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I'm looking to have my Baby Eagle coated after I clean up some of the machining, and I want to get rid of the false advertising on the side that claims it's a "Desert Eagle Pistol" when it isn't. The engraving is pretty deep, so while the surface it's on is perfectly flat, flat-milling it thin enough to remove the text seems a bit much. Is there a combination of filling technique/material and coating technique/material that plays well together and ends up mechanically durable (corrosion-proof is nice but secondary) and black (smooth satin preferred, but I'm not too picky)? Solder? JB Weld? Cerakote and just dump a dozen heavy coats of it onto the area of the text? I understand that nitride appearance depends on metal composition, so if I fill the letters in with welding rod, even if I machine the result perfectly flat, the metallurgical differences might be visible in the final result; can anyone confirm or correct?
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