Re-nickle my antique where???

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Any of you guys able to recommend where I could bring my Antique S&W 44 for re-plating the nickle.

I contacted one company here in Vancouver and they have a place in Mission also but no reply to my request one week later. It seems no one advertises that they re-nickle guns. Lots of places blue but none that re-nickle. I need the gun stripped of the old nickle and then re-plated. I already have a gunsmith "Rusty Woods" that will strip the gun for me.

Any help would be appreciated. I saw in a thread that canada ammo plates but they won;t strip the old nickle, just old bluing.

I don't mind shipping the parts out of province if I have to, just wish to have it done in Canada.
 
I was just reading the other day that Canada Ammo has started offering plating. If I remember correctly he said $150 for most guns. Check their little sub-forum - I think it was in a post where they were offering a gold plated shotgun.

Guess I should read your entire post first, eh. f:P:2:
 
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sunray said:
"...It may hurt the value..." Not 'may', it will drop the collector value in half. So will stripping it.
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I personally think this is a situation where the "value" of firearm is judged by the person who has the most money to buy it. Unlike the United States, the pool of true collectors of fine antique firearms is relatively limited. To be clear these are the guys that wear cotton gloves to handle a gun and don't typically discharge the firearms.

No disrespect intended but you are much more likely to find a buyer in Canada(especially on EE) whose purchasing criteria are lets say much less discriminating. Certainly if you have no intention on selling the "value" remains in the eyes of the owner. So do what think is right afterall it is your gun.
 
I bought this as a refinished gun and fricken love it :p
A real pro job and i also like it better than a rust peeling gun anyday but thats just me.
In truth refishing them is supose to bring down value tho its not the case in Canada if its a good Job.

Another option to renickle which a fellow can do himself is to polish the steel to a hi luster start at like 800 grt work up to unill about 2000 grt wet and dry sand paper it sounds bad but i tell you its hard to tell from a nickled gun when you polish steel. a coating of G96 and it dont rust either.

some renickled guns look like xmass ornaments so think it thru.


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This Schofield is just polished steel that kept all its markings intact and the gun never rusted the two years i had it.
Polished steel is as nice as nickle and you dont gota worry about scratching it.
Anyway everyones diffrent but this worked for me and everyone pretty much that handled it thought it was nickled.




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I don't think it will hurt the value at all. Here in Canada many of us buy them not so much for collector reasons. We buy them as you don't require a licence. If it was an old Colt, I would leave it as is.

A nice re-done satan nickle finish would look really nice, just where to get it done in Canada seems to be a issue.

davidsbyang said:
Why you think of re-plating? It may hurt the value of your gun as a piece of
antique.
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rboomsma said:
I don't think it will hurt the value at all. Here in Canada many of us buy them not so much for collector reasons. We buy them as you don't require a licence. If it was an old Colt, I would leave it as is.

A nice re-done satan nickle finish would look really nice, just where to get it done in Canada seems to be a issue.
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Theres a guy on Vancouver island that was gona do a Satin finish on one for me.
Hopefully he will see your post in the gunsmithinmg it was years ago but im sure he is still around.
A gun like yours done satin would look great.
 
rboomsma said:
I don't think it will hurt the value at all. Here in Canada many of us buy them not so much for collector reasons. We buy them as you don't require a licence. If it was an old Colt, I would leave it as is.

A nice re-done satan nickle finish would look really nice, just where to get it done in Canada seems to be a issue.
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I would avoid this kind of finish....You don't know what can happen!!:p
 
My 44 DA id back and restored have a look!

rboomsma said:
Any of you guys able to recommend where I could bring my Antique S&W 44 for re-plating the nickle.
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Well I got it back today and it looks awesome. Gunsmith (Rustywoods) was very impressed with the quailty of the re-plating (Brian of Pacific Plating) and how the old gun turned out. It is like new and tolerances are so tight.

Anyways before picks: Photo by Dingus

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6 inch barrel I picked up

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And now:

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For those of you that say never refinsih a gun, have another look.

I am also looking for another barrel catch parts for the 4 inch barrel and cylinder pipe that the cylinder srews on too(frontier type 1.9/16th).
 
Thats Fricken Nice Work.
I need a couple of my keeper remy 1875s done like that.
How is the barrel top Address is it still readable ?
Im for sure gona get some of my guns redone after seeing this.
Looks great! :)
 
That is beautiful, nicely done Ron. Your going to want to look at all day now:)

My wife is still upset with me since I moved my WG out of the safe in plain view on display next to her chachkies:D
 
I wonder if folks 200 yrs from now will applaud your efforts?
I think YES.
Beautifull job and thanks for doing it (most importantly) well!
 
that's a class A restoration,you left the trigger and hammer in the original finish,you don't see that much on a refinished gun, a well done job won't drop value that much,aux contraire when you have the right buyer the gun can go for more than when it was in poor original condition,cabelas has many refinished guns on there auction site and prices are not exactly low
here is one of my refinished colts ,a 1906 ,in .45
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