I have noticed all your rifles seem to have very good finish on the metal. Did you find them that way, or have you had them reblued? When you do reblue, what is your criteria for judging when the original finish is bad enough to warrant it.
Thanks
Well the Adolph above was a restoration starting with a stock only so that's a new rust blue. I was very selective in the early years when not a lot of people were buying these so I got some good ones. Terry found G&H 119 at a west coast auction house and sold it to me. This rifle for whatever reason had been polished with a wire wheel until everything had been rounded off and the all the holes had been dished out then hot blued. The stock has some kind of oil finish that had formed a dirty rough surface. Anyway you get the idea the rifle was a mess and I did the work on it and then had it re-blued but that's the only one. If I can find some pictures I'll post them. I have not re-blued the Johnson rifle, which is brown, and don't think I will.
