Blue Sky Garrand refinish.

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My Blue Sky M1 Garrand is looking pretty shabby. The parkerized receiver looks pretty good as does the trigger guard and bottom metal but all other metal has paint that is in pretty bad shape. The wood is beat up with dings and gouges (there are no cartouches or markings of any kind). This is a Springfield Armory in the upper 2 million series. I have a few options to choose from. Glass bead and hot blue, gloss black (Brownell's Baking Lacquer #083-046-802) or Brownell's Aluma-Hyde 2 in O. D. green (#083-002-312). I'm just thinking out loud here. Any thoughts?
 
OD green would be cool, IMO.

Or you can send it to Shuff's and get it reparked.

But blued garands look really cool also.
 
Thanks for the suggestion 1K. Reparking is an option but not one that I am able to do myself at this time. Those that I mentioned are things I can do without additional expense. The OD green has had appeal for me for a long time but the Aluma-Hyde2 takes a good 2 weeks to cure while the bluing or baked lacquer can be completed in less than a day. I'm thinking maybe getting baking lacquer in OD might be another option.
 
Personally I'd just leave it as-is and shoot it and enjoy it. Beat-up Garands look cool. You can always get another one if you want a looker. :D

One more thing to consider is how durable the baked laquer would be in the op-rod track... would it start to chip/wear quickly there?
 
I'm thinking more towards leaving the receiver and bottm metal alone and using the black lacquer on the incidental parts ie; butt plate, bands and swivels,etc.
 
Ah. Good idear.

If'n you go OD green, then, I'd do the entire thing. It'd be a bit weird with parked receiver/TG and OD misc parts. black or blued would be fine on those parts, IMO.
 
I refinished a Blue Sky many years ago. On mine the import mark was lightly stamped. I peened out the marks before I parkerized it. I used Brownell parkerizing and blackened 1st.
This rifle was a WW2 mostly matching rifle with a locking bar sight. I just couldn't stand the import marks. It's a great shooter.
I used the Brownell's Gun-Kote. It's a bake on finish so you need a large oven for a gun that size.
 
OK, So if its what you "want " to do why are you asking?
IMO any of your choices will not look good.
 
So if its what you "want " to do why are you asking?
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That's true I did ask....But it has nothing to do with whether it is affordable or not. This is an imported rifle, it has parts that are blued, parts that are parkerized and parts that are painted....so what constitutes doing it correctly?
 
All parts would have been parkerized originally except for early extractors ,detents
 
All parts would have been parkerized originally except for early extractors ,detents
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I like the idea of reparking it but that isn't something I'm set up to do myself which is one of the requirements for this refinish. The good thing about all the options being considered is that they are all reversible if I change my mind.
 
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