Chdamn
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So, long story but my buddy's wife gave me a worn out, grim encrusted, bare metal showing, checkering worn out O/U shotgun that belonged to her Grand Father and asked me if I could make it look good again for her to put up. We discussed blueing but since they will probably never going to shoot it we settled on cerakote for the metal.
Within 6 months, working in my spare time, I had the stock stripped, steamed out all the dents, rechased all of the checkering and dyed the wood just a little to really bring out the natural beauty. Then I put on 15 hand rubbed coats of my special tru-oil/armorall combination finally topping it with gloss polyurethane to keep it from drying out sitting on a mantel for the next 20 years.
Another friend of mine was supposed to do the metal but kept putting me off and off and off until finally I said just give me the gun back so I can find someone to do it. 6 months later (2 years total time elapsed) I finally got the gun back.
I called another good friend of mine Tony (@muskrat) because I knew he used to play around with cerakote. I didn't realize he had turned playing into a full time professional quality side business.
He did a phenomenal job and did it quickly. If you didn't know this was cerakote you would think it was blued.
Not only did he cerakote it, he broke the gun all the way down, cleaned and lubed all of the internals and put it all back together again.
He blasted all of the metal to be coated and smoothed out any imperfections before coating it.
PM Tony if you have anything you need done. I would literally trust him to do anything I wanted done and I got to see some of his fancier patterned stuff he's done for others.
Within 6 months, working in my spare time, I had the stock stripped, steamed out all the dents, rechased all of the checkering and dyed the wood just a little to really bring out the natural beauty. Then I put on 15 hand rubbed coats of my special tru-oil/armorall combination finally topping it with gloss polyurethane to keep it from drying out sitting on a mantel for the next 20 years.
Another friend of mine was supposed to do the metal but kept putting me off and off and off until finally I said just give me the gun back so I can find someone to do it. 6 months later (2 years total time elapsed) I finally got the gun back.
I called another good friend of mine Tony (@muskrat) because I knew he used to play around with cerakote. I didn't realize he had turned playing into a full time professional quality side business.
He did a phenomenal job and did it quickly. If you didn't know this was cerakote you would think it was blued.
Not only did he cerakote it, he broke the gun all the way down, cleaned and lubed all of the internals and put it all back together again.
He blasted all of the metal to be coated and smoothed out any imperfections before coating it.
PM Tony if you have anything you need done. I would literally trust him to do anything I wanted done and I got to see some of his fancier patterned stuff he's done for others.
