New life to an old gun

In this video I take an old shotgun with a really bad paint job and strip it down to bare material. I then work on bringing life back to it with out ruining character. Thanks for hanging with us!
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[@ronnaldwestbrook9967]

Great job in cold blue I've had better luck with the paste

[@cavscout888]

Hate to have to tell you this... but most everything you did to it was really wrong and bad. Every part was rather decently mega-bubba'd. You may have made everything on it forever irreversibly worse. Maybe. The issue... I don't think near enough research took place. Some issues... That 'cold blue' isn't really bluing, as coats with copper and then acid etches the copper plating, and has little to no rust resistance. Even down to the choice of screwdriver, likely crapped up every screw head slot. Worst of all was probably the wire wheel, and is the exact thing most gun people tell people NOT to use. Can easily make gouge marks in steel.
Just being honest and letting you know. You should do a lot more research before doing this more, purely to limit damage to the guns.
'Scraper' use on the stock was almost good. A professional gunsmith would have used paint remover to bubble up the paint some to then make scraping (with real scraper) easier. Also then used a brass brush to clear out the checkering, brushing the loosened paint from between the diamonds.
Yep, field grade, more-mass produced guns often had pressed checkering. But... using a checkering cutting tool to chase the pressed checkering can make that much nicer very quickly/easily/properly. Turns it into real, cut checkering.
I've made plenty of gun mistakes. Removed original rust bluing from old collectible military arms, buggered screws, etc. I didn't record them and so didn't have to get told how bad I did. Too bad, because I would have learned faster if I had. Mistakes get made, and you eventually get good enough to avoid or fix the mistakes. Odds are much better a gun dies to rusting away than to wire wheeled barrels, buggered screw slots, and cold blue. So that's something for sure. I've seen barrels full of guns that died to rust in people's collections, closets, garages, etc.
If you are as passionate as you seem about conservation or restoration of guns, keep at it. But do the research. A place to start is "Anvil 035: Chamelot Delvigne conservation and refurb" on Mark Novak's channel.

[@homebuilt8694]

I was pleased with it, and proud of what I was able to do with. I appreciate the comment and the concern for my work. If it were anything of any value or significance I would probably have went about it in a different manner. It was a painted 20 dollar shotgun that I was happy to bring some life back to. I can appreciate someone taking time to extensively research things before getting involved. I like to do some research and go to work and learn. There are few teachers like real world experience. I do appreciate you watching the video and the feedback. Hope to see you on other videos. Take care