![]() Marlin also stressed quantity over quality which meant that production was greatly increased during the Marlin era by spending less time on finishing a gun a fact especially noted in the checkering quality and parts fitment on Field and Ideal Grades. Posted by Tom Archer on August 26, 2021, 5:00 pm, in reply to " Beveled lockplates"īesides making the wrist of Smith stocks (which were American black walnut, a wood more prone to splitting as Jerry noted) thicker, Marlin also changed the color case hardening process from bone charcoal to the cheaper cyanide process and further, changed the barrel bluing process from the traditional slow rust blue process to a cheaper/faster process they developed call Du-lite (or something to that effect).
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