My content is being removed from multiple sites & censored by Facebook. - For eight years I have attempted to write positively about lawful gun ownership .. 1,661 online posts so far.
I am being shut down and shut-up.
We can no longer buy imported U S GUN MAGAZINES such as Guns & Ammo in New Zealand ..
If you wish me to try to continue - please SHARE and repost my pieces - otherwise it will end.
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I like to try fix and improve rusty old antique pistols bought cheaply. - I have read about the issues and I am trying my best to not eff-up anything that I get my hands on.
I have watched Youtube videos of morons restoring various guns by sand-blasting them and "polishing" them using belt sanders .. cold-bluing the now scrap metal over the new scratchings before cutting-out replacement grips from firewood covered in polyurathane varnish - while videoing the whole disasterous 'assault & battery' for public show .. expecting comments to praise their workmanship.
I've even watched a U S "professional Restoration business" take a big old Webley revolver .. grind-off every surface back to new metal before 're-finishing' it on a buffing wheel and 're-blueing' the whole machine a deep, chemical black before proudly rotating it before the camera to display the skills they offer to the shooting world.
Naturally there are 'variables' and different circumstances to consider. - A rusted old "Two-Two" being repaired and prettied-up for on-going rabbit control & harvesting, is different to a 100 year old historic Webley .. or different again from a 18th Century antique Flintlock arm - hand built with fine engraving.
To be frank - I'm personally not so worried much about DOLLAR VALUES - I've never had money & it's too late now .. but I am more interested in looking after and conserving and improving what there is in my hands. This stuff may be UNIQUE and worth cherishing eh. I believe one "essential" here is to stop all ongoing active rusting.
- Now looking at the next image - it is clear that there (someone) has been 'refinishing' and destroying much patina & original finish, of what might have been, if more cherished over the centuries, a fine antique.
- I confess.
.. But, - what you cannot see here is how bad this lovely old lady was before I started to scrape off lumps of encrusted rusty carbuncles and pustules of active corrosion from it's hard metal surfaces .. I truly thought that barrel was SCRAP junk ..
My pics don't really show how rotten & awful this wreckage was .. Yeah lousy photography.Maybe I've somewhat improved a rusty relic by excising and killing the rot ? - perhaps I've made it worse and destroyed all of it's value .. dunno.