so the gentleman just showed in great detail how to properly blue firearms and many of you want to be ,know nothing smiths make snide comments and show nothing but disrespect towards him (really now ,making fun of his accent and demeanor ) ,great video sir
There will always be those type of people that will criticize and berate someone for there accent or there mannerisms, gun smiting takes time and patience, it's obvious some of these people don't have neither, I found the video very informative and interesting...Great Job!!!!
Scott there is no way that i can express the amount of respect that i have for you for being willing to teach others the knowledge that you have taken years to acquire. Being a teacher of my 40 year trade myself i know what kind of heart it takes to do it. God speed to you brother. You have made it a lot easier for me to continue my retirement plans lol.
Absolutely outstanding. Sincerely appreciate you sharing your knowledge sir. I had no idea of the complexity and precautions that needed to be taken for this procedure and you did such an amazing job providing insights, advice, and personal experience throughout the entire process. Respect brother!
excellent vid! as a gunsmith with 2 shops, and a 36 year vet of the FIRE DEPT, i am with you 100000%.....NOBODY but myself operates my bluing OR case hardining set ups.....
One of the very best and most informative videos I’ve seen on the tube. Great teacher. The video on bluing the soft solder double barrels is also top notch. Thank you Scott!
I’m way past the age to do this, but I found this to be most enjoyable and informative. Thank you 🙏! Your voice reminded me of Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice’s Restaurant “
Excellent video and well worth the hour 13 to watch it all. I have watched several videos on hot blueing and you included several steps others skipped. I have a model 10 S&W i am going to try hot blueing on it. Total amateur at this. I think your video will save me from making a mess out of it. Thanks Scott.
This was not a good video at all IT WAS AWESOME. Oh man I saved this one I always wanted to do this kind of work. I'm good with disassembly cleaning polishing but this is the first video I've seen that pulls you in you are a great instructor. One of the best videos on the subject I've ever seen. Thank you for taking all the time to put it together. I know I'm late for the game but better late then never.
I really want to thank you for some great videos and an awesome block of instructions. I am in the process of becoming a Gunsmith thru SDI and your videos are very helpful.
I’m surprised that with such a hot open flame at the bottom of the bluing salts tank that it takes so long to heat up. This is hands down the most in depth video showing the hot bluing process on RUclips. High polish blued finishes have all but disappeared on new firearms. It seems that every new gun you use see has either a flat matte finish or is made of stainless. A deep blued gun is my favorite finish.
This has so much good information in it. I will have to try it out at some point. for the most part it looks really strait forward. thanks for the video
I knew nothing about blueing!! Now I know a lot. I have a couple of very minor suggestions: 1: if you took the rod that you use to move the baskets and welded on two small washers of the correct diameter and welded them about an inch apart on one end of the rod - the basket would never slide off the rod. 2: if you got a clipboard and put it where you have the Winchester note on the wall you could add more info as necessary. You have an amazingly well thought out blueing room. Thanks for sharing!!
Another excellent video Scott. Have enjoyed your gunsmithing videos and keep them coming. I like the way you think...how you set things up. Try to run my small shop is a similar way. Do it right the first time round.
Scott, How do you stop the brown color coming off the firearm after bluing. Been a week and still getting that brown tint when cleaning. Would soaking in oil bath stop the process?
What is the rust preventative substance you coat the firearms in after polish between polish and bluing stage? I cant find "Hold" anywhere in Brownell's catalog.
Hi Scott. Not sure of this has already been asked and answered, but could you perhaps tell me exactly what the bluing salts consist of as I don't live in the U.S. at all but in South Africa and importing the products direct from the US producers is prohibitively expensive. If I could get the chemicals here locally I could most likely make up the mixture myself.... And if course proceed to blue the items I need bluing....
An excellent video and your bluing salts tank is a perfect idea. I have a heck of a time with my salts "crawling" out of my tank. I lose a lot of salts to this and I will build the funnel shaped section like you have and weld it to the top of my tank the next time I change out my salts! Thank you very much for the video and great idea!!!
Also watch the very end of his video. He has this little block called stop creep that he rubs around the tank. It keeps the salts from crawling out of the tank. He got it from Brownell's.
Wow! Two thumbs up to Scott for sharing all of this with everyone. Anyone that has any idea that they might want to get into this as a career or even as a weekend source of extra income would have enough information to know if they wanted to go for it or not. Scott, Po'boy, I hope at least one of you reads these from time too time and gets this. A huge thank you for all the time and effort that went into getting this video to us! You guys are awesome!
You might try adding some regulators like what’s on a fish cooker. It looks like you were using ball valves. The regulators should help out a lot with your temperature control. All in all great set up and great video
Tennessee trade schools should make you an offer of all the materials , shop , class rooms ect. for Gun Smithing Training ! Along with a very $$$$ compensation !
Great instructional. Wish your shop was closer, have several pistols and a rifle that I’d love to have you re-blue. Next time I drive through TN, I’m going to have to stop by. You should consider an apprentice. You have a skill that is dying off.
What are the chances of making a video of the polishing process/prep of a gun before the bluing process? I would love to see how you high polish a gun, thanks.
Boiling point purely a function of composition (salt to water ratio in this case). Boiling rate is a function of heat input amount over the boiling point ( the delta between internal temperature of the boiling system and the jacket temperature). Don’t confuse the two.
sir how many guns can you blue before you have to change out the 909 ? and how many OR how long before you have to change out the bluing tank (salt ) so i can keep up the consentancy.? also is the hot water tank got to be at a certain temp, or just to a nice boil as you had it, ? thanks for your help and exellent video..... please let me know these answers..... thank you
Also, for future reference. Whichever way you're holding your phone when you push record is going to determine what is up and what is down because this guy keeps turning the phone sideways and all of a sudden now you got to turn your head 90 degrees because the floor is now on the left hand side of the screen and the ceilings on the right.
I appreciate this video but you are saying things loke the 909. During all this time I wish you would explain all these things what salt where to get it, is it just tap water or distilled? Etc. did you make the tanks I’m uessing they are stainless steel.
1st off... Sounds like we were taught by the same person. When I first learned to work, my daddy tought me "Theres two ways to do things. The right way... And again." Followed by your line, "If you don't have the time to do it right the first time..." hehe. Interesting about the displacing oil, WD40 stands for Water Displacement formula #40... I would think it would work well. It must be a viscosity thing, many? I do have one question I've yet to find an answer for... I'm a fan of Browning Hi Powers. Some of them come with a sort of purple-ish blue to them, rather than the standard black bluing. I think its beautiful, how is this color effect achieved? Anyone? Thanks for the lesson, u finally understand hot bluing and don't just think I do. :)
The colour if I am not mistaken is dependent on the actual steel itself as the steel's carbon content will dictate the overall colour or tone of black it turns once treated.
@@delmaneboshoff5610 Hello, I believe that you may have intended to respond to the main conversation as your comment is out of context with my remark. (Also, there should be a comma after the words "colour" and "mistaken.") ;) lol.
After bluing 15 min ,go to cold water 2 min then straight to bluing other 15 min,then go to cold water2 min,,My question ,,,then go straight to hot water for 10 minute or go to nano9 before hot water? If go to nano 9 before hot water ,how long should stay in this solutions?
great video. your flame looks alittle weak it would burn hotter with less fuel if you had more air in the burner tube so the flames are more blue and less orange, might need to increase the gas pressure coming it.
where your visegrips are is the air opening adjustment gate. the burner length and the amount of holes need to match your air intake size. to small of a air opening and you get orange flames, just right you get blue flames that are much hotter like a blowtorch . good work scottie
I can't link to your web page.. I get this message.. "The page owner isn't allowing Google to read the page, so we couldn't create a good page description. Unfortunately there's nothing that Google can do about this."
If you have a Commercial Heat Treating Operation near you, they'll often have a Black Oxide running every day...Black Oxide and "Blueing" are the same thing...Lucky us, our local Heat Treater was a big Gun Guy, he let us dip whatever we needed into his tanks at Lunch Time when his guys were on break....
The hottest part of the propane flame is the blue part, so if you've got orange and red flames licking up the side of your tank you're wasting propane.
Hello sir, i’ve been watching your bluing videos and I respect the fact that you put a lot of attention to detail.. i’m in AZ, i’d like to contact you for some bluing on an old colt 1911. How can I get a hold of you?
One man show. I totally understand and agree. The only one you can blame for something going wrong is yourself. I never realized bluing was such a process. I've seen "blue in a bottle" in the gun stores and magazines, so I always thought it was just a simple three step job (clean, wipe the bluing on, then rinse). I'm glad I came across this video because I'm hoping to start the "master gunsmith course" from AGI by the end of this summer, and now I am rethinking my shop layout to incorporate a bluing room. How big is your bluing room? I'm guessing 6' x 15'? I really do appreciate this video. It's very informative, but it probably could be much shorter. Like I said I really, really do appreciate it, but I think you probably talked too much repeating the same thing numerous times. Again, thanks for sharing your knowledge and tips.
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so the gentleman just showed in great detail how to properly blue firearms and many of you want to be ,know nothing smiths make snide comments and show nothing but disrespect towards him (really now ,making fun of his accent and demeanor ) ,great video sir
There will always be those type of people that will criticize and berate someone for there accent or there mannerisms, gun smiting takes time and patience, it's obvious some of these people don't have neither, I found the video very informative and interesting...Great Job!!!!
Scott there is no way that i can express the amount of respect that i have for you for being willing to teach others the knowledge that you have taken years to acquire. Being a teacher of my 40 year trade myself i know what kind of heart it takes to do it. God speed to you brother. You have made it a lot easier for me to continue my retirement plans lol.
Thank you for the awesome video im in SDI the certificate in gunsmithing course and our instructor told us to watch your video i am glad i did.
You cannot find knowledge like this anymore. There's so much experience in that room in those tools. Love the video. Thank you.
Scott is the "Bob Ross of Bluing"!!! Love his work and love his willingness to teach others!!!
Wow! That was one of the most informative videos I've ever seen concerning hot bluing. Well done!
Learn from the Gun Master so you can pass it to the next generation. Excellent presentation for your viewers well done...
Thank you Scott for teaching all of us.I can't get enough teaching.thanks Mike
Absolutely outstanding. Sincerely appreciate you sharing your knowledge sir. I had no idea of the complexity and precautions that needed to be taken for this procedure and you did such an amazing job providing insights, advice, and personal experience throughout the entire process. Respect brother!
excellent vid! as a gunsmith with 2 shops, and a 36 year vet of the FIRE DEPT, i am with you 100000%.....NOBODY but myself operates my bluing OR case hardining set ups.....
Thank You so much for taking the time and effort to share your wealth of knowledge with us.
One of the very best and most informative videos I’ve seen on the tube. Great teacher. The video on bluing the soft solder double barrels is also top notch. Thank you Scott!
Thank you for showing the fine details. For taking the time in DETAIL. Thank you so much!!!
I believe you have literally thought up and have accomplished every hint, tip, and trick in the book!
Thanks Scott for putting this video together, very good job!
Thank you sir for your time and the video I learned a lot from you.
You have a special gift for sure
How has it taken me so long to find this video. Very informative.
Great video Scott. Very informative and helpful. There are only so many times you can see a bluing setup in a book before it isn't helpful anymore.
I’m way past the age to do this, but I found this to be most enjoyable and informative. Thank you 🙏! Your voice reminded me of Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice’s Restaurant “
You can get anything you want, at Alice's restaurant.
Thanks for sharing that and all the willingness to teach all of us. Thank you very much.👍
Excellent video and well worth the hour 13 to watch it all. I have watched several videos on hot blueing and you included several steps others skipped. I have a model 10 S&W i am going to try hot blueing on it. Total amateur at this. I think your video will save me from making a mess out of it. Thanks Scott.
Scott I like your bluing tank design it's very clever you can manage the creeping salt
Great and very informative video. Thank you so much. I was looking for such kind of bluing videos for years.
Glad it was helpful!
Scott....Thanks for your VERY INTERESTING demonstration videos! I'm hooked 😁
Great video, Thx ! Very good detail and instructions.
This was not a good video at all
IT WAS AWESOME. Oh man I saved this one I always wanted to do this kind of work. I'm good with disassembly cleaning polishing but this is the first video I've seen that pulls you in you are a great instructor. One of the best videos on the subject I've ever seen. Thank you for taking all the time to put it together. I know I'm late for the game but better late then never.
I really want to thank you for some great videos and an awesome block of instructions. I am in the process of becoming a Gunsmith thru SDI and your videos are very helpful.
I’m surprised that with such a hot open flame at the bottom of the bluing salts tank that it takes so long to heat up. This is hands down the most in depth video showing the hot bluing process on RUclips. High polish blued finishes have all but disappeared on new firearms. It seems that every new gun you use see has either a flat matte finish or is made of stainless. A deep blued gun is my favorite finish.
Thanks for the awesome video ❤
Good looking bluing work and good details it;s a pleasure to watch someone with a lot of know how. Great video!!!
Hi sir very very interesting video just wondering if you had a naked blue flame heating the tank would that be to dangerous??
This has so much good information in it. I will have to try it out at some point. for the most part it looks really strait forward. thanks for the video
Great video. I’d love to know how you move your parts in the basket while in the cold water tank to keep from getting lines.
Great video! Answered a lot of questions that a starter has. Heck of a job Scott.
I knew nothing about blueing!! Now I know a lot.
I have a couple of very minor suggestions:
1: if you took the rod that you use to move the baskets and welded on two small washers of the correct diameter and welded them about an inch apart on one end of the rod - the basket would never slide off the rod.
2: if you got a clipboard and put it where you have the Winchester note on the wall you could add more info as necessary.
You have an amazingly well thought out blueing room. Thanks for sharing!!
Absolutely fantastic video. Thank you!
I heard you mention Brownell’s. I enjoy their “Gunsmith Kinks” books.
Thanks for the awesome video!!!!!!
Thank you for all the detailed instructions! Do you plug the barrel?
Another excellent video Scott. Have enjoyed your gunsmithing videos and keep them coming.
I like the way you think...how you set things up. Try to run my small shop is a similar way. Do it right the first time round.
Do you plug off the barrel before blueing and if so what do you use
Scott, How do you stop the brown color coming off the firearm after bluing. Been a week and still getting that brown tint when cleaning. Would soaking in oil bath stop the process?
Is any prep work done to the inside of the barrel?
What is the rust preventative substance you coat the firearms in after polish between polish and bluing stage? I cant find "Hold" anywhere in Brownell's catalog.
Hi Scott. Not sure of this has already been asked and answered, but could you perhaps tell me exactly what the bluing salts consist of as I don't live in the U.S. at all but in South Africa and importing the products direct from the US producers is prohibitively expensive. If I could get the chemicals here locally I could most likely make up the mixture myself.... And if course proceed to blue the items I need bluing....
Best video yet on bluing!!! Subscribed!!
With the oxynate 7, are you using standard tap water, filtered water, or distilled water?
What reference do you use to know what metal is used by which model and manufacturer? What metals do you have the least amount of luck with bluing?
An excellent video and your bluing salts tank is a perfect idea. I have a heck of a time with my salts "crawling" out of my tank. I lose a lot of salts to this and I will build the funnel shaped section like you have and weld it to the top of my tank the next time I change out my salts! Thank you very much for the video and great idea!!!
Also watch the very end of his video. He has this little block called stop creep that he rubs around the tank. It keeps the salts from crawling out of the tank. He got it from Brownell's.
Wow! Two thumbs up to Scott for sharing all of this with everyone. Anyone that has any idea that they might want to get into this as a career or even as a weekend source of extra income would have enough information to know if they wanted to go for it or not. Scott, Po'boy, I hope at least one of you reads these from time too time and gets this. A huge thank you for all the time and effort that went into getting this video to us! You guys are awesome!
Wooo
Great video
Can u tell me about bluing solution?
Thanks again for sharing your knowledge .
Very informative! I need to get a Colt Scout reblued.
The video was well worth watching. I would like to learn how to do this. Any way you can help me. Thank
Awesome video. How do you guys fell about spray-on products?
how do you remove the rust and bluing of gun? Mike Stevens
May I ask what you do with the chemicals when they are wore out.
You might try adding some regulators like what’s on a fish cooker. It looks like you were using ball valves. The regulators should help out a lot with your temperature control. All in all great set up and great video
an exceptional set up
Grea great video boss , can you provide the blue salt name and it’s ingredients?
Fantastic. Thank you so much.
What is in the 909 tank
Where do u get the bluing salts at
Tennessee trade schools should make you an offer of all the materials , shop , class rooms ect. for Gun Smithing Training !
Along with a very $$$$ compensation !
Great instructional. Wish your shop was closer, have several pistols and a rifle that I’d love to have you re-blue. Next time I drive through TN, I’m going to have to stop by.
You should consider an apprentice. You have a skill that is dying off.
You do beautiful work I would trust you with guns any day.
What are the chances of making a video of the polishing process/prep of a gun before the bluing process? I would love to see how you high polish a gun, thanks.
Hi Scott, what metal did you use to make the tanks?? Regards, Andrew
Boiling point purely a function of composition (salt to water ratio in this case). Boiling rate is a function of heat input amount over the boiling point ( the delta between internal temperature of the boiling system and the jacket temperature). Don’t confuse the two.
What is the chemical setup?
Scottie is the best!
sir how many guns can you blue before you have to change out the 909 ? and how many OR how long before you have to change out the bluing tank (salt ) so i can keep up the consentancy.? also is the hot water tank got to be at a certain temp, or just to a nice boil as you had it, ? thanks for your help and exellent video..... please let me know these answers..... thank you
Does a manufacturer use the same bluing ingredients as you use ??
What would the salts costs for what you are doing in this video?
Great video
What is the approximate cost of your blueing setup?
How do you mix your salts?
what kind of salts are in the tank
Also, for future reference.
Whichever way you're holding your phone when you push record is going to determine what is up and what is down because this guy keeps turning the phone sideways and all of a sudden now you got to turn your head 90 degrees because the floor is now on the left hand side of the screen and the ceilings on the right.
Potassium Nitrate Powder 99.8% Pure will this work the same as what your using ??
Great job Scottie! How much to polish and blue a m98 receiver with a target barrel on it?
Give me a call. I have some questions. Thanks for watching.
@@scottiecox2142 hi there, is this what is known as nitre bluing?
No this the hot salts bluing, mitre bluing is simpler.
I appreciate this video but you are saying things loke the 909. During all this time I wish you would explain all these things what salt where to get it, is it just tap water or distilled? Etc. did you make the tanks I’m uessing they are stainless steel.
Hey scott how much would it run to blue a 1911
if you have orange flames your burners are not burning right you need to ajust the oxygen going to them they should be blue
1st off... Sounds like we were taught by the same person. When I first learned to work, my daddy tought me "Theres two ways to do things. The right way... And again." Followed by your line, "If
you don't have the time to do it right the first time..." hehe.
Interesting about the displacing oil, WD40 stands for Water Displacement formula #40... I would think it would work well. It must be a viscosity thing, many?
I do have one question I've yet to find an answer for... I'm a fan of Browning Hi Powers. Some of them come with a sort of purple-ish blue to them, rather than the standard black bluing. I think its beautiful, how is this color effect achieved? Anyone?
Thanks for the lesson, u finally understand hot bluing and don't just think I do. :)
The colour if I am not mistaken is dependent on the actual steel itself as the steel's carbon content will dictate the overall colour or tone of black it turns once treated.
@@delmaneboshoff5610
Hello, I believe that you may have intended to respond to the main conversation as your comment is out of context with my remark.
(Also, there should be a comma after the words "colour" and "mistaken.") ;) lol.
@@delmaneboshoff5610 Now that I've sorted myself, thank you for your information and help. Ive been a bit "confused" lately, to say the least. :)
Do you strip and polish the steel before bluing Scott?
How can I contact you ?
After bluing 15 min ,go to cold water 2 min then straight to bluing other 15 min,then go to cold water2 min,,My question ,,,then go straight to hot water for 10 minute or go to nano9 before hot water? If go to nano 9 before hot water ,how long should stay in this solutions?
great video. your flame looks alittle weak it would burn hotter with less fuel if you had more air in the burner tube so the flames are more blue and less orange, might need to increase the gas pressure coming it.
I think I'll try that thanks buddy.
where your visegrips are is the air opening adjustment gate. the burner length and the amount of holes need to match your air intake size. to small of a air opening and you get orange flames, just right you get blue flames that are much hotter like a blowtorch . good work scottie
I can't link to your web page.. I get this message..
"The page owner isn't allowing Google to read the page, so we couldn't create a good page description. Unfortunately there's nothing that Google can do about this."
Yes, sorry, the website no longer is available.
@@GuyKirk - Yes, Scotty is in business. Just call or email him for details.
@@poboyspecial Thanks so much. :) Have a great day.
If you have a Commercial Heat Treating Operation near you, they'll often have a Black Oxide running every day...Black Oxide and "Blueing" are the same thing...Lucky us, our local Heat Treater was a big Gun Guy, he let us dip whatever we needed into his tanks at Lunch Time when his guys were on break....
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Well thanks for the video but I better go somewhere to get some technical info. Thanks
The hottest part of the propane flame is the blue part, so if you've got orange and red flames licking up the side of your tank you're wasting propane.
Hello sir, i’ve been watching your bluing videos and I respect the fact that you put a lot of attention to detail.. i’m in AZ, i’d like to contact you for some bluing on an old colt 1911. How can I get a hold of you?
615-746-9668 is the number to the shop
Super nice excellent good 10/10 , 5 STARS *****
What do you charge ??
One man show. I totally understand and agree. The only one you can blame for something going wrong is yourself. I never realized bluing was such a process. I've seen "blue in a bottle" in the gun stores and magazines, so I always thought it was just a simple three step job (clean, wipe the bluing on, then rinse). I'm glad I came across this video because I'm hoping to start the "master gunsmith course" from AGI by the end of this summer, and now I am rethinking my shop layout to incorporate a bluing room.
How big is your bluing room? I'm guessing 6' x 15'?
I really do appreciate this video. It's very informative, but it probably could be much shorter. Like I said I really, really do appreciate it, but I think you probably talked too much repeating the same thing numerous times. Again, thanks for sharing your knowledge and tips.
What is 909? Where can I buy this?
You get 909 from Brownells. Brownells.com.
Have a hva/c tech look at the burners and set the gas pressure. There not burning correctly