[iloveguns]

Re blued my 1911 this weekend. I will try and get some pics up in the next couple of days. The really cool thing is it only cost me around $18 and it turned out pretty good. Plus the benefit of myself doing it for the first time makes it all that much greater.

[jeepcreep927]

Originally Posted by kdog

@ Fourn6,

what would you recomend to have my over 20 year old cz75 look sweet again?

It`s the painted version, and there are a few chippoffs.

Sell me that thing and get yourself a new one!

I like those "pre-b" pistols. Nice gun.

[Fourn6]

Kdog CZ -

Likely approach would be to remove all paint (I'd use MEK in a ziplock bag for 20 minutes or so to start - and use rags to pull off old paint and not remove any phosphate if it is there) - then just repaint to match the factory job - even with normal semi gloss black spray enamal paint it would work, or you could go with a higher preformance gun "kote" product. If it was phosphated first at the factory, it will be easy to tell and a repaint will stick quite well. If it was shiny bare metal, you can go a number of other directions with it - rust blue might look very nice with some fancy new grips....

That's all steel, right? Frame and slide?

[Fourn6]

love guns, what method did you use?

[iloveguns]

I used a rust blue remover and then just reblued it. Of course I used a lot of steel wool in between. Anyways here are some pictures The first 2 are of it stripped. If you would like to see what it looked like before I stripped it look towards the beginning of this thread.

[iloveguns]

And pics of it redone.