Man I wish someone would create black stainless steel.

[slingshot1943]

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.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

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!

 

[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.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

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