Posted: 8/13/2008 3:43:33 PM EDT
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Anyone have a gun finished / refinished with black chrome? Where'd you get the work done? Got any good pics of the finish? Any other info on this finish? |
I've read that it's about as hard as nickle, not as hard as regular chrome. The problem is no place has high resolution/ good pics of what the finished product looks like on a firearm. |
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I just dug around on APW's website and can't find the description I remember. Here is the website APW website |
I think you mean this? I've done a lot of googling and am still stuck without a single decent photo of a black chrome firearm. ETA: I am on a quest of sorts for a firearm finsih to put on my Sig. I don't want a spray & bake finish, and bluing isn't durable enough, I also wanted to keep it all black. If that isn't very feasible I will just go chrome or NP3. |
I bow before your searching skills.  After reading that description I wonder why it isn't more popular? I can't remember ever seeing a gun done in black chrome. Good luck on the picture search. ETA: Sigs bluing on the older carbon steel slide guns sucks. I have a P220 that needs to be refinished but I think I am going to go with APW's matte hard chrome on it. |
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I had it done to a TA 90 that I picked up second hand. The nickel finish was trashed so I had it black chromed at a place we had our barrels hard chromed at. The finish lasted for about 3 years then started to flake of under the slide and at the slide/frame interface and then spread rapidly from there. Black chrome is a beauty finish, not a functional finish like hard chrome. Now if someone could do a black hard chrome that would be the cats ass! |