Hoping you gents can help me out. My son, under the name 'Ajerbullets' used to post here all the time. He was an absolute AK junkie who over time ended up with an SAR-1, a Krebs built AK74, an AK103 build and lastly a Polish underfolder build.
He lived and breathed AKs and I picked up a little bit of the lingo from him. Andy was killed in a car wreck a little over a week ago. While I no longer have my son, I now have his AKs. He had his 74 and 47 underfolder in the trunk on the day of the accident as he was coming back from doing some shooting with some friends up north.. The 74 came through without a scratch, but some kind of liquid was sprayed over the metal on the 47 underfolder that ruined the finish.
I don't know if it sounds strange, but for some reason I feel it important to get that Polish underfolder refinished as Andy would never have let it be in anything but the best possible condition. He spent so much time taking care of his AKs I sometimes wondered if he slept with the things.
Are there companies that will refinish the gun for me? If so, what kind of cost would I be looking at and what would need to be sent to them to get it done? I don't imagine that I'd be sending any of the internals along with, but does the rest go including the wood work?
I guess it's goofy to be thinking about this stuff so soon after Andy is gone, but his AKs meant that much to him and I feel like I owe it to him to keep them up to his standards. Needless to say I wouldn't ever part with them.
Guess I'll have to do a bit of learning about them too
Dan