[modeleng] Re: Filing, now O/T--Daggers & stuff

Jesse, it will require a high polish, just before I
Blue it a dark Blue-Black color.  Being a former
footslogger you will understand about how low light
reflectivity is a plus at times.

Al Messer

--- Jesse Livingston <fernj1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> No, Jesse, it is not Stainless Steel.  It is good
> old
>  fashioned high Carbon Solingen Steel.
> 
> Al Messer
> 
> 
> Al,
> 
> Give it a high polish and it will be almost as rust
> resistant as stainless. 
> I acquired an 1855 Colt revolving rifle that had
> been kept in a smokehouse. 
> Salt had rusted deeply into it in places, but the
> polished mainspring had 
> only a tiny dot or two of oxide on it.  Had to use a
> torch to build up some 
> of the more deeply pitted parts of the rifle, even
> had to make a full fluted 
> cylinder and yet, there was that mainspring
> glittering away.
> 
> Jesse in Tennessee USA
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