Thread: Man I wish someone would create black stainless steel.

I've used a lot of stainless bolts in construction. The hardness varies a lot in different stainless bolts so there seems to be different alloys used to make stainless. It seems like they could add something to make it black.

Originally Posted by asiparks

Thankyou !

It was done by Drake at Drake's gun works, but as there are only a couple of large industrial facilities that can perform the process, I'm guessing he likely sent it out to Coal Creek Armory.

I posted a 14K round teardown about a year ago right here, but the pics are rather helpfully not there anymore....


My NH has Ionbond on it...and the watch in the picture is ceramic ( zirconian oxide ). It's just slightly less hard than a diamond, but it has zero elastic properties. If I drop it from a decent height onto a hard surface, there's a good chance it will splinter, perhaps shatter... not so good for guns....

Thanks! I see you're a Crimson Trace fan, too!

Springer Precision in Bend also offers Ionbond DLC coating. I had them coat my AR15 BCG and am considering sending in my XD slide since the Ceracote coating I had done is starting to show wear after 4 months.

Originally Posted by lucky strike

Springer Precision in Bend also offers Ionbond DLC coating. I had them coat my AR15 BCG and am considering sending in my XD slide since the Ceracote coating I had done is starting to show wear after 4 months.

I'm interested in having a tricked out stainless mini 14 and my BHPs done