Rust Blued Winchester 67 COMPLETED!!!

[zesty]

Looking great. The whole process is pretty impressive.

 

[Sharps40]

Rust bluing is a right way to refinish a firearm. Everything else is mostly just paint and not well representative of the quality of the gun or of the gunsmith. Leave the paint for RedJacket.

 

[loadnplenty]

Here is cycle 3. Parts are still rusting good and taking on nice color. The three parts I show in the pic have been stubborn to rust. Not uncommon. The round piece is part of the bolt assembly and is solid. The other parts, sight and trigger guard are made out of a lower grade steel. They just need a little help so an additional application of Pilkington's half way through solves that issue.

 

[EMC45]

Looks velvety. Very nice.

 

[zesty]

Dang, I am going to have to refinish the stock on that gun now. Thanks again for the updates!

 

[loadnplenty]

Rust boil cycle 4 is done. Here are pics with parts beside each other for color comparison. I do this because some of the smaller pieces appear shinier by them selves. Everything is looking good and color appears balanced throughout.

 

[loadnplenty]

So after the fifth cycle no more color. In fact I had virtually no red rust even after applying another coat of pilkingtons. So carded and oiled. Gonna let it sit for awhile in oil.

Zesty I hope you like what you see!!!

 

[RamRoddoc]

Very nice it's really becoming a great looking rifle again.

 

[loadnplenty]

Here it is reassembled

 

[Sharps40]

Another very fine resto. Glad to see you picked up and ran with rust bluing. You do the craft proud and respect the heritage of the weapon with traditional bluing.

Now iffin I could just convince all of ya to stop painting good firearms........