Cerakote damaged during barrel cutting and threading

[brancher147]

I just had my old Tikka M595 cut and threaded by a local gunsmith. Upon getting home I noticed the cerakote had been damaged. Is this normal?

I don’t want to immediately blame the gunsmith…maybe my cerakote wasn’t the greatest to begin with, but the cerakote was only a couple years old (done by another local gunsmith) with very minimal use.

 

[Nine Banger]

Looks like it went in a lathe without a protective layer between the cerakote and the contact points on the chuck.

I think its par for the course that cerakote has to be re-coated after alterations; maybe the machinist just assumed you knew this, or knows it himself now after the fact. I'm guessing the latter, since he didn't say anything about it.

I have one barrel that's cerakoted and it has marks on it from the field and from the barrel vise when I took it off.

It's oversold as a protective coating. At the end of the day it's essentially paint. Applied on metal, any other contact with metal will scrape it right off.

 

[Blake C]

Just re coat it. Looks like your prep wasn't great. Or it was air cured. Proper prep with oven cured series will scratch, but I haven't seen it scratch off like that.

 

[Judd]

That wouldn’t be easy to accomplish just by sliding in and out of the spindle. I threaded one yesterday and told the guy there could be clamp marks on both ends (there wasn’t). I agree with Blake.