I have used several cold blue formulas over the years and always got the best results from Oxpho. Anyone know of a better cold blue?

nope

There is no such thing as a "good" cold blue. It's the same as all of these high powered techno-paints like powder coat, dura-coat, moly-coat, cerra-coat and coaty-coat. 1/2 hour in my solvent tanks and it's stripped-off-coat or mushy-coat. I'm getting dishpan hands from washing those guns in soap and water. I'm thinking of buying a fawking dishwasher for all the plastic and war-painted gurly guns that come in.

I use the oxpho blue for small parts but it certainly doesn't work well for larger parts. It has it's place and I really haven't found anything much better.

What Speer said. Maybe good for a little touch up spot that you can't see. I have used quarts of it over the past 50 years.

I've used oxpho on machine tool parts I've built with good results. A carriage stop I built for my lathe still looked good after about 20 years of use.

Dave

I use it for the odd small part, screws, etc. Once, on a dare, I blued an entire rifle with it. It turned out very nice and has now suffered through five hunting seasons in the hands of a slob and it still looks pretty good.

I once blued an entire rifle as well. But later I learned to rust blue and found it is easier and produces a much better finish that is extremely long lasting.

www.rustblue.com

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Originally posted by gnoahhh:
I use it for the odd small part, screws, etc. Once, on a dare, I blued an entire rifle with it. It turned out very nice and has now suffered through five hunting seasons in the hands of a slob and it still looks pretty good.

as far as clod blues go, i think this one is the better product...

the SMELL of cold blue bugs me, after the metal is blued...

For touch up Oxpho is fine but...A good hot blue is awesome, but not every gunsmith can do a good hot blue. D'Arcy does a hot blue that will blow you away..

I love and old world rust blue, we have spent ions trying to find a metal finish that won't wear, and its been there forever, just look at some of the old Mausers out there or particularly the Brno mod 21s, they all look like new blued metal after all these years, even after the wood has seen its day...

I have done rust blue, but I am sure the best rust bluers are those that practice it daily, it does require some skill..Lots of rust blue these days ends up in a hot tank to match it up I fear..

I have only used the G96 cold blue ...great for touch ups, helps if you warm the part up also!

I have 4 different brands of cold blue under the bench, one that blues one part does nothing for the next part. Oxpho works like all the others.