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Is it possible to case color a stainless steel action? Or something to give a similar look?
 
Posts: 819 | Location: Missouri | Registered: 24 May 2002Reply With Quote
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I'm sure a talented airbrush artist can help you out! Wink On a more serious note, I don't think it is remotely possible.


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it sounds cool, i Don't think its posible
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SS changes color with heat.
Get a small tip on a Oxy Acetylene torch and have at it.
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Posts: 7361 | Location: South East Missouri | Registered: 23 November 2005Reply With Quote
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Talk to a knifemaker, some of them do some interesting case-color-like treatments to stainless using heat, oil, etc.
 
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I don't know if it can be done in the traditional sense, but lots of guys color stainless with heat. You can get some very interesting colors.

Get a piece of scrap stainless and try it for yourself, it doesn't take much to polish it off, so one scrap piece can be used multiple times.
 
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Send an e-mail to Turnbull. If anyone knows, he does.
 
Posts: 1135 | Location: corpus, TX | Registered: 02 June 2009Reply With Quote
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Here is a stainless steel putter that was colored using heat. Google "torching" or "torched" to see other examples and a description of the process people use.

Some guys quench in oil, some guys let them air cool. The degree of heating and method of cooling can produce different colors.

 
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Turnbull's shop says they can not color case harden stainless. However, as some of you have pointed out, stainless does color with heat and I am finding some general info including
http://www.bssa.org.uk/topics.php?article=140
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The problem is though. Stainless tempers differently then carbon steel. So trying the normal process on stainless will alter the heat treat of the steel and anything blue or purple is way to hot. It will soften the steel.


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i was wronng .. guess you can color it .. i figured you meant for an action


opinions vary band of bubbas and STC hunting Club

Information on Ammoguide about
the416AR, 458AR, 470AR, 500AR
What is an AR round? Case Drawings 416-458-470AR and 500AR.
476AR,
http://www.weaponsmith.com
 
Posts: 41020 | Location: Conroe, TX | Registered: 01 June 2002Reply With Quote
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I was thinking about coloring a SS action when I asked the question but it seems like the temperature ranges are too high. I will have to come up with a new plan.
 
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I recall inexpensive break action shotguns- .410's, starter guns for kids- that were CC'd using a chemical process, so they weren't really CC'd, but the colors were nice.
 
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