Jerry, I thought you and I discussed that issue in Omaha and we advised to be careful if you ran into a damascus gun that had been blued. Yes, the bluing can be removed but the problem would be if the gun had been hot blued, if which case bluing salts could have gotten beneath the ribs and caused corrosion and the ribs may be loose. So, if you find a blued damascus barrel, be careful and make sure the ribs aren't loose and you don't have corrosion . I looked at a set of blued damascus barrels for a fellow and when you rotated the barrels up and down you could hear the rust sliding on the inside. Apart from that, the bluing can be easily removed . Dale has had a number of those barrels to redo. Ribs can be relaid but that costs. What is nasty is bad corrosion between the barrels.
There are a lot of gunsmiths who don't know that double barrels should not be hot blued and they do a hot tank like for a single barrel gun. And if a gunsmith is going to blue a damascus barrel, you have to suspect his knowledge is limited.
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