Thread: Recommended Gunsmiths in New Zealand for hot bluing

If you're wanting perfection, then bluing just a section of your barrel may not give you the result you want. If it was mine, I would be wanting the whole barrel and action blued as one, in the same bath, at the same temperature etc etc. That way you stand a much greater chance of the colour being uniform through the whole rifle. It may not be exactly the same colour as the original, and it very well may be. Thats the risk you as the owner must take, not the gunsmith. I take all my gun smithing to Gunworks and from memory they only start up the bluing bath 2 or 3 times per year, so there will be a wait involved.