Heym SR20
Well-Known Member
Rust Bluing the Stock Furniture
Whilst the stock oil has been drying and with Mrs Heym out and Listening to the cricket whilst working from home I have been doing bluing.
Essentially you take you steel parts, polish them up to 320 grit, degrease thoroughly, coat with a special bluing solution (lots of special recipes, I have some from a Scottish gunmaker - its probably Haggis piddle), let it rust and then convert the red rust to blue by boiling or steaming.
I have been using a kitchen steamer as both a humid rusting tank and then as a converter.
Above show them nice and rusty after about an hour
Then steam them hard for about 15 minutes and they look like this
They are kind of blotchy and covered with a black powdery residue, but then a soft wire brush and or 0000 wire wool you end up with
And after 9 cycles you end up with a deep blue black finish. After 4 its good, but the further ones make it deep enough to dive into
Whilst the stock oil has been drying and with Mrs Heym out and Listening to the cricket whilst working from home I have been doing bluing.
Essentially you take you steel parts, polish them up to 320 grit, degrease thoroughly, coat with a special bluing solution (lots of special recipes, I have some from a Scottish gunmaker - its probably Haggis piddle), let it rust and then convert the red rust to blue by boiling or steaming.
I have been using a kitchen steamer as both a humid rusting tank and then as a converter.
Above show them nice and rusty after about an hour
Then steam them hard for about 15 minutes and they look like this
They are kind of blotchy and covered with a black powdery residue, but then a soft wire brush and or 0000 wire wool you end up with
And after 9 cycles you end up with a deep blue black finish. After 4 its good, but the further ones make it deep enough to dive into