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Pretty hard to get a handle on case colors in photos. However, the one photo appears to show the top lever and safety slide blued which certainly wouldn't be the way they left North 18th Street & Windrim Avenue!!

does not look like a high heat, bone charcoal recoloring job...

consequently, receiver metal integrity has most likely not been disturbed. gun should be safe to shoot with light loads without fear of receiver cracking or injury to shooter?

but then one never knows, does one? which is why receipts for refinish work are so important...have seen more than one old fox with cracked receiver, due to improper heat treating when receiver was recolored via high heat process.

That would be straight from the horses a$$...er...mouth

My sincerest apologies to Mr. Ed, but when slow pitched one over the plate it has long been my opinion that you swing for the fences.

Hey Ed Good, we've all seen those ugly guns with Psychedelic burned bullseyes done by you and Old Ed Lander with an acetylene torch. But you still haven't shown us any of those guns with cracked actions due to high heat bone color case hardening. Put up or shut up.

ANTI-GUN POSTS by ED GOOD

Edit: After looking at the Gunbroker pictures of this gun, I'm curious. Were the forearm irons of A H Fox guns of this vintage blued or case colored?

That's why Ed sells guns with a tail-light return policy. Oh, wait... In order for him to see your tail-lights, you would have to come to his shop, which he doesn't allow.

What also does not look right to me, IF, this were the original finish, are these things...The wear on the receiver is not commensurate with the wear on the forend....and..somebody has been inside this gun at LEAST a couple of times...screws all decent...but slightly buggered, and definitely not in time.

Case colored not blued.

I like the look of my cyanide re-done gun better than most of the bone charcoal restorations I've seen which have too much straw/blue colors and not enough red/rust.

Does cyanide hardening pose the risk of warping that bone charcoal hardening does?

No, it is not as high temp of a method. Take Parker Repros for example. On these guns, the bridge in the trigger plate is soldered in. This is no issue since the guns were cyanide colored originally. But if one were to have one bone charcoal case colored, the bridge has to be tack welded in to prevent it from falling out during the hardening process.

no one left, who did cyanide recoloring...seems like they died under mysterious circumstances...