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I always liked the peacock blue colored small parts on the early Colts. The thread title is a bit misleading as I didn’t use Nitre salts which is commonly used today for this purpose, I used heat like Colt did in the past. I read somewhere they used a gas furnace for the fire blue triggers, pins, screws, etc.
Decided to toy around with the M11. Lipstick on a pig.
This isn’t a tutorial but more of a picture thread showing some of the steps.
I spent one night from start to finish.
A few shots of the pig before starting.
The selector pin sticks out .035” proud. I’m going to file it down more flush.
All starts with a file and then sanding down to a mirror finish. Anything not polished won’t take on the electric blue color.
The color range starts with straw like some Luger parts
Goes past bronze to a purple/violet
Then goes dark blue and then lighter blue
Here you can see the selector switch has been in longer than the trigger so the colors are at different temperatures.
Notice only the polished areas have taken the color?
Trigger done.
Really shiny parts are hard to photograph.
Shiny side of the lock
And didn’t want the other flat polished.
Same with the selector, left park’d
Shaved it down .035” and blued
Decided to toy around with the M11. Lipstick on a pig.
This isn’t a tutorial but more of a picture thread showing some of the steps.
I spent one night from start to finish.
A few shots of the pig before starting.
The selector pin sticks out .035” proud. I’m going to file it down more flush.



All starts with a file and then sanding down to a mirror finish. Anything not polished won’t take on the electric blue color.






The color range starts with straw like some Luger parts

Goes past bronze to a purple/violet

Then goes dark blue and then lighter blue

Here you can see the selector switch has been in longer than the trigger so the colors are at different temperatures.
Notice only the polished areas have taken the color?

Trigger done.

Really shiny parts are hard to photograph.

Shiny side of the lock

And didn’t want the other flat polished.

Same with the selector, left park’d

Shaved it down .035” and blued

