Gunsmithing PTG bolt, coat it, blue it, NP3 it?

[KPK]

What's your thoughts. I have a blued action. Can the PTG bolt be blued? I think that may be nice looking...not tacticool, but nice and classic.

 

[RADcustom]

Re: PTG bolt, coat it, blue it, NP3 it?

As long as it isn't stainless steel, then yes, it can be blued.

 

[Emouse]

Re: PTG bolt, coat it, blue it, NP3 it?

Stainless can be "blued", it just isn't as easy to do as chem blacking of other non stainless steels; or indeed if you want it black then just get it nitrided.

 

[Ring]

Re: PTG bolt, coat it, blue it, NP3 it?

im black nitriding mine from H&M

 

[Gray]

Re: PTG bolt, coat it, blue it, NP3 it?

Robar NP3 ALL THE WAY!

 

[peligro113]

Re: PTG bolt, coat it, blue it, NP3 it?

I'd go with Cerakote Micro Slick

 

[Boltfluter]

Re: PTG bolt, coat it, blue it, NP3 it?

+1 for the Micro Slick.

Regards, Paul

 

[KPK]

Re: PTG bolt, coat it, blue it, NP3 it?

Would y'all do it before or after the action is trued and the bolt is fit?

 

[UNCIVILIZED]

Re: PTG bolt, coat it, blue it, NP3 it?

Do the coating after; albeit it's cheap insurance to talk to your smith about this.
As to finishes, I'd say talk to PTG to see if it'd be okay to Melonite it. If so, that's the way to go. And if you want to trick it out a bit, have it mod'ed so it looks like THIS

'Course some, including me, love the look of shiny flutes & a dark colored bolt. Perhaps even have the flutes titanium nitrided (?).
There also are a couple other recent threads about bolt coatings which may be of help. One's called To Ion-bon or Not??? And it has a link to another called Cerakotes Micro Slick?