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I have another one! This is a Smith & Wesson model 27 from the early 70's, some previous owner engraved their driver's license number on the gun, in two places....it also had some holster wear and mild rust pitting...I removed the graffiti and polished it up, then reblued it.

Before and after pics:









Blog post links:

https://tincanbandit.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-smith-wesson-model-27-project-part-1.html

https://tincanbandit.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-smith-wesson-model-27-project-part-2.html

https://tincanbandit.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-smith-wesson-model-27-project-part-3.html

Nice work, thanks for posting.

Excellent craftsmanship in restoring that classic Smith & Wesson, a job to be proud of.

That looks great. Impressive work.

Nice job; you brought that baby back from the dead.

Nice job! That is one of my all time favorites!! The Cadillac of the S&W's in my opinion! One question is that yours or a job done for a customer? I couldn't tell if you were making a joke about completing the job.

Seeing that M/27 with the previous owner's DL # "engraved" on it brings to mind a Skeeter Skelton story entitled "Bustamonte I hate you" wherein Skeeter relates the story of having tracked down a pretty nice Colt SA south of the border. Nice Skeeter thought till he turned the piece over, the mexican who originally owned the old Colt had "engraved" his name with what for all appearances must have been a railroad spike.

I remember that article.

Skeeter was a master story teller, too bad his books have gotten so expensive.

While many of my projects are my own guns, this revolver belongs to a friend