Why is it called blued when it's black?

[bayouboy]

Pre-war Colt blue... they really were blue!

 

[Jim K]

Hi, mec,

That M1911 looks like a Turnbull restoration. Like some things they do, it looks great, but not original.

Jim

 

[CraigC]

Pre-War carbona bluing really is blue and is a gorgeous finish. Not to be confused with what the replica makers refer to as "charcoal blue", which is actually nitre bluing. Modern hot salt bluing is much more black.

 

[LKB3rd]

Find some pics of blue Pythons. A nice bluing is blue. It's a deep luscious dark blue, close to black, but its definitely blue. It will look more or less blue depending on the light. Without light to bring it out, it will look black.

 

[Dogguy]

Unfortunately, the bluing wore pretty easily and the guns rusted pretty quickly when the guns were used regularly. We used a lot more gun oil back then.

 

[mec]

the 1911 is the Colt wwI reproduction. Case hardening done by ( or for) colt. The USFA is done by Turnbull. Colt colllectors tell me that the 1911 repro, which appears darker under different lighting is a fairly accurate rendering bu that the brush/polish pattern is not the same as original pre 1920 1911s. In any case, it is pretty enough for me and, by virtue of an optimum out of the box trigger, shoots right along with a couple of custom 1911s I use.

 

[Olympus]

I've got several Royal Blue Colts and it's the prettiest navy blue color I've ever seen on a gun. It's extremely difficult to photograph a deep, high gloss blue to show the true color. A lot of work goes into producing a deep, high polish blue and a lot of it involves hand polishing. The process is more or less the same, but in an effort to cut costs, companies took out the hand polishing. That's one of the reasons you see so many matte blue finishes. It's also why you see polished flats and matte rounds on blued 1911s. It's a lot easier to polish a flat surface and you can do it quicker than you can the rounded areas. Time is money these days.


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[Cocked & Locked]

Some really are blue...or at least they look blue to me.