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I am close to the finish line on a restoration of a Remington Model 1894 BE 12 gauge with 30" Damascus barrels. It's not to a factory original standard because the gun is being restocked and the shape of the stock and the chequering patterns are not dead original for a BE grade gun.

However, I'm at the point where I need to think about the final finishing touches. The receiver is about to be sent out for CCH. And having never done a restoration of a Damascus barreled gun before, I'm wondering about the furniture. What would have been originally CCH, what would have been blued and is it any different than what I'm used to with fluid steel blued barrels because of the Damascus.

And given that it's not perfectly original, if anyone has some thoughts about what might look better than original, I'm interested in that as well.

On K and A quality Remington Hammerless Doubles everything but the barrels and triggers were color case hardened. On B quality and higher the top-lever and trigger guards were nitre blued but the top-lever screw and trigger guard screw were still color case hardened.

Have you found your CC guy. If you look at Remingtons they have very distinct colors. Very nice blues and light purples. If your man gets mostly straw, yellows, and greys it will not look good when done. I�m sure a few here can post original colors photos so you can see what you should be after. I see a few CC men who get what looks like yellow grapes on a muddy grey back ground.

This one has pretty strong color. I had one a while back that was even stronger, I'll see if I can find photos.
https://www.gunsinternational.com/guns-f...64&cdn_bp=1

Thanks for the head's up Jon. I'm in Canada, the choice is very limited and I'm quite happy with the guy I'm using. He's done other work for me before and it's pretty darn good. In fact I'm holding a Pieper 16 he did for me a couple years ago. The predominate colours are blues and purples with touches of straw and brown.

Thanks Researcher. Exactly what I wanted to know. So no difference if the barrels were Damascus or not.

Interesting gun Mark. Looks like someone whacked off the typical AE-Grade round knob and put on a grip cap.



I've seen a few like it, so wonder if the factory did it? A "normal" capped pistol grip on a Remington Hammerless Double ends with the grip cap at a different angle.

Here are a few pics of my unrestored B grade 1894 10ga. I cant seem to get my google photos in a shared album to show up, can somebody tell me what Im doing wrong?

My 1894 B album

[img:left]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/mqJ8qn...w=w1258-h944-no[/img]

Reb87

Very nice restoration. Remington manufactured some of the finest SxSs of that era.

Good shooting,
John

Reb87, Just trying to get clarification. Is that gun original or have the CCH been re-done. susjwp's post suggests it's been re-done and you are saying un-restored.

Beautiful gun either way!