Hi Morgan hope your summer is going well! i was wondering how much it would cost for Robar to do a slide colouring like your dads G29 but withougt the cerations because every time I look at the right hand side of my Glock there are quit a few wear spots and they are litarly spots!! Plus a two tone Glock would look cool. Thanks!!

Sid

Sid,

The coloring on the 29 is beautiful, but it is not simply a paint job. Robar uses a special and complecated process to coat the slide with what they call NP3, a tough alloy that protects the metal under it. I don’t know the prices. Robar would be very happy to help you with that.

Almost everyone goes through a phase of gun-ownership when they want all their guns to be perfect in every way. They want all the wood unscratched, they want all the metal sparkling, they want all the polymer pristine. In Martial Arts training I’ve seen this too. This is the phase of wanting to look like Bruce Lee or Steven Segal before a fight.

The next phase is training. Real hard training. In martial training, you get hurt. You get tired. Instead of having long lovely hair, you shave your head. Instead of a clean white shirt, you have blood stains on it. It’s the same with your guns. There is now holster wear on the slide, the wood is knicked from dropping it on the gravel. The polymer is scuffed from the cinder block walls of the kill house. Inside there is some carbonization you just can not get off. You’ve shot it that much.

Once you’ve fought, you don’t care so much about the scratches on your slide. In fact, you learn to love them. Like that bony lump on your rib cage where that punch broke your rib. Like that scar under your eye. Like your unfashionably short hair. You know why they are there.

So, yeah, gun bling is awesome. But save the money you would have spent on that and get some training and buy ammo. Shiny guns don’t shoot better. Clean guns do. It reminds me of an old saying that a good paint job makes a car go faster. A well-cared-for car operates better, and a nice paint job may be an indicator of a conscientious owner, but not always. Sometimes it’s just a nice paint job.

Your Glock’s finish my wear, but the metal itself is treated by a process that makes the surface virtually impenetrable to rust. Don’t worry about your gun. Use it.

Hope this helps,
Morgan

Even a rubber training knife can add character!

Even a rubber training knife can add character!

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