I originally bought the pistol as a backup/training piece to my duty P228, found it on Gunbroker at a modest price of $400. When it arrived at the FFL I was in awe at the amount of wear this pistol had, the slide had virtually no finish remaining, the barrel looked in the white, and the frame looked pretty abused. I then did some searching online for basic refinishing, with priority to the frame which was rough on the outside, but not quite worn through at the frame rails. I ended up coming across US Anodizing, and finally decided on the "Navy" package, which consisted of type III anodizing the frame & aluminum parts, parkerizing the slide and other steel parts, then coating everything in what they call Xtremcoat. Fast forward about 2 months, and here is the results...
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