heating frizzen

[makanaut]

I am going to build a box to fire blue barrels after reading the instructions in a past post. I would like to do the locks too but what do I do about the frizzen? I think the heat might affect it and if so what can I do instead to match it to the rest of the hardware?

 

[Roy]

A little cold blue to match it up better. :thumbsup:

 

[J.D.]

Heating the lockplate hot enough to fire blue would remove any hardness. Soft steel is not desired for any wear surface, and the plate certainly is a wear surface.

Old lockplates were usually finished in the white, as opposed to blued.
J.D.