Blue Wonder Gun Blue
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Howard Roark
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I've used it and don't really like it. It's kind if "inky". It sat on top of the metal more than than colored it. I went back to Brownels Oxpho Blue. I keep several different blueing solutions because they all work differently on different metals.
krs
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I tried it too and din't like it either.
I can copy Howard's "I keep several different blueing solutions because they all work differently on different metals".
I use the cold blues for touchups and small things like screw heads. For the most steels I have best results with either Oxpho Blue, Birchwood Casey's "Super Blue", or Wheeler's "Premier".
None are predictably effective on a particular piece because there are a lot of types of steel. Even the source of the ore used to make the steel can be a variable (Swedish steel blues pretty nicely with Oxpho, but German steel usually won't except on Walther parts, probably because they used imported Swedish steel.
No cold blue will give a lasting overall satisfactory finish, IMO.
I can copy Howard's "I keep several different blueing solutions because they all work differently on different metals".
I use the cold blues for touchups and small things like screw heads. For the most steels I have best results with either Oxpho Blue, Birchwood Casey's "Super Blue", or Wheeler's "Premier".
None are predictably effective on a particular piece because there are a lot of types of steel. Even the source of the ore used to make the steel can be a variable (Swedish steel blues pretty nicely with Oxpho, but German steel usually won't except on Walther parts, probably because they used imported Swedish steel.
No cold blue will give a lasting overall satisfactory finish, IMO.
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