Refinishing a Western Field model 45

I bought this Western Field model 45 with a lot of 6 guns from a friend of my Father. After some research I was able to determine this was a Savage made rifle (a variant of the model 4?)

Anyway it need to be refinished, so I polished and reblued the steel parts, then added a soft rubber butt pad and refinished the wood.

Here are the before and after pictures

https://i.imgur.com/ayXzyvTl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/dD3JxLCl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/KFDCXltl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/whbtRO9l.jpg

Here are the blog posts documenting the restoration

https://tincanbandit.blogspot.com/20...ct-part-1.html

https://tincanbandit.blogspot.com/20...ct-part-2.html

https://tincanbandit.blogspot.com/20...ct-part-3.html



For the record, I am not a professional gunsmith, I am merely a student of the art and a hobbyist.

Your refinishing efforts are rematkable!! I love bringing back the old timers to their former glory, they have so much more character than anything new and usually shoot better, too!! What type of blue do you use??

I use the hot salts method, I have a two tank system (one for bluing salts, Sodium Hydroxide and Sodium Nitrate) and one for hot water, I need to add a third tank for cleaning solvent.

Hot is the way to go if you do a lot of blueing! I would only do one or two a year and used Dicropan IM hot water blue. Just needed one tank of hot water.

I plan on getting better at rust bluing, need to try some different brands

Looks great


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Nice job. That butt stock area in front of the swivel sure has some character to it. Looks like limb went through there, or close to it!! Nice old gun