- Jul 18, 2012
- 12,997
- 5,248
All clean.
Carbonia blue... in my estimation the greatest gun finish of all time.
They would bathe the steel in boiling gas to degrease it. Then in a gas furnace combine carbon, sperm whale oil and some other proprietary secret stuff that was allegedly lost when the original Colt factory burned to the ground. After that they started using cyanide and nitride fire blueing methods as well as new different charcoal methods. Then they used wooden dowel wheels with gas soaked walrus hide to polish the guns to almost mirror but not quite. The end product was obscenely beautiful but Colt was after military contracts and they didnt want blingy high cost guns so in came parkerization. Anyway I'm trying to buy every pre 1922 Royal Blue Colt I can afford. No doubt in my mind they'll all be worth 10x what I pay now someday.
Someone bought this TWO years ago for 3500... itd easily sell for 7 today. :smh