Final Update

Bluing and grips done. Shot it yesterday and still very heavy trigger. But was a fun project.

After

Before

You might be able to see all the rounding of the sharp edges that I did. Most noticeable is in front of trigger guard.

Project Update Two

Finally stripped off all the paint. Polished it up some more and decided to attempt bluing it. The best bluing process is 'hot' bluing and takes several different nasty chemicals, I am not doing that. I bought a 2 oz tube of Birchwood Casey bluing paste. This process is called 'cold' bluing and is not ad deep and strong a finish. This is not a problem as this was, and is, a POS hand gun. I also did a bit more work on the grips and they are really close to being complete. Here it is now:

The bluing will take another coat and I am not showing the other side. The other side include the side plate that you remove to get to the internals. It is made of a different metal and did not come out like I wanted. I'll have to figure out what to do about it.

I shot it on Thursday and still had some FTF. They all fired the second time around. So I just keep pulling the trigger until I get 7 bangs. Hopefully it's due to old ammo. I did polish up the hammer and spring rod and it smoothed out the trigger pull a lot. I have found another spring that will fit and it is lighter so I am going to try that out after I fine some 22LR ammo.

Project Update

The gun needs to be refinished. I made an attempt at painting it with high temp black paint. I didn't like the way it looked so I stripped it all off and ended up with what you see below. I also decided to make some grips for it as the plastic ones make a cheap gun look even cheaper. 

So here is what I have done so far:

With a file I rounded all the sharp edges. All edges were sharp.

Stripped off old finish and paint, haven't done the cylinder yet and I probably will strip it soon. Polished everything.

While cleaning it up I broke off one of the screw attachments that goes through the hammer and acts as hammer pivot. I fixed that with a 5/32 drill bit and taper roll pin. I need to clean that up.

Started on the wood grips. They still need some work for final fit. 

Here is where we are now: