Color Case Hardening Service
Color Case Hardening Service. Set your oven to 1600f and allow to warm up. We use the traditional wood and bone charcoal method of color case hardening.
Carburizing is the process of heating up a metal part in the presence of extra carbon,. We are a federally licensed firearms manufacturing and repair facility, located in scenic northern idaho, specializing in the faithful restoration of genuine bone charcoal color case hardening, rust bluing, and hand rubbed oil finishes on vintage and antique sporting arms. Antique firearm and winchester restorations.
I Break Apart And Sieve The Wood Charcoal To Approximate A 1/4″ To 1/2″ Diameter.
Materials worked with include stainless steel, carbon steel and other ferrous metals. Or we can receive you complete firearm for restoration. They are able to take care of disassembly/reassembly and full metal prepping on your firearm.
Common Case Hardened Parts Include:
Please email howell arms so we can provide you with a preliminary quote prior to shipping. At lohman gunsmith we use our special formula depending on the type of metal we use a combination that includes bone and or charcoal plus a few other things. Capabilities include heat treatment, integral quenching, atmosphere processing, furnace tempering, scanning and single point induction heating, laser surface hardening and vacuum processing.
+ Parts And Materials Note:
Both standard steel and gerfidic metals (post '64 winchesters) can be color case hardened. A risk with color case hardening is the warping of components during exposure to the extreme heat. The case hardening process was used as a finishing technique on many firearms over the years, and produces what are generally referred to as case colors.
Originally, This Process Used Bone Charcoal Heated To An Exact Temperature.
We provide a variety of services including: Frame/receiver 1 color $80.00 frame and slide 1 color $150.00 complete handgun 1 color with controls and pins $185.00 custom camo or pattern minimum charge $250.00 distress/battle worn additional $50.00 magazine must be done at same time/color as gun $15.00. Color case hardening is getting very popular.
We Have Specialized And Provided Steel Heat Treating Services For Over 60 Years.
The process results in a marbleized coloring of the parts and provides a thin hardened layer of steel while preserving a softer steel core. Do not color case harden well and we do not recommend it. If you would like to ship your firearm to finks custom gunsmithing at 2900 w gunsite road, paulden, az 86334.