I'm rebluing the barrels of an Iver Johnson Hercules, which came to me pitted/rusty on the exterior (bores are perfect), and bearing the marks of a previous owner's attempts to sand it clean. After striking them, and working down through the grits to 400x (getting rid of 99% of the corruption in the process), I started the rust bluing cycles and am about halfway there- it's looking great after only three rustings. What concerns me are the traces of shiny soft solder exposed in the joints of both the top and bottom ribs. Not egregious, but noticeable in a couple spots an inch or so long. Short of going back to the abrasives at this point, is there a trick that I can use to camouflage them? I realize it is a low/mid-level gun and perhaps it looked this way from the factory 80 years ago and I shouldn't trouble myself over it, but still...
Last edited by Gary D.; 11/07/12 11:18 AM.
