Has anybody engraved

rhenrichs

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Has anybody engraved a Walther P99 slide?....How hard are they?....The gun is black....Is the gun blued or do they have a hard coating to make them black?

Any help would be much appreciated....

Roger Henrichs
 

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Has anybody engraved a Walther P99 slide?....How hard are they?....The gun is black....Is the gun blued or do they have a hard coating to make them black?

Any help would be much appreciated....

Roger Henrichs

Roger,

They are Tenifer treated like a Glock to a 64 Rockwell C hardness rating.
 

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Tenifer! Run!!!

Seriously if you want to engrave it you need to remove all the tenifer finish (blast it) or use a replacement slide that doesn't have the tenifer.
 

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Those finishes can be stoned off. Get some Gesswein "roughing" stones to do the heavy lifting then polish out to desired level of finish.

I did a Sig Sauer that had this on it. It came off fairly well. The underlying stainless was hard but doable. I suggest avoiding any style requiring relief engraving. You will thank me later.
 

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Thank You All for your responses....your input was appreciated
I turned the job down.....It was a lettering job on a gun being given to a retiring cheif of police....

Roger
 
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