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.