[Pulp]

Bit of background. My brother got me this revolver for a birthday. An engraver shoots with him at the North Alabama Regulators, so he had a bit of engraving done on it. At Ambush a few years ago, after the match I left the gun in a holster, out in the sun. Something in the holster removed a bunch of blue, in little bitty spots. So I finally got the nerve to give it a try. I left the cylinder in the white, as I've read here that's the way the originals were, but in the photos it looks blue.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v504/BlackPowderPulp/HPIM1536.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v504/BlackPowderPulp/HPIM1538.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v504/BlackPowderPulp/HPIM1539.jpg

I'm pretty happy with the barrel, but not real thrilled with the frame. BTW I used the Birchwood Casey bluing kit.

[Voodoochile]

Looks good bud, the engraving looks sweet too wish I had a brother like that.

[madcratebuilder]

You have a great brother. I think that came out nice. The Walker was never meant to be a shiny revolver. If you don't like the color case hardening finish on the frame you can take it off with steel wool or a course 3M pad. It's a chemical finish not real CCH. Remove the fake cch and then put some Navel Jelly on it, that well leave a flat gray finish similar to french gray, or just leave it bare.

[sundance44s]

Looks real nice to me ..I really like the engraveing ..gives it a personal touch .
I am never happy with my blueing jobs ...one of these days I`ll get a vat and try some hot blueing .
There are alot of cold blues out there ..I think I`ve tried them all at one time or another .
One thing I like about these Italian made reproductions , there are room for improvements , and we all enjoy the work as much as shooting them .
Makes for a good hobby when its cold and wet outside .

[TomADC]

I used a WonderBlue kit on my Zouve, I like the way your Walker came out.

[GENTLEMAN OF THE CHARCOAL]

Look's pretty good....

[toolslinger]

Beauty. But you just made me want a Walker again, yet another further time....

[Elbert P . Suggins]

I bought a Whitneyville Walker made in 77 last month from a friend in Carson City Nevada who's father was a electrician on a U boat in WW2. Roni was born here after his parents moved here after the war but anyway his dad was into black powder kits. So he got this Walker in the 70s and put it together. One side story to this is he said his dad would bring it out at parties and shoot it off in the house with just a powder charge just for the hell of it and get a raise out of his guests. All fine and good except his wife damn near left him to go back to Germany because her parakeets would die from 60 grains of powder concussion in the kitchen! Well anyway, it was blued so I rapped it in a towel soaked in vinegar and took the blueing off everyplace that the towel touched for 20 minutes. Took it to the shower stall and turned on the hot water and steamed it for 10 minutes and put it out on the deck to dry. Wiped it down to a brown patina and than took my Leatherman and beat up the grips. It now looks like it come out of the Texas Ranger Museum and if it didn't have the word Italy stamped on it, it would confuse alot of gun enthusiasts.

[Snaggletooth]

You have a one of a kind. Nice engraving

[scrat]

Wow very nice job

[Wildfire]

Hey :
Go the next step . If that lettering is deep enough GOLD inlay it.
That would really set it off...
I have done this many times and that stuff holds forever.

You could also use Silver if you don't like Gold.

Once it is on there it never comes off. :evil: