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<blockquote data-quote="mauserkid" data-source="post: 345328" data-attributes="member: 18665"><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><img src="http://i464.photobucket.com/albums/rr10/mauserkid/ODGreenRedhawkafter.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"> This is my CCW, it is abused, and the holster is non-lined. Very coarse interior, There is a slight discoloration at muzzle, with the sharp muzzle starting to show. I cannot get a good picture of it, (old camera). </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"> This stuff is not bullet proof, but is tough stuff.. If conditions are present, like my holster, which I actually lie on working on equipment and so on, even metal will wear... </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"> </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"> I looked into another process used by tool and die makers, for the cutting surfaces that is a much harder, metal coating. Looks very cool, but the equipment to do this process started at one MILLION dollars.... It uses a vacuum chamber, magnetizes the metal to be treated, they have these disks they run electricity through. The disk let off a gas, the gas floats across the surface of the metal in a magnetic state.. The gas clings to the surface, and then hardened... </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"> So, due to the fact that no one would spend one hundred thousand to coat a handgun, I chose the Cerakote as the best, strongest alternative and there are a variety of colors to chose from.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: black"> Thought I would toss this in.. I coated a knife, and then I sharpened it... It seemed like hours of stoning to get to the metal. I actually felt an edge on the coating before I broke through to the metal..</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mauserkid, post: 345328, member: 18665"] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana][IMG]http://i464.photobucket.com/albums/rr10/mauserkid/ODGreenRedhawkafter.jpg[/IMG][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana] This is my CCW, it is abused, and the holster is non-lined. Very coarse interior, There is a slight discoloration at muzzle, with the sharp muzzle starting to show. I cannot get a good picture of it, (old camera). [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana] This stuff is not bullet proof, but is tough stuff.. If conditions are present, like my holster, which I actually lie on working on equipment and so on, even metal will wear... [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana] I looked into another process used by tool and die makers, for the cutting surfaces that is a much harder, metal coating. Looks very cool, but the equipment to do this process started at one MILLION dollars.... It uses a vacuum chamber, magnetizes the metal to be treated, they have these disks they run electricity through. The disk let off a gas, the gas floats across the surface of the metal in a magnetic state.. The gas clings to the surface, and then hardened... [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana] So, due to the fact that no one would spend one hundred thousand to coat a handgun, I chose the Cerakote as the best, strongest alternative and there are a variety of colors to chose from.[/FONT][/COLOR] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman] [/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman] [COLOR=black] Thought I would toss this in.. I coated a knife, and then I sharpened it... It seemed like hours of stoning to get to the metal. I actually felt an edge on the coating before I broke through to the metal..[/COLOR] [/FONT][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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