SKS Blued Bayonet

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I have heard that a tell tale sign of a refurb SKS is a blued bayonet. I wonder if thats always the case. I wonder if the original blade bayonets may have been blued when there was a transition from the spike. I say this because the deeply blued bayonets I have come across have always been on 1950 and 1951 rifles.
I have a 1950 all matching numbers with the blued bayo. It is a refurb but matching numbers and the rifle is blued not painted. If an SKS was in for a light refurb and the finish was not touched (painted) why would they swap the white bayo for a blued one?
 
Yea ! I have a blued byoo to!! Sorry couldn't help my self !LOL!!!Laugh2 I originally picked this up because it has a lament stock and was in excellent condition at the time I didn't notice that the bayonet was blued .It just so happened to go very well with my set up that I was going after .IMG_20160807_082528.jpg
 

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Darc said:
I have heard that a tell tale sign of a refurb SKS is a blued bayonet. I wonder if thats always the case. I wonder if the original blade bayonets may have been blued when there was a transition from the spike. I say this because the deeply blued bayonets I have come across have always been on 1950 and 1951 rifles.
I have a 1950 all matching numbers with the blued bayo. It is a refurb but matching numbers and the rifle is blued not painted. If an SKS was in for a light refurb and the finish was not touched (painted) why would they swap the white bayo for a blued one?
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I strongly believe that the first blade bayo's were blue too.
 
I have seen couple of skss where only blued bayo was a "sign of refinishing". I think this topic my require some additional research.
 
My 1955 has a blued bayo and hardwood stock. It's the first sks I bought 12 years ago from Lever. Still my number 1 shooter, great rifle.
 
I have two blued bayo's they are refurb and 1957 vintage, my belief is that the actual blued bayo's are from a refurb factory that does just these, at a time when the Russians were trying lots of new coatings/ finishes on their rifles, this was a test bed! The two that I have are the nicest, deepest blueing I have seen on an SKS, just awesome! Also the refurb work looks to be impeccable! I should have bought more while I could! I have seen the painted / powder coated bayo's too, they look like a tough coating but not as pretty!
 
Well there is no doubt that blued bayonets were used in mix matched refurbs. Im talking about blued bayonets on all matching rifles. Just curious as to why a perfectly fine rifle would be refurbished with a blued bayonet.
 
An attempt at corrosion protection for long storage or wet use areas, as I said, I think they were playing around with a bunch of finishes too see which worked best! Mine have an extremely tight stock to receiver fit, great refurbs!
 
Dsiwy said:
Was it a refurb with mixed parts?
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It's all matching all blued metal, matching stamped number on buttstock. No refurb marks on metal. One refurb mark (diamond) on stock near left side of the action. Frankenpinned mag. Never any failures and is very accurate.
 
Kevt28 said:
It's all matching all blued metal, matching stamped number on buttstock. No refurb marks on metal. One refurb mark (diamond) on stock near left side of the action. Frankenpinned mag. Never any failures and is very accurate.
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Yep, like I said, I think this factory that Blues the bayo's , does a great refurb job, very tight and nice looking too!
 
It makes no sense for blued bayonets to be a sign of a refurb, all regular SKS bayonets were plated, if you sand the surface down enough it will start to discolor and show two different layers. In order to blue anything, the surface has to be bare steel, which standard bayonets are absolutely not. I find it hard to believe that the Russians spent the time to completely strip all of the plating off these bayonets and carefully blue them when refurbishing, as they didn't even care enough to keep most rifles numbers matching. It's easier to justify it as a temporary lack of chrome plating equipment at the factory during initial production, forcing them to use bluing in the mean time.

There are bayonets that have been PAINTED black, which is absolutely a possibility when refurbishing, it takes no work to spray paint chrome.
 
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Probably a refurb (nothing wrong with that). However, do this:

Look carefully at the screw that holds the bayonet to the lug... are the punch marks aligned and matching?
 
JuicyFruit said:
It makes no sense for blued bayonets to be a sign of a refurb, all regular SKS bayonets were plated, if you sand the surface down enough it will start to discolor and show two different layers. In order to blue anything, the surface has to be bare steel, which standard bayonets are absolutely not. I find it hard to believe that the Russians spent the time to completely strip all of the plating off these bayonets and carefully blue them when refurbishing, as they didn't even care enough to keep most rifles numbers matching. It's easier to justify it as a temporary lack of chrome plating equipment at the factory during initial production, forcing them to use bluing in the mean time.

There are bayonets that have been PAINTED black, which is absolutely a possibility when refurbishing, it takes no work to spray paint chrome.
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My two are the slim smooth steel bayo's, there are different styles of the blade bayo, the blueing matches too well not to have been done at the same time! I have seen a couple painted bayo's too but they aren't that common!
 
bobdbldr said:
I have a couple of those, very nice, and the black bayo's are the same shape and smoothness! There are so many different variations of the SKS but they are all cool!
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Very cool, Its to bad their is no way to find out all the origins and when they were made. So many variations with the SKS its easy to miss them.
 
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