barrel question
 

Said something on another thread got me to thinkin. If you hot blue a damascus barrel can if melt the soder? Fluid steel barrels must be welded. Were any damascus barrels ribs welded? If I have it all wrong please enlighten me. best ch

Both Damascus as well as fluid steel barrels and ribs were all soldered. Hot blueing can damage the solder on either type of barrels.

What method did Parker use to blue there barrels rust? And can you tell by the color the method that was used? Well have an opinion that is. Theres a G I like but the barrels are just to black for the frame color anything you can do abought that? The G barrels are rust blued. Thanks for telling me Dean, sometimes my trival questions are not answered<-- can't seem to get that word spelled right this mourning. maybe that is right? best ch

You spelled it right Calvin.

I wish there was a way that barrels could be rust blued to make them look better but not like they were recently reblued. It can be done by a handful of experts with Damascus barrels but not blued barrels that I know of - maybe Brad will respond to this.

Calvin
Slow Rusting is a progressive application process. Barrels start out grey and become increasingly black with each app. Smiths tend to be on the lighter side of the spectrum, where Parkers are a semi satin jet black.
The type of polishing and number of apps. will controll the end results. So it is possible to avoid freshly refinished apearance.

Brad

Thanks, that is good to know. ch