I got tired of seeing the same old stock look to my fittings made by Angus Trim and had an extra set that I had bought from a member here. I went to the local gun store and bought 2 bottles of different stuff. The 1st was a bottle of Brichwood Casey Super Blue aka Liquid Gun Blue for $6.50. The 2nd bottle was also from Brichwood Casey but called Plum Brown aka Barrel Finish for $8.75. Directions are easy to follow and on the back of each bottle. The round pommel and bowtie guard had I put a bead blasted finish on and the other pommel I had place a high polish on so each reacted different to the solution.
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I made sure all fittings were free of buffing compound and other greases, place them on a metal pan that I covered in tin foil, heated the oven to 275F and let sit for around 5min then removed the tray and dipped a sponge in the Plum Brown and wiped the parts down until they stopped splattering then when they were cool enough to handle I washed them with water to remove the excess Plum Brown liquid and dried them off so they could sit over night to cure. A simple $8.75 new look

Looks cool! :D do you have any assembled pics of the atrim?

How about some ray-skin on that handle?

Just kidding... ...or am I? :)


:D :)
Sort-of a subdued black & white color scheme on the grip would be nice.

Or a simple, clean black handle.


Just opinions...

here are the fittings on the heavy Type XII that I just took late at night....the pommel has 2 coats and the guard 1so I could see the difference, if I dont like how they turn out then back to the glass bead blaster
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here is a pic of the glass bead blasted fittings before they were browned
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gas and glory..cheap and clean...unless you wana work the shovel and bellows for me :eek:

these were just test parts to see how different types of polish,basted or wire wheel brushed looked after blueing and browning, so if I bast 'em down again I'll do your way..just gotta document so I dont forget...and find the other pommel which it looks like one of the girls took to play with :wtf:

the Super Blue on the pommel + guard I did not care for and should have taken a picture to post..next time

I've been meaning to post on theis thread and keep forgetting were it is... to may forums I get lost...

Any way!

Ben; I have the same stuff, and have browned/blued a cross with it and got a much darker purple look than you did.

Here is what I did:

Scotch bright finnish (tho rough), washed with Dawn do degrease.

Pre-heated the oven to 150, oven's off guessing it's closer to 175, just hot anough so they did not spater but were to hot to handle.

Tossed parts in to dry and heat. Let sit abought 10 min.

Used a cotton swab to apply the blueing till it was cool to the touch, buffed with 00 steel whool and rinsed in cold water.

I did that 7-8 times and got a deap purple. I oiled them and let sit over night. I want to re do it, the cross I used was a machine blank and had a lot of surface iregularities, will probly come out better with a better finnish.

Big things difrent are you got a lot hotter than I did, did you do multiple coats or just the one?

Hey Joshua, On the browning pics above I did the guard 1x and the pommel 2x

This guard here was just blued cold. I rubbed down the guard with the green pad to clean it up then de-greased. While cold I used a sponge tip soaked with the blueing liquid and rubbed down the guard let sit for a few seconds and repeated 3x cold then cleaned with dishwashing soap and water finished with a coat of Master Formula wax
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