Unusual Dark Finish:
Of my many Damascus shotguns these barrels have the most unique almost gun blue finish. It could just be the outdoor lighting in the first photo, though they are dark regardless.
I asked Breck about them, he thought perhaps exposure to UV light. I didn’t think these barrels had seen the light of day for a very long time, based on how much oxidation I removed with an oily Frontier Pad. It wasn’t red oxidation, it was black.
They sure are strikingly different from what I’m accustomed to. I wonder if they looked like that 116 years ago.
__________________
Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead, forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell and the profit and loss.
A current under sea picked his bones in whispers. As he rose and fell he passed the stages of his age and youth entering the whirlpool. Gentile or Jew O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
T.S. Eliot
|