Weird Brasser.

[Len]

Cast brass with unusually big grains (or chrystals). The zinc contents of the alloy seems to have been corroded out from the grain boundaries. The white stuff is zinc oxide. Ammonia has that effect. Someone left it in the cow shed or the stables.
It's severely weakened. I wouldn't shoot it.
Just my humble thoughts.

[Hawg]

No Len, that's the way brass kits used to come.

[Captainkirk]

No Len, that's the way brass kits used to come.

+1

[G Dog]

That brass looks brittle.  It might make a good hand grenade.  I doubt I’d ever learn to trust that frame for actual shooting.

I have never seen a kit gun that rough and corroded, ever.

Keep sanding, 4x4.  Will be interesting to see what happens.

[Hawg]

I have never seen a kit gun that rough and corroded, ever.

Then you've never seen a kit from the 60's and 70's.

[Clydesdale4x4]

My powder measure is 44 grains (yeah Johnny Roper is my spirit animal), I filled that just over half full (it tapers) and let it go off 12 times over Christmas. Capping was painful, got 12 reduced charges out of this, and 12 full 44 grain charges out of the stainless. And my fingers hurt. There’s no way I was over a “mouse fart” load, probably about 20-25 grains. Locked up tight, feels good. Sadly? It feels better then the Stainless does as far as action smoothness and crispness goes.

Will find a different measure and keep this in the 28-32 range. Which seems to be where people shoot the brasses. If that’s high? Lemme know. Also heading down the Dick Dastardly snake wagon or snake charmer or grease wagon whatever his truncated 170 grain conical is.

Thinking this may be the accuracy plinker. And a great kids gun for range day.

[Hawg]

20 grains is about as high as you want to go with brass.

[Clydesdale4x4]

Turns out the measure is 40. The “half mark” (measured it a year ago) is like 16, and I was throwing just over half. So we were right about there.
I’ll find a 20 grain measure for it.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/oMKDaJSuY7saVpDP6

[Clydesdale4x4]

nothing to do with mine.
But brain dead surfing on the internet lead me to Reeder's Custom Guns...
Boy he has some purty ones.

I thought this was an odd choice to make a bespoke classic

https://reedercustomguns.com/instock.html
(the last one)

https://reedercustomguns.com/instock/instock13.html

Purdy, but, it's brass... the question "why, though?" comes to mind.

[Hawg]

Some sucker will buy it.

[woodnbow]

Reeder knows revolvers and he used to offer a .50 Ruger conversion like Clements so it’s kind of surprising he wasted his time with this.

[Clydesdale4x4]

where I'm at.

[Hawg]

It's getting there.

[Clydesdale4x4]

Closer

[Clydesdale4x4]

wish there wasa way to season the barrel, so I could leave it in the white.
Entire frame and barrel assembly is now dry 220/440 sanded, and then wet sanded 1000/1500/2000, and then hand polished with Zephyr Pro40.

I thought I was happy with my Taylor and Company Stainless Sheriff's '58... Nah... It pails in comparo to this kit gun, and will be next.
Smokey's Lyman, has Patina'd to almost an original production hue, that';; be left alone, but this brasser and that Sheriff... They gonna gleam, lol.

We can still see some machining/lack of sanding marks in the brass. I'll decide how bad they bother me (they exist in my $550 Sheriff's as well) and then eliminate them or leave them. Gut says eliminate...