black slide

[WI carrier]

anybody have a suggestion on blackening a cw slide, an affordable alternative to buying one from Kahr?

[Wolffire99]

Hard to beat for under $100

http://www.ccrrefinishing.com/pricing.html

[CJB]

If you have access to a small compressor....

I've had nothing but great success with the 2300 series GunKote from KKote (KalKoat).

Very user friendly, goes on like lacquer paint, bake in oven. Done. I suggest two or three not too thick coats. You can rebake it on itself, no problems. You DO need to degrease in something like naphtha (Home Depot).

Small touch up sprayer (NOT airbrush) is about $20 from Harbor Freight
The finish itself is about $10 from Midway
You can even go back with some "white" 2400 series GunKote after your final bake, and restore the sights to white dots (rebake, of course).

It also touches up EXTREMELY well. Degrease, dab on finish, bake. Done. Nearly invisible touch ups should you really abuse the finish. I dropped my slide stop on concrete garage floor, chipped finish... touch up was five minutes (and in the oven with a frozen pizza for dinner).

[Kahrslinger]

CJB. Any pics??

[WI carrier]

you got me tempted with the home spray job. i'll have to look into the details, but i have the equiptment neccesary.

[FireMoose]

since this is the internet, i'd like to point out that the CWs have, plastic front sights. plastic + over = bad

[Planedude]

Hard to beat Robar's and the things they do with Kahrs.

http://www.robarguns.com/

I plan to have them work my CW40 with a "Norton special" color job and add the Trijicon sights after I get back to work from my surgery. Not cheap but really well done on the pistols I have handeled.

[TucsonMTB]

since this is the internet, i'd like to point out that the CWs have, plastic front sights. plastic + over = bad

Yeah, the plastic front sight might melt in the oven. Fortunately, they are very cheap from Kahr and easy to install. Please allow me to suggest purchasing a replacement front sight, popping off the old one, coating the slide and installing the replacement front sight after the coating process is complete.

Best of luck!

[jeepster09]

anybody have a suggestion on blackening a cw slide, an affordable alternative to buying one from Kahr?

Send it out and have it Duracoated.

www.ahlmans.com

[CJB]

Dot restoration on a black slide (Kahr)


Black slide (Kahr)


Another (Kahr)

Don't mind the dust in these shots... its ON the finish, not IN... I used paper towel to "de-fingerprint" - dusty stuff.


Inside Kahr slide


Nasty looking Remington-Rand slide (WWII vintage slide) on a Caspian frame. This slide was "draw-filed" then sanded, but not perfectly... just enough to clean it up some before finish. The underslide area and behind the serrations were left as is.


Dots in progress - takes two or three "fills" to get good even edge to edge


Blue 2400 series on a 10/22


One more shot of Kahr with black 2300 series

[WI carrier]

thanks for all the input, i'm leaning towards the cerakote, sounds like a good deal, and a new set of sigts, maybe big dot. time to think about it