Full Size Witness 45 acp

kc5gxc

July 27, 2013 17:18

I bought the Witness on GunBroker. It looks like stainless steel, but I read that it's the wonder finish on this pistol.
It has some scratches on the frame. Can I buff or polish this frame whthout screwing up the "wonder finish" ?
I don't know how deep this finish is...sure looks like stainless.
Thanks, Pete

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  beantownshootah

  July 28, 2013 11:58

  So far as I know, Witness was never made in Stainless.
  
  The "wonder finish" is a nitride-based finish, similar to the glock "Tenifer", the Smith and Wesson/Walther "Melonite", the Sig Nitron, etc.
  
  The difference is that those guns have a blackened parkerized/phosphate finish OVER the nitride one, where as the Witness is just nitrided steel.
  
  The actual finish is probably super-duper thin so any visible scratch probably went through the finish. The finish itself is going to be super hard, and resistant to polishing.
  
  In short, no, I don't think you can just buff out the scratches easily or without hurting the remaining finish.

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  cpermd

  July 28, 2013 15:34

  quote:Originally posted by kc5gxc
  I bought the Witness on GunBroker. It looks like stainless steel, but I read that it's the wonder finish on this pistol.
  It has some scratches on the frame. Can I buff or polish this frame whthout screwing up the "wonder finish" ?
  
  
  
  No

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  kc5gxc

  July 28, 2013 17:02

  Thanks
  I appreciate the info on this finish.
  Pete

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  TooBig

  July 29, 2013 04:22

  It will still shot very nice[:D][:p][^]

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