dlilazteca
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I know there is more than one way to skin a cat, so if you can elaborate on this topic well then it might become a sticky, so let's contribute here.
I had a Client not pay the amount due, now that beside the point and I'm not going to make it about that, i had a firearm with gold Inlayed lettering, you guys know how hard it is to do good lettering, but no one will want a firearm with someone else's name. So here comes the Repair part.
This is the initial picture.
I removed the gold inlays, broke my heart, with a flat, as you do this and if done right, it should be hard to take it out, and when you do there should be gold teeth still embeded in the steel, now those cannot stay in there and must be removed 100 percent. So I used a high speed burr to remove all the gold and outline i had cut along the border of the gold.
Next came the micro tig welding, now I'm no expert in tig welding, but i know you need a welder that had lower stable current, and to my understanding not all do, your millage may vary, and settings will vary from machine to machine. After the filler material was used, here on a stainless colt slide, 416 filler was used.
After it was micro tig welded, i used my knife grinder to make everything nice and to its original shape. Here is the final picture, ready to be engraved and sold.
Sorry i forgot to take more pictures, but this is just the gist of it.
I know the ideal thing is to know the host material but that is what i had on hand, as you can see there is no Color difference and you cant tell there was ever a trace of engraving.
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I had a Client not pay the amount due, now that beside the point and I'm not going to make it about that, i had a firearm with gold Inlayed lettering, you guys know how hard it is to do good lettering, but no one will want a firearm with someone else's name. So here comes the Repair part.
This is the initial picture.
I removed the gold inlays, broke my heart, with a flat, as you do this and if done right, it should be hard to take it out, and when you do there should be gold teeth still embeded in the steel, now those cannot stay in there and must be removed 100 percent. So I used a high speed burr to remove all the gold and outline i had cut along the border of the gold.
Next came the micro tig welding, now I'm no expert in tig welding, but i know you need a welder that had lower stable current, and to my understanding not all do, your millage may vary, and settings will vary from machine to machine. After the filler material was used, here on a stainless colt slide, 416 filler was used.
After it was micro tig welded, i used my knife grinder to make everything nice and to its original shape. Here is the final picture, ready to be engraved and sold.
Sorry i forgot to take more pictures, but this is just the gist of it.
I know the ideal thing is to know the host material but that is what i had on hand, as you can see there is no Color difference and you cant tell there was ever a trace of engraving.
Sent from my SM-N930T using Tapatalk
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not a fun job I know. J.J.
