"Refinished" 1860 pietta.....

[Blackpowderwarrior]

Some of you who know me know I make a living wheeling and dealing in Furniture.

Much of my life ive made a decent living from distressing furniture then reselling it.

This is my cap and ball revolver distressing attempt on a 2019 pietta I had laying in the gun cabinent.

I added treso nipples and widened the loading fort for conical projectiles. Also added uberti rammer and honed internals.

I also purchased a stock to go with this gun as it really is a tack driver... I'm sure even more so with a stock

Hate it? Love it? Hate me? Fire away!

 

[Rebel Dave]

Looks good to me, nice job. I love tinkering with these guns, its really relaxing.
Dave

 

[1KPerDay]

I like it. Right side grip in particular looks very legit. Couple thoughts

1. If you're going through the trouble of "distressing" it you should remove the Pietta billboards on the barrel IMO
2. I'd get my hands muddy or greasy with black paint and handle the grips a bit. My originals and most I've seen have darker-looking wood rather than the red-stained, lighter-wood section where furniture laquer might rub off.
3. The original clearance on the barrel assembly for conical bullets is less rounded and more pointy at the front

Overall nice job IMO

 

[LaneP]

I think you done 'er right.

 

[Jim Watson]

A good start. Now draw and fire it enough that the wear is realistically uneven.

 

[hawg]

Not bad but you really should remove the Italian markings. This is my distressed Remington.

 

[1KPerDay]

That is cool!

 

[Blackpowderwarrior]

Thanks for the kind words.
I had around 2 hours to kill so this was a fun little project.

In relation to the loading port, I only had a small Campbell's soup can looking dremel attachment. The rest were oversized. I do plan on opening it up a little more once I run by lowes and get more dremel attachments.

Also will try my hand at defarbing one day

I love the grease/dirt idea on the grips I think I'll do exactly that. My initial idea was that
I have around 15 different "proprietary" touch up pens/paint I use in the industry and I thought about refinishing some bare spots on the grips with a perfect brown/ burnt cherry /walnut mix

 

[Eyrie G. Dogg]

Looks real nice, BPW. Good job. What methods did you use on the metal?

 

[doubleh]

Some of you who know me know I make a living wheeling and dealing in Furniture.

Much of my life ive made a decent living from distressing furniture then reselling it.

This is my cap and ball revolver distressing attempt on a 2019 pietta I had laying in the gun cabinent.

I added treso nipples and widened the loading fort for conical projectiles. Also added uberti rammer and honed internals.

I also purchased a stock to go with this gun as it really is a tack driver... I'm sure even more so with a stock

Hate it? Love it? Hate me? Fire away!

It looks a great deal like an original I have except for the grips. The grips on the Remington look much more authentic, a uniform dark brown.

 

[Eyrie G. Dogg]

Lookin good but deserves a piece of period correct leather to balance things out.

 

[Jackrabbit1957]

Now all you gotta do is get it tuned.....shameless plug for tuning services.

 

[Blackpowderwarrior]

Now all you gotta do is get it tuned.....shameless plug for tuning services.

@Jackrabbit1957
when I end up sending something your way it will be one of my ASM colt addressed barrel pistols. Those are very special to me.

 

[Blkhrt13]

Some of you who know me know I make a living wheeling and dealing in Furniture.

Much of my life ive made a decent living from distressing furniture then reselling it.

This is my cap and ball revolver distressing attempt on a 2019 pietta I had laying in the gun cabinent.

I added treso nipples and widened the loading fort for conical projectiles. Also added uberti rammer and honed internals.

I also purchased a stock to go with this gun as it really is a tack driver... I'm sure even more so with a stock

Hate it? Love it? Hate me? Fire away!

I like it. Looks sharp to me.

 

[Jackrabbit1957]

@Jackrabbit1957
when I end up sending something your way it will be one of my ASM colt addressed barrel pistols. Those are very special to me.

I have done a good handful of ASM revolvers and own half a dozen myself. I would be proud to do your revolvers.

 

[Blackpowderwarrior]

I have done a good handful of ASM revolvers and own half a dozen myself. I would be proud to do your revolvers.

ASM has a bad name around the internet. While the action of piettas and Ubertis are Leaps and bounds above my ASM's. I still prefer ASM over pietta or uberti.

The ASM I have just feel right. They are perfectly balanced and point like no other.
When cutting the crown on my revolver barrels I noticed the ASM barrel was Noticably harder to cut then my piettas.

My ASM pistols are all from the early 80's with the one exception from the "newest kid on the block" born in 1986.

 

[hawg]

My understanding is the older ASM's were better quality than the newest ones. They feel better because they're the same size as originals. Uberti's are bigger. Pietta's are even bigger.

 

[Blackpowderwarrior]

My understanding is the older ASM's were better quality than the newest ones. They feel better because they're the same size as originals. Uberti's are bigger. Pietta's are even bigger.

Hawg,

When holding my ASM 51 navy then holding my pietta theres no contest on which one feels the best.

 

[Black cloud]

Some of you who know me know I make a living wheeling and dealing in Furniture.

Much of my life ive made a decent living from distressing furniture then reselling it.

This is my cap and ball revolver distressing attempt on a 2019 pietta I had laying in the gun cabinent.

I added treso nipples and widened the loading fort for conical projectiles. Also added uberti rammer and honed internals.

I also purchased a stock to go with this gun as it really is a tack driver... I'm sure even more so with a stock

Hate it? Love it? Hate me? Fire away!

Some of you who know me know I make a living wheeling and dealing in Furniture.

Much of my life ive made a decent living from distressing furniture then reselling it.

This is my cap and ball revolver distressing attempt on a 2019 pietta I had laying in the gun cabinent.

I added treso nipples and widened the loading fort for conical projectiles. Also added uberti rammer and honed internals.

I also purchased a stock to go with this gun as it really is a tack driver... I'm sure even more so with a stock

Hate it? Love it? Hate me? Fire away!

I like it!

 

[Blackpowderwarrior]

Cut a "historically correct" crown in the ol' pietta yesterday.

 

[Zulch]

WOW!! Nice BPW. You are one industrious fella! my hats off to you. That looks fantastic!!

 

[Salvavita]

For reasons that should be obvious, I like the ITALIAN markings! This is my 2002 Pietta 1860 Army

 

[Eyrie G. Dogg]

That really is quite beautiful. Could use some instruction on how that's done. Great job.

 

[hawg]

Nice

 

[4v50 Gary]

Horrible, horrible, horrible. Mixed parts from two different makers. You should send it to me for disposal.

Consider express bluing it. Get it from Brownells and instructions are on the bottle. Polish it and follow the instructoins. All you need is a pan big enough to immerse it in boiling water but Ha! Last week, I just got the last big baking pan from the thrift store. You'll also need to card it.