Customer only sent me the action, not the whole gun.Just seeing this one. We going to get to see it all back together?!
For all of them I do at my shop I use and EvenHeat oven, stainless crucible, 3:1 ratio of wood to bone charcoal, 1400 degrees, ramping for an hour and then a 2 hour dwell, quench in city water in a metal trash can. The Ithaca was the bluest I’ve gotten. The Parker had some decent colors, but a lot of lighter areas, so I revisited an old tempering technique which involves coating everything in oil and cooking it again at 400 or so to darken the straws to more of a brown. It did some interesting things, but it will likely be annealed and done again. Same gun will turn out different each time it’s done, even if no perceived process variation occurred. Very odd in that way.What did you use for the color job ? It looks good and the stripes on the tang of the Parker and the Ithaca are nice ,they do remind me of a couple of flame jobs I have seen but these are nice also
Beaver … do a search for NiceOldDouble’s post and just see his past works of art. He’s done two for me … and with proper vintage loaded shells they are shooters.Ok that makes sense, the bone and charcoal mix does give a nice look .are these firearms considered shooters for the occasional quail hunt or just decoration for the gun room?