black oxide kit for firearms ? worth it or not

[sgmg10]

Hi guys i am new here i have a new project for my firearm 1911 thinking of black oxide kit is the same as black powder coat that you see on firearms right ?and will it scratch and peal off ?. does caswell have od green? thnking of doing two tone . hlelp thanks.

[Brintiff]

Black oxide is nothing like powder coating. If you want a two tone look you'll need to use a ceramic spray on coating or one of the teflon/moly coatings. I highly recommend cerakote, I've coated well over 100 firearms with it, a lot of them duty guns, holds up great. Norrels Moly Resin and Gunkote are both teflon/moly type coatings, stay away from Duracote, in my opinion it is garbage. I strongly advise against powder coating anything besides an AK, the PC is way to thick of a coating to apply to most guns. I really cannot recommend the black oxide for firearms either, it's a cold black oxide that does not hold up like a hot black oxide does. I have used Caswells BO on nuts,bolts,pins and other non gun parts, it just is not a very good gun coating.

[sgmg10]

Hi thank you for the reply i cant be cheap on my $ 1000 1911 45acp lol going with either mac's shootin iron two tone matte black and od green or matted hardchrome mahovsky metallife . thank you