swilliams
6.5 Creedmoor
If there were some way to do a dark bronze finish on all the metal parts of a rifle, then use FDE for the rest. The bronze like this. Is there a way to do that?
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If there were some way to do a dark bronze finish on all the metal parts of a rifle, then use FDE for the rest. The bronze like this. Is there a way to do that?
kev74
20×102mm Vulcan
I get scared when my wife says that. Its never related to guns.
Duracoat or Cerracoat would be your best bet.
swilliams
6.5 Creedmoor
I wish. Door knobs would mean I actually got around to putting the doors up.
Will cerakote (sp?) give you that kind of a metallic look? I always thought it was flat.
kev74
20×102mm Vulcan
4excal
.338 Win Mag
At that time of the day he was eating beef stroganoff and selling me BulletGuy raffle tix LOL.. Right under the bus! LOL
spat
.700 Nitro Express
You could actually bronze plate it if you wanted....
There's a place near here that sells kits, but it'd be expensive for a one off, and I imagine you have to try a few test items before you'll get one to come out right:
http://www.caswellplating.com/electroplating-anodizing/bronze-plating-kits.html
I am sure if you find a local metal plating company they could plate it however you want.
There's a place near here that sells kits, but it'd be expensive for a one off, and I imagine you have to try a few test items before you'll get one to come out right:
http://www.caswellplating.com/electroplating-anodizing/bronze-plating-kits.html
I am sure if you find a local metal plating company they could plate it however you want.
I think the closest Cerakote color would be Barrett Bronze, but @GUNSICK would certainly know better than I.
Pulled these images off of Arfcom of someone having done thier quad rails in the color. Looks a little different in different lights and probably would look brighter than the dark bronze pictured on the door handle if coating a big area.
It's hard to find pictures on google images because all the other bronze variants come up also.
Pulled these images off of Arfcom of someone having done thier quad rails in the color. Looks a little different in different lights and probably would look brighter than the dark bronze pictured on the door handle if coating a big area.
It's hard to find pictures on google images because all the other bronze variants come up also.
Ah,, here we go. here's the representation of Barrett Bronze right on the Cerakote site
swilliams
6.5 Creedmoor
Wow. The lighting really does change the way it looks. On my monitor, I love the rails, but the gun just looks brown.
Deplorable Me
.700 Nitro Express
Guns as a fashion statement.
kev74
20×102mm Vulcan
Back in America, some people wear their "Barbeque Guns" like jewelry. In NewYork-a-stan we hide them in closets and tell others that we lost them in boating accidents.
swilliams
6.5 Creedmoor
This would be my personal idea of pretty, since I'm not big on pink as a fashion statement.
HIghlander
.223 Rem
You could call it the Doc Savage color.
It's the shine I think of real metal that makes the color appealing. I like shiny things; which is why my stainless steel guns are mostly polished to a true reflective mirror finish.
Reflective shine like that is difficult (if not impossible) to achieve with coatings and generally can only be done by real plating. Your vision sounds appealing to me also, but maybe there a good reason for that not being done because I don't know that I have ever seen a gun plated or anodized in bronze. If you search online for 'bronze plated guns' all you get are toys and the occasional dull finish cerakoted gun.
Robin
.577 Tyrannosaur.
Just leave them out in the sun for a while.
Robin
Robin