I bought this Ruger Standard pistol at a gun show for $80, it was missing some parts and in need of a refinish.

Here are the before and after shots









Blog post links:

https://tincanbandit.blogspot.com/2020/06/the-ruger-standard-project-part-1.html

https://tincanbandit.blogspot.com/2020/06/the-ruger-standard-project-part-2.html

https://tincanbandit.blogspot.com/2020/06/the-ruger-standard-project-part-3.html

Bill Ruger's original work of genius, brought back to life. If that ain't a "good work," I don't know what is: Bravo!

(Love your blog, too.).

Very nice job. My standard is still my favorite pistol, only had it for about 55 years - bought it from my boss when I worked at the swimming pool

Here is another one.

This one started as just a stock that someone gave me. Someone had cut off the barrel band portion of the forend and painted it black, then put it on a belt sander...then gave up...the stock is an original walnut one...so I decided to try and make lemonade out of this lemon. I added a Kingston Armory steel receiver and new take-off barrel, both were polished to a 5000 grit and hot blued. I modified the stock by adding finger grooves, adding flutes to the comb, redefining the grip area, adding a grip cap and sling swivels mimicking those of the Finger Groove Sporter model. I then refinished the aluminum butt plate and aluminum trigger housing in graphite black Cerakote.

Here are the before and after pictures







and the blog posts showing the process

https://tincanbandit.blogspot.com/2020/08/ruger-1022-finger-groove-sporter.html

https://tincanbandit.blogspot.com/2020/04/ruger-1022-finger-groove-sporter_76.html

https://tincanbandit.blogspot.com/2020/04/ruger-1022-finger-groove-sporter_7.html

https://tincanbandit.blogspot.com/2020/04/ruger-1022-finger-groove-sporter_18.html