Refinishing in black

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Clevinger

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If you like metallic colors, you have options like NP3 that supposedly last forever and look good.

If you want to refinish something in black, however, what are your options? What is the toughest black coating you can get for refinishing?
 
I used Brownell's Baking Laquer on a shotgun a few weeks ago. I don't know if it's the toughest, I haven't put it through much since then. I just know it was pretty easy and it looks great.
 
The black coating on several guns seems to be pretty tough. Like on Glocks and Sigs and maybe even the black on Berettas. You can get a hard chrome that is black, called blackchrome. The infamous or famous Fords refinishing can do black chrome. But it is a glossy finish, I think. For cheap and reasonably durable you can have parkerising done in black, too. Nice matte black color. Spray on polymers can be pretty tough but they are not apparently chemically bonded to the metal like blueing or parkerising. I am doubtful something you get out of a spray can is gonna last as long as a pro finish. Especially if it is not baked on at high temps.
 
Tenifer is probably the toughest, but I like Birdsong's Black-T. It is teflon based and will scratch if raked across a barbed wire fence, but it's pretty tough and is smooth working b/c of the Teflon. A lot of the Special Force's guns are Black-T.
 
I don't know what it is, but the black coating on my Para Ordance "Big Hawg" is not tough at all. To make a long story short I was in a situation where I legally had to lock my guns in a small combination lock box. I didn't expect to get into that situation so I only had the one box. I put both my FNP-40 and my Big Hawg into the box. When they came out a few days later the Big Hawg was scratched and dinged up. Not too bad, but obvious. The FNP-40 didn't have a mark on it. If you can find out what FN uses on it, try for something like that, it's pretty good.
 
Same gun...different light...

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I did my M1 is an ionbond type milspec coating.

It rusted bad.

I did several others in Duracoat.

Not a hint of rust, anywhere.

All stored in the same place for years.
 
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The DLC stands for "Diamond Like Coating". I've actually seen someone scrape a knife down the side of a gun's slide and then wipe off the mark it left with a cloth.
 
The milspec coating I have is tough as nails. You have to sand blast it off.

When I had it done, the guy told me I could plug the barrel and set the rifle in a river, come back in a year and it would not rust.

Well Mine was stored in a case in a safe, and it rusted big time.

Ill stick with the duracoat
 
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