Brad I have not done it myself but have read that various products such as tung oil and perhaps certain spray on varnish products can be applied to the metal parts to protect the delicate colors from being removed by friction and the oils from your hands. Hopefully someone with some experience with this process will chime in.

Brad, Repo colors wear very quickly no matter what you do, so do what all of us have done and use the gun and enjoy it for what it was made for. :) The colors on these guns fade or are worn down very quickly so unless you don't want to use the gun and have it a safe queen just enjoy it they are great guns.....

Dean and I were talking about this today. I thought that once my Repros colors were gone that would be the time to strip the wood and put a nice oil finish on the gun.They could wear together and the gun would be about perfect...


I think I will just send it to Dave Fuller at that point.....:bowdown:

Eric,

There is no way this gun will be a safe queen. I can't afford to spend this kind of money and then not enjoy the gun for the purpose it was made for. That's like someone buying a new pickup truck and not hauling anything in it because they're afraid to scratch the bed. If everything goes well I will be in the woods with it Saturday.

Dean,

I'm going to try to keep the case color wear to a minimum. But, if it wears off it wears off. As far as I am concerned right now the only way I would sell it is if I needed to put food on the table and that was the only way to do it.

Brad

I took semi-chrome to my Repro a couple of years ago, just to be done with it. The only thing I don't like is the resulting chrome like appearance of the receiver. I believe I have talked my self into having the case re-done and so I'll probably be dropping it off with Brad B next week. I will post pictures of the finished (or should I say re-finished product).

JDG

Thanks for the tip Jay. I think I will just let it wear off through use.