What to do with an ugly M29-2?

How about one of the new-tech coatings? Cerakote or similar? I don't know anything about them other than that they are popular with the slide-top guys. I wonder what a 29 would look like in FDE or digital camo?
Just thinking out loud, as I don't even know if such coatings would last five minutes on a wheelgun, what with the flame-cutting, cylinder gap issue plus the turn-line wear.
 
Does the water damaged finish have anything to do with a fire?
I have seen this type of damage before and in many cases they were damaged like the one show by a house fire. Maybe in a safe sitting in water in a basement, caused by fire hoses.

If this is fire damage be careful as the metal maybe weakened.
 
SaxonPig said:
The finish is bad enough to warrant refinishing in blue or nickel. A 29 should be in blue or nickel. I also like the 5" idea.

"Hard chrome" or some other industrial finish would be an abomination. Rather leave it as is. That's how ugly "hard chrome" is in my opinion.
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The finish (Metalife) I was considering looks like stainless. I would rather have it black.
 
Penmon said:
Does the water damaged finish have anything to do with a fire?
I have seen this type of damage before and in many cases they were damaged like the one show by a house fire. Maybe in a safe sitting in water in a basement, caused by fire hoses.

If this is fire damage be careful as the metal maybe weakened.
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No, it was a flood. This I am sure of. Left it in a doskocil case. It probably was rusted in the case before the flood. I have already put 250 full power 240 gr. JHP's through it so...It's fine.
 
Accurate Plating has three grades of hard chrome finish. Matte, Satin and High Polish.

Matte is just what it says...matte. The Satin looks like stainless. High Polish looks just like nickel but has just a hint of blue.

Daily carry gun for seven years...finish still looks like new. This is two tone, matte frame with a satin slide.



This one is satin frame and slide...



Both guns...




..and high polish...the best looking Combat Commander I have ever seen...



 
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SaxonPig said:
Yes, your gun. Do as you please. But if you hard chrome or cerakote or any other non-gun finish please put warning in the title if you post photos so I won't open it.
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I don't understand, Metalife and Cerakote were both designed as gun finishes.
 
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SuperMan said:
Accurate Plating has three grades of hard chrome finish. Matte, Satin and High Polish.

Matte is just what it says...matte. The Satin looks like stainless. High Polish looks just like nickel but has just a hint of blue.

Daily carry gun for seven years...finish still looks like new. This is two tone, matte frame with a satin slide.



This one is satin frame and slide...



Both guns...




..and high polish...the best looking Combat Commander I have ever seen...



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Very nice stable you have there Superman.
 
Years ago I bought a four inch M28 on GB. The outside had major scrapes and scratches. I only half kiddingly speculated that it came out of the holster of a motorcycle cop at 75 mph and skidded on cement for a hundred yards. Internally it was decent but well used. I got it for a cheap price but knew it would pain me to look at it like that.

So I sent it to S&W for the basic service. Had them send it on to APW. I didn't want it to be shiny like nickel so I told them to go matte chrome. When it came back, I was beyond thrilled. It went from a sad and damaged looking gun to one that is a top ten favorite to show to other gun people. I was surprised how the finish came out... it looks like a flat stainless gun. I always kid people that it is a prototype M628. Sure is what it looks like.

For a heavily cosmetically challenged gun, I would go that direction again in a heartbeat.
 
tulsamal said:
Years ago I bought a four inch M28 on GB. The outside had major scrapes and scratches. I only half kiddingly speculated that it came out of the holster of a motorcycle cop at 75 mph and skidded on cement for a hundred yards. Internally it was decent but well used. I got it for a cheap price but knew it would pain me to look at it like that.

So I sent it to S&W for the basic service. Had them send it on to APW. I didn't want it to be shiny like nickel so I told them to go matte chrome. When it came back, I was beyond thrilled. It went from a sad and damaged looking gun to one that is a top ten favorite to show to other gun people. I was surprised how the finish came out... it looks like a flat stainless gun. I always kid people that it is a prototype M628. Sure is what it looks like.

For a heavily cosmetically challenged gun, I would go that direction again in a heartbeat.
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Great story, Who is APW?
 
blk_vctr said:
Sell it to me at a fair "shooter" price, I've been waiting for you to come along... LOL
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I still don't own it myself yet! I should have it transferred by this coming Friday though, and then she is mine, all mine...I never even knew I wanted one, or needed one till I met this one. She has charm, I put another 250 through her last weekend.
 
this is what I would do with it... chop it to a 3" barrel or even with the under lug, trigger work, dock the hammer ( not bob) standard re- blue, refinish the stocks and sell them, replace with magna panels and Tyler T... load it with 44 spl and carry the thing as my EDC....... good luck.
It would absolutely become a project gun... if I owned it.
 
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Faciously....(supposed to mean "humorously ")......How about converting it to belt feed??? The early Russian .50 gun had an open topped cylinder into which the cartridges were stripped by a feeding pawl. On your 29-, simply mill the tops off each cyl. bore....... use a flat sheet metal bottle opener to scrape the rnds out of the belt into each open milled space.....add a 48" finned barrel, a two wheeled cart......surely you can fan the hammer ala Bob Munden.......then you can go afield for game of any weight.....looking something like this;


Seriously........ I kinda agree w/the satin/blk hard chrome. I had a really tacky Luger done in that finish in 1966.......no idea where.....would have been a Shotgun-News advertiser.....did the Luger iridescent gold on the trigger & other small parts & I could hardly get it back from a gun shop clerk some time later.

PJH
 
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