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Title: Blueing Questions
Post by: gables on June 13, 2011, 10:44:00 AM

I recently used the Casey Cold Blue on a couple of pieces of 5160 for accents on a knife. I got fair results.

Do some steels blue better than others because of the alloy mixture?

How should I get started with hot blueing?

Title: Re: Blueing Questions
Post by: Roughcountry on June 13, 2011, 11:25:00 AM

Brownells has a book with about 75 ways for blueing or browning.It's not to costly. They also have lots of supplies. Maybe someone will chime in that has hands on advice.

Title: Re: Blueing Questions
Post by: skullworks on June 13, 2011, 06:14:00 PM

Karl Anderson does a lot of blueing. Might want to PM him.