wiksmo
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I believe my post might be okay in this forum. If not, okay for Admins to move it along to the right spot.
I've been considering an upcoming winter kit-build project. Have my eye on a Traditions kit of a 50-Cal percussion pistol. So far in reading about what is involved in a kit-build, I have found very little info about leaving the barrel in-the-white. I have seen a web photo of someone's pistol build with a white barrel, and finishing the wood in a very light color. It looked pretty sharp. There was one build thread on another forum where the fellow said his choice was a white barrel. Nothing else but this bare-bones statement.
In an older MLF thread, "1750 Rifle Finish" posted on 3-9-06, Flintandsteel wrote:
<Left in the white, a gun will "age" by it self and get a real nice patina. This can also be accelerated by several methods.>
Again there was nothing further than a single comment. A photo was posted, but it remains quite blurry. Sure would have liked to read about "several methods." Anyway, I am wondering if anyone has done this with a barrel in a firearms kit-build, and what are your thoughts about this barrel "finish?"
TIA.
wiksmo
I've been considering an upcoming winter kit-build project. Have my eye on a Traditions kit of a 50-Cal percussion pistol. So far in reading about what is involved in a kit-build, I have found very little info about leaving the barrel in-the-white. I have seen a web photo of someone's pistol build with a white barrel, and finishing the wood in a very light color. It looked pretty sharp. There was one build thread on another forum where the fellow said his choice was a white barrel. Nothing else but this bare-bones statement.
In an older MLF thread, "1750 Rifle Finish" posted on 3-9-06, Flintandsteel wrote:
<Left in the white, a gun will "age" by it self and get a real nice patina. This can also be accelerated by several methods.>
Again there was nothing further than a single comment. A photo was posted, but it remains quite blurry. Sure would have liked to read about "several methods." Anyway, I am wondering if anyone has done this with a barrel in a firearms kit-build, and what are your thoughts about this barrel "finish?"
TIA.
wiksmo