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If you're dead set on doing the bluing , polish up the parts  , and while doing the polishing , wear a pair of those cheap cotton gloves to eliminate skin oil from touching w/fingers.  Get some Brownell's  OXPHO Blue liquid.  Just wipe it on a time or two.  More times it's applied , the bluer it will be.  Back in he early 1970's , Dick Getz , Getz Barrel Co. baked a  large Siler lock plate in a conventional kitchen oven at 450 deg. F.  for a time.  It looked good.  I'll stick w/ Oxpho Blue , 'cause the resulting blue/black color was the same , and easy. May not be as durable , but I'll just redo it.