I bought a new production aluminum trigger guard/floor plate was bead blasted and painted black. Stripped it down yesterday and polished. Looks like brushed steel now. I'm going to anodize it a nice smooth, semigloss black.Good photo. It's always the little details that get you and having a photo, to review, is a great advantage and visual tool. Thanks!
I think using Cerakote for the Bolt Shroud, Bolt (body & knob) and the Bottom Metal, the safety and the sling swivels, is the best/easiest way to achieve the requisite "Semi-Gloss" and "Gloss" black finishes on these parts.
Now, for determining what part, is what type of finish, is the fun part.
1.) The Bottom Metal is a Semi-Gloss and in that, there is no dispute.
2.) Bolt Body: Semi-Gloss ?
3.) Bolt Shroud: Gloss ?
4.) Bolt Handle & Knob: Gloss? (Somewhere, along the line, from photographs, I've got it in my head that the parts, to the rear of the reciever (the Bolt Shroud, Bolt Handle and Bolt Knob) are a "Gloss" black finish, but the Bolt Body is Semi-Gloss.)
5.) Safety Lever: Semi-Gloss?
6.) Sling Swivels: Parkerized? Semi-Gloss Black?
I'd like to find out, part-by-part, for sure.
While we're on it, S.H. member "budiceale," who invited me to this site, for my build, used Cerakote's "Armorer's Black," for his own build and was very happy with the results.
As far as Parkerizing, a/k/a "messy... stuff from the past ?" I think, being from the past and being semi-messy, myself (by my own admission,) Parkerizing, for this build, is the way to go, for the action, barrel and Redfield mount (optional, of course.)
I do like the Cerakote finishes and used it for a recent .416 Rigby DGR build. You don't want to have to take this stuff off though, if you happen to change your mind later (not recommended.)
Yeah, well... this is important stuff!
The barrel and receiver look an almost zinc parked. This is a Dicks ADL Varmint. I'm convinced it's probably a painted finish. Duracoat Park or Tactical Grey/Green mixed with Tactical Black (and some flattening agent) would do nicely. Applied with an air brush. Looks good, though. I'm going to leave it. I'm going to strip down the bolt body and hot blue it.
Epoxy remover was used on the trigger guard assembly. It definitely was some type of epoxy based paint, a real bitch to get off.