TSJC Summer NRA Short Course Series

July 16 - July 20

Bluing

In this course we will mainly be covering hot salt blueing as it applies to the firearms industry. This course includes instruction and hands on training in metal preparation, hot bluing, niter bluing, and some alternative finishes such as Parkerizing and spray finishes. Students should supply their own firearms or parts to work on. The focus of this class is to learn quality metal finishing skills, not to blue a large volume of guns. It would be better to end your week with 3-4 exceptional quality projects, rather than 15-20 incomplete and lacking quality finishes.

Ryan Newport, Instructor

Recommended Tools and Materials List:

• 6” adjustable wrench
• Allen wrench set
• Aluminum oxide polishing cloth 180, 240, and 400 grits
• Assorted files with handles smaller sizes 6" or 8" may be most useful
• Bench block - we can make this from a hard rubber hockey punch.
• Dust mask
• Guns to blue
• Gunsmith screwdriver set.
• Hammer
• Long sleeve shirt and pants (Required)
• Needle nose pliers
• Pin punch set
• Safety glasses (Required)
• Scotch brite pads (green and gray)

This list reflects minimum requirements. If you have other tools or supplies that maybe useful, bring them because you can never have enough tools.