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Posted: 10/14/2017 1:41:05 AM EDT

Do we have one? I'd like to see what others have done. I recently acquired several new WASR's, but I didn't have a BFPU in the collection.
So I started this project yesterday. Still more to do.

Posted: 10/20/2017 8:31:00 PM EDT

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Not exactly BFPU, but it’s old and beat up. I did put a Yugo or Romanian stock set on it though. One of those old ones from Apex.

Posted: 10/20/2017 9:44:54 PM EDT

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Do we have one? I'd like to see what others have done. I recently acquired several new WASR's, but I didn't have a BFPU in the collection.
So I started this project yesterday. Still more to do.

http://imagehost.vendio.com/a/11242007/view/BFPU1.jpg

http://imagehost.vendio.com/a/11242007/view/BFPU2.jpg

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That looks good, what did you use to get that worn look on it?

Posted: 10/21/2017 2:24:54 AM EDT

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Hopefully by using it.

I can appreciate the look of a well worn gun but never quite got why people force the look on a perfectly good finish....ah well, it's not my rifle.

You should probably throw it in a creek for some authenticy.

Posted: 10/21/2017 10:54:47 AM EDT

[#4]

In terms of the BFPU look, you did a good job...

Nothing wrong with something a little different than the norm, I suppose.

Posted: 10/21/2017 12:43:24 PM EDT

[#5]

The BFPU look may seem odd, but is it really any different than camo-ing a rifle?

Posted: 10/21/2017 6:23:15 PM EDT

[#6]

I like it

Posted: 10/23/2017 3:44:36 PM EDT

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The BFPU look may seem odd, but is it really any different than camo-ing a rifle?

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Usually involves an application of steel wool to take the finish off the high spots to simulate actual wear.

I have one of Atlantic's Romanian md 65 underfolders with the BFPU treatment. Looks like it spent years being used daily in a Third World hellhole, which is exactly what I wanted.

Posted: 10/23/2017 4:37:52 PM EDT

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Usually involves an application of steel wool to take the finish off the high spots to simulate actual wear.

I have one of Atlantic's Romanian md 65 underfolders with the BFPU treatment. Looks like it spent years being used daily in a Third World hellhole, which is exactly what I wanted.

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Good response, my comment was meant for people who may knock the effort of the BFPU look as presumably being artificial and unnecessary. To me camo-ing a rifle is just one aesthetic choice, BFPU is another

Posted: 11/1/2017 6:20:31 PM EDT

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The BFPU look may seem odd, but is it really any different than camo-ing a rifle?

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My take on it is it ruins the intended purpose of the applied finish, which is to protect the metal from the elements to some degree. I have a chinese pre-ban AK that I picked up cheap due to the BFPU look. I had it hot blued to restore what some joker thought would be cool to destroy (but it will never be the same shade as the original finish). Right now it wears a Romy buttstock painted OD green to match the Magpul MOE HG set I installed til I find a matching set of the original wood that the PO thought would look better after being beaten with a full key ring to give that fucked up look....Oh well, to each his own I guess.

Posted: 11/2/2017 11:16:22 AM EDT

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I tend to keep my guns as nice as I can, but sometimes I do step out and do things differently. I have a M70AB2 that I use as a truck gun and as such it has picked up a fair amount of finish wear. A few years ago I picked up some of the Balkan War BPU wood that APEX was selling and I threw it on. The sling came with the rifle when I bought it and was already frayed as pictured. It lives in my tool box in my truck and gets little care beyond an occasional cleaning.

Posted: 11/2/2017 5:18:46 PM EDT

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My take on it is it ruins the intended purpose of the applied finish, which is to protect the metal from the elements to some degree. I have a chinese pre-ban AK that I picked up cheap due to the BFPU look. I had it hot blued to restore what some joker thought would be cool to destroy (but it will never be the same shade as the original finish). Right now it wears a Romy buttstock painted OD green to match the Magpul MOE HG set I installed til I find a matching set of the original wood that the PO thought would look better after being beaten with a full key ring to give that fucked up look....Oh well, to each his own I guess.

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I hear you

Posted: 11/2/2017 5:19:04 PM EDT

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Hot rifle there HP, nicely done

Posted: 11/2/2017 6:16:55 PM EDT

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My Yugo M64. It is a Matt Yeamans re-weld and the wood and metal finish are all original except for the area that was welded on the receiver. I used cold blue to blend the weld area in with the rest of the rifle. No steel wool or scotch brite pads here.

Posted: 11/2/2017 10:43:52 PM EDT

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That looks good, what did you use to get that worn look on it?

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The finish is actually darker than it looks, especially once I oiled it. I know a lot of people will use steel wool and the like, but I took a different approach.
I used 2F powder (For woodworking) oil, and a felt bad. That way, I didn't put scratches in the finish, just wore the finish off here and there.
Romanian guns are first parkerized, and then taken to the black oxide tank, according to a member of another site that observed this at the factory.
I think it would have turned out really looking good if it was just a black oxide finish, VS the factory conversion finish.

Posted: 11/2/2017 11:12:30 PM EDT

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My Yugo M64. It is a Matt Yeamans re-weld and the wood and metal finish are all original except for the area that was welded on the receiver. I used cold blue to blend the weld area in with the rest of the rifle. No steel wool or scotch brite pads here.

https://s20.postimg.org/8jupm6cxp/M64_2.jpg

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User name fits the story of this rifle.

She's a beauty.

Posted: 11/15/2017 10:48:30 PM EDT

[#16]

Nice,
I have one but this is the best pic I have. this is from a veterans day display I made this weekend.

Posted: 11/15/2017 11:51:17 PM EDT

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Nice,
I have one but this is the best pic I have. this is from a veterans day display I made this weekend.

https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/20856/IMG_2053_JPG-360029.jpg

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That's a beautiful but sad pic.

Posted: 11/17/2017 2:56:39 AM EDT

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Well, I didn't do any BFPU to it, but the kit I built came from the Balkans war. The grenade sight was cut down. Just a little trench art, basically the guys nickname. It's on the handguard and was on the pistol grip, which I changed for compliance. Built on one of those NDS receivers that went rusty, cleaned it up and had it black oxided.

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