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Man, you hook me up with some Thai go go dancers and I'll hook you up with some bluing. Of course, I might have some "bluing" myself after the dancers... but thats why they have penicillin!

Yeah, rust, boil, card. The boiling neutralizes the rusting process and converts the rust from ferrous oxide to ferro-ferric oxide (I had to look that up, I didn't know it off the top of my head like...

It depends on the light. They're black in most, gun metal greyish in bright light. They mostly look a very deep blue/gray or black.

Yeah, its definitely a deep and durable finish, but I tested it and it did come off the spine when I stropped it aggressively on a pasted hanging strop, so its going to come off the spine, and prolly...

Yeah, the guy I bought the bluing solution from said something about not boiling every time, but when I questioned he further he said he did, or at least I think thats what happened in that...

Well, you wont be able put a shave ready razor in and have it come out sharp, the process does remove some of the surface metal. After honing, the one blued razor I'm using and have rehoned works...

Did you degrease and only handle the blade with gloves during the process?. Also, I think the order is supposed to be rust, boil, card, repeat.

Wow, that's weird. This sort of thing always seems to happen on these forums. I just rust blued three razors last week, but I had done a few batches of "experiments" on junkers that I wasn't worried...