Russ is bluing 6 trigger guards and screws for me at the moment. One Ithaca NID 10g Mag, one 20g Pieper hammergun and 4 Parkers. I used Andy's charcoal blue method for years. After his business' meltdown, we used to batch them up and send them to Turnbull for nitre blue. It was well done and very economical but I was never happy with the electric blue tint of some of the guards. Russ does a special polish job on them and hot blues them. They come out quite nice and they look very much like what I consider the "correct" nitre blue and no one has ever questioned their "correctness"...but then most folks don't really know, do they? I guess Russ and I being Model 21 men at heart don't mind "modern techniques" when restoring 'shooters"...
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