I like Ken's idea. I restored a badly pitted and rusted prewar Browning Midas. These guns have some pretty large unengraved surfaces on the blued receiver, so the cleanup was a challenge. I chose to be very conservative with the cleanup, leaving both the engraving and some of the pits. That was undoubtedly the right decision. The gun is a wonderful restoration but not perfect. It would be a POC in my eyes if it were done "perfect". It would have also been very expensive. The entire restoration of the gold, the pitted receiver, and the bluing of the barrels was less than a thousand dollars, much less. Murphy
