re: The sweet sixteen is back

About 15 years ago Grandaddy gave me the one he bought in the 1950's and I still use it all of the time. I've used it so much that the bluing is just about gone and it is actually down to bare metal along the edges of the barrel where they slide back into the friend during the recoil cycle.
Over the last couple of years I've used it less and less because of the wear and thinking he wouldn't want me to have anything done to it. Low and behold he asked to see it the other day when he was over here and commented how "we really ought to take it and have it refinished".