Cleaning Help

Get a package of 0000 (Extra Fine) Steel Wool, and a bottle of gun cleaning solvent. Hoppies #9, CLP, etc.

You can use those to remove all surface rust without harming the remaining bluing.

Use the steel wool & Lemon Oil Furniture Polish on the wood.

Heres more on rust:
http://www.brownells.com/aspx/NS/GunTech/NewsletterArchive.aspx?x=v&p=0&t=1&i=901&mc_ID=2013

If the rust is so bad as to require sandpaper & re-bluing, you are in over your head.

Cold blue is not a satisfactory finish as it won't stay on as long as it takes you to do it properly.

If the guns are worth anything, they would be worth having them professionally re-blued with a hot tank blue set-up, proper buffing polishing equipment, skill, knowledge, etc..

rc

An Ithaca SKB! Wow!
Thats really sad!
Those things have sky-rocketed in value over the years!

A double-gun will most likely have to be rust blued by a company specilizing in good quality shotguns. The barrels & ribs are soft soldered on, and hot-blue salts will dissolve it.

http://www.simmonsguns.com/Pricing.html

http://www.bosesofnebraska.com/rustfinish.html

rc

Not trying to hijack this thread, but what is rust blued?

And, how is it done?

Well, I couldn't swear to it that the SKB barrels & ribs were soft soldered. They might have been induction silver brased for all I know.

But what I am saying is, only a shop specilizing in re-bluing double guns would know for certain.

No hot-blue refinishing shop would chance dropping a double gun barrel in a bluing tank!

Bluing is rust.
Just fancy black rust!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluing_(steel)

Rust vis Hot Bluing:
http://www.theshootersroost.com/rustbluing.html

rc

RC, Thanks for the web sites.

I suggest you get a can of Kroils and some 0000 steel wool. The Kroils will do an amazing job on rust.

"Not trying to hijack this thread, but what is rust blued?

And, how is it done"

This is the brown coating you find on older weapons. It was originally done using Horse urine and allowing the metal to sit in some damp sawdust for a few days.

That is not correct.
What you are refering too is "Browning" and it is not the same thing as Rust Bluing.

Rust bluing is almost a satin blue-black, and you would find it on some older Winchester 21's, Parkers & L.C. Smiths, etc., as well as any best grade English double.

Browning w/Color Cased receiver:


Rust Blue barrels & receiver:


rc

RCMODEL...you're correct and i was under the assunption that he was referring to browning.

I love those old BLUED rifles, too bad they don't do that any more.