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<blockquote data-quote="NikatKimber" data-source="post: 907163" data-attributes="member: 423"><p>I understand the not wanting to hurt the value, or the "worn / character" sentiment, but if I want a high polish shiny blue on my gun, I don't give a lickin spit who thinks I shouldn't. If you want it to look new, get it refinished.</p><p></p><p>I look at it like this: if my grandpa had a gun, that he wore everywhere, put some good honest wear on the finish, and he kept it that way, I would keep it that way if it was passed down to me. Because that would be the way I remembered grandpa having it. On the other hand, if grandpa had a gun that had been passed down generation to generation, say a Winchester 1873 1 of 1000 (yes, I watched Winchester '73 last night) and it had been kept like brand spanking new up to grandpa having it, and then it got passed to the bad uncle of the family, and he drug it out hunting and let it go to crap, rusty, tarnished... if it then got passed to me, I don't care if it was worth $50k in the original finish, and refinishing made it lose $49k of that, I would refinish it, because that was the way I remembered grandpa having it. It's a gun. The sentimental value of it is in the condition that makes it sentimental. Not necessarily the most valuable.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NikatKimber, post: 907163, member: 423"] I understand the not wanting to hurt the value, or the "worn / character" sentiment, but if I want a high polish shiny blue on my gun, I don't give a lickin spit who thinks I shouldn't. If you want it to look new, get it refinished. I look at it like this: if my grandpa had a gun, that he wore everywhere, put some good honest wear on the finish, and he kept it that way, I would keep it that way if it was passed down to me. Because that would be the way I remembered grandpa having it. On the other hand, if grandpa had a gun that had been passed down generation to generation, say a Winchester 1873 1 of 1000 (yes, I watched Winchester '73 last night) and it had been kept like brand spanking new up to grandpa having it, and then it got passed to the bad uncle of the family, and he drug it out hunting and let it go to crap, rusty, tarnished... if it then got passed to me, I don't care if it was worth $50k in the original finish, and refinishing made it lose $49k of that, I would refinish it, because that was the way I remembered grandpa having it. It's a gun. The sentimental value of it is in the condition that makes it sentimental. Not necessarily the most valuable. [/QUOTE]
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