2-piper, thanks for the information on the case-coloring. As we had talked about case-hardening in another post, this will do nicely for what we were talking about.
It seems that some of the people here think that this is not an ethical thing to do. Like anything else, if you are trying to deceive someone by selling the firearm refinished, then yes it is deceitful. For your own personnel enjoyment then I think it is great, especially if you did it yourself.
I wonder how many people out there have bought what they think is an untouched gun, probably quite a few. You just don't find that many 80+ year old guns in pristine condition that the little old lady used only on weekends.
