Bead Blast Barrel

RobertTheTexan · Apr 25, 2018

Hi

I just had an AR-10 308 barrel ball milled and am looking to have the barrel bead blasted.
Anyone know where I can get my barrel professionally bead blasted in Cemtral Texas?
Firsthand experience would be great, but a good reputation would also work.

Thanks!
RTT

C. Stevens · Apr 25, 2018

RobertTheTexan said:
Hi

I just had an AR-10 308 barrel ball milled and am looking to have the barrel bead blasted.
Anyone know where I can get my barrel professionally bead blasted in Cemtral Texas?
Firsthand experience would be great, but a good reputation would also work.

Thanks!
RTT

Try and contact metal efx. Jamie I think is the guys name. my uncle has had lots of cerakote and milling alterations to his firearms. All high quality work.

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TheDan · Apr 25, 2018

Define professionally...

Ole Cowboy · Apr 25, 2018

RobertTheTexan said:
Hi

I just had an AR-10 308 barrel ball milled and am looking to have the barrel bead blasted.
Anyone know where I can get my barrel professionally bead blasted in Cemtral Texas?
Firsthand experience would be great, but a good reputation would also work.

Thanks!
RTT

Just wondering...did you have this done POST rifling or as a barrel blank?

RobertTheTexan · Apr 26, 2018

TheDan said:
Define professionally...

Quality of work -I don’t care if it’s out of someone’s garage. My cerakote guy in Killeen works out of his garage, but he’s a professional - by the quality of his work. So I want someone who knows what the heck their doing and had been doing barrels for a while or at least enough to be competent

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RobertTheTexan · Apr 26, 2018

Ole Cowboy said:
Just wondering...did you have this done POST rifling or as a barrel blank?

Post rifling. The situation is that a guy gave me his CMMG MK3 AR-10 and wanted me to modernize it and lighten it up a little if I could. He had a really heavy bull barrel. PRS stock and a short but weighty hand guard. For the barrel, I didn’t want to re-profile because I didn’t want to risk a drop in accuracy so I had it ball milled. Marvin Pitts did the work. He’s the former barrel Jedi Master from Knights Armament. He’s a true craftsman in his trade. I could easily send back to Marvin, but was hoping to find someone in driving distance to avoid the shipping costs.

I’ll throw a pic up.

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grasshopperglock · Apr 26, 2018

Question, why do you want it bead blasted? It looks fairly satin as machined. I've bead blasted parts before. Glass bead. I think the barrel is gorgeous as is.

RobertTheTexan · Apr 26, 2018

C. Stevens said:
Try and contact metal efx. Jamie I think is the guys name. my uncle has had lots of cerakote and milling alterations to his firearms. All high quality work.

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I’ll call them when I get back to the Republic. Their promo vid looks like they do quality work. Hopefully competitive pricing.

. Thanks for the lead.

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RobertTheTexan · Apr 26, 2018

grasshopperglock said:
Question, why do you want it bead blasted? It looks fairly satin as machined. I've bead blasted parts before. Glass bead. I think the barrel is gorgeous as is.

Deadgummit there you go making sense and all that. Why’d ya have to go and do that? Lol

It does look pretty good. This is really just one option I’m exploring. That said, I think bead blasting it would give it more of a matte finish back on the exposed parts barrel and that would make the dimples stand out a little more. At least that’s my thought....I am also considering cerakote. He also wants me to build him a bolt gun like Brother Kyle’s sniper rifle... so I was thinking to have this AR-10 cerakoted in the same pattern as the bolt gun will be when I get around to doing that.
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xsefan · Nov 6, 2022

I have 120 grit aluminum oxide. . Its fir cerakote. Probably want glass beads for a raw finish. Feric acid will darken the color. Not sure if this is spelled right

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