, likely a consequence of (2).