Restored Damascus

[Parker Bachelder (Brad's Profile)]

Originally Posted by Dave Miles

Here's a picture of a P grade Bachelders did the case colors and the barrel.
Looks to me like the receiver was dirty or had oil spots left on it during the process?

Here is a sample of our bone charcoal color case. Dave's P grade receiver was done with a different process using tricalcium phosphate color enhancing. In that process the gun isnt restored like it would be in traditional bone charcoal color case hardening. Rather it is a less expensive way to add some color to a shiny shooter. Our traditional bone charcoal process involves tireless hours of polishing, as well as total degreasing. Here is a very similar P grade we recently totally restored.