Blued Zipcore Tour Racks

[pollock21]

So I did a thing today. Blued my tour rack wedges and so far love the look. Time will tell how they hold up.   
 

Got the wedges and they started to get heavy patina, so I gave them a vinegar bath a few weeks ago to clean them up. Well, they were good, but when the rust started to come back it was really heavy. Like not just patina, like thick nasty rust. 
 

So I decided to strip them again and apply some gun blue. I went with the Birchwood Casey Perma-Blue. 
 

After the vinegar strip I wore gloves to keep oil off of them. Then hit them with some 0000 steel wool and applied the blue with some lint free rags. The color change happens within a few seconds. I kept wiping to get them uniform and then ran them under cold water at just under a minute. Dried them off then buffed with the steel wool again. Then repeated for a second coat. Once stripped the process takes about 5 minutes or so per wedge. The finish came out more like a dark gun metal. I’m hoping they hold up pretty well with the need for an occasional touch up. 
 

The lighting in the pictures is giving them a warmer tone than the actual result. 

[dbdors]

They certainly look nice!