What do you think?

[DaleD]

I have a Dan Wesson 715 SS and after reading the new to me Dan Wesson thread saw EWK made muzzle brakes.

Do you think a blued one would look good on a SS Dan or should I wait for his SS model to come back in stock?
A part of me thinks a blued one sitting in front of a SS barrel might look good.. I dunno... You?

 

[1976B.L.Johns.]

I understand what you are saying.............

IMO, wait.

 

[ApacheCoTodd]

I think the contrast would look just like what you're describing; that you couldn't get the right one yet.

I would think the contrast would have to be pulled off somewhere else on the pistol as well for it to not look..... desperate.

Just an aesthetic opinion.

Another opinion is - you won't know what color it is while looking through the sights.

Todd.

 

[1976B.L.Johns.]

Another opinion is - you won't know what color it is while looking through the sights.

Yup!

 

[DaleD]

Thanks guys..

I guess i'll wait for a SS one..Kinda the way I was leaning to begin with.

 

[ApacheCoTodd]

Thanks guys..

I guess i'll wait for a SS one..Kinda the way I was leaning to begin with.

I guess if I ever came across blued and wanted stainless, I might buy it anyhow since I have an "in" with having it "hard-chromed" and the difference would be considerably minimized.

Just something to think about if you already know the expense of it being chromed. Usually minimized by doing all the prep-work yourself and waiting for it to be done with a larger commercial batch of another contract's items.

Todd.

 

[DaleD]

Well if curiosity killed the cat and I were a cat i'd be dead.. I ordered a blued one just to see how well they work and if I like it I can always grab a SS one down the road and sell this one..

I hate the internet and credit cards kinda...

 

[bannockburn]

DaleD

As Todd mentioned in his post if the blued one is to your liking but you'd like it to match the stainless steel you could always have it hard chrome plated. I have had great results using Ron Mahovsky at Metalife to hard chrome plate my guns. You might want to give him a call to see what his price would be on doing your EWK muzzle brake.

 

[doubleh]

You could just polish it if you like it. A quick coat of Johnson’s paste wax now and then will keep it looking good. I turned down a Green Mountain 10-22 bull barrel around 10 years ago and left it in the white to match the rest of the gun which I polished. Johnson’s has kept both the steel and aluminum looking as good as the day I completed the build.

 

[ApacheCoTodd]

Well if curiosity killed the cat and I were a cat i'd be dead.. I ordered a blued one just to see how well they work and if I like it I can always grab a SS one down the road and sell this one..

I hate the internet and credit cards kinda...

And..... You now have a pre-engineered excuse to pop for the next blued one that catches your eye.

Todd.

 

[bannockburn]

doubleh

Good idea! I did that with an Essex 1911 frame that I put together. The bluing was already starting to wear while I was working on the frame so I decided I would just remove the bluing with sandpaper and steel wool. Gave it a high polish look and I have left it in the white all these years without a hint of rust anywhere on it.

 

[forrest r]

It won't have that ss look for long, hit the loud button a bunch of times and it will be two tone. Black on top/ss on the bottom.

You should be looking at buying 6/1000th's shims also. In a perfect would you screw it on and the hole point up and you have 4/1000th's +/- cylinder gap. More often then not that is not the case. I turned mine down on a lathe to get the correct alignment and still use a 6/1000th shim as a washer/anti-friction washer.

I use the muzzle breaks coupled with the EKW heavy bbl shrouds. They make a fantastic combo when paired with my favorite plinking loads, 158gr cast/coated fn hp's with 8.0gr of power pistol.

 

[Zaydok Allen]

SS.

Wait