SBR - refinish after engraving or leave it plain?

[mkwerx]

At some point this year, after this stupidity from the covid passes and things normalize, I want to form 1 my AR pistol to an SBR, one of the things I'm wondering - how many of you guys who have been there, done that, have your lower refinished (anodized or paint on finish) vs leaving the engraved bits unfinished. I know leaving it unfinished means no issues with depth on the engraving, provided they engraved it right to begin with, and the ATF has tried jamming people up for paint that got into their engraving (FPS Russia is an example thats off the top of my head, tho to be fair they were trying to jam him up for anything and everything they could - but they tried hitting him up for defacing the serial number because there was some paint on a refinished gun in the serial number)

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[nehalemguy]

Birchwood Casey Aluminum Black. ???

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[PDXSparky]

Sharpie

 

[Rockys]

I tried a sharpie, it looks kinda crappy. I must had used an old one or something.

 

[madmax]

I need to reblue my SBS. Between, wear, dribbling and engraving. She needs some love

 

[mkwerx]

That's a beauty of a gun!