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The "black chrome" finish on the SKB's is not shiny,but a soft velvet type finish which is incredibly durable.I bought two of them NIB in the mid seventies and am still shooting them.They both have had chamber, forcing cone, and choke alterations and have digested a huge number of all manner of loads both lead and steel, over the years. The barrels of both guns on the exterior are unmarked and look as new, in spite of heavy use in salt marshes, punts, etc.
An absolutely marvelous finish. One of them accounted for several
Canada geese a week ago, two black brant yesterday, and a snow goose this morning. Wonderful guns.


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Ted,

I have two SKB's A 20ga ithaca model 100 with black chrome. It has held up well except where my sweaty and oil Italy hands carried it all those years. I bought it it new over 35 years ago. The black chrome was a part of the advertisement Ithaca used back them. Also chromed inside too.

I also have a 385 28 ga. A very unique gun. It is built on the 20 ga frame. It has a nice beavertail, and vent rib. Because of the frame size it weights over 7 1/2 lbs. Might sound wierd, but is is one hell of a target side by side. If has only 26' barrels, but it still swings nice and shots like a dream.

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Originally Posted By: Ted Schefelbein
Could be, Larry. But, I'll hold off judgement until I see it-have only handled the later, blued guns. The Uggies of the era were advertised as having "Black Chrome" barrels, when, in fact, they were fully brazed and hot blued. Nothing wrong with that, but, it is inaccurate.
I actually own a gun with true black chrome applied, and know of another-a Remington 241 my Father had done in the early 1960s. It is off-the-hook shiney. Ditto a Remington 700 with one of the early stainless barrels.
Too shiney, both examples.

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Ted, if you've handled many of the Ithaca imports--and there's no shortage of them out there, especially when you include the OU's--then you've certainly handled guns with a black chrome finish without realizing it. Not shiny at all, as Terry indicated. If you look at one of the Ithaca imports and compare it to either an Uggie or one of the later SKB 385/485 guns, or a current SKB OU, you'll see the difference immediately.

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Terry, I bought my two NIB in the mid-70s. Sounds like they appeared same time coast to coast!

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A lightly used 200E resides here.

I have a difficult time believing the barrel finish is plated, electro or otherwise.

I've always thought this was a heat cured coating.

If it's a plating process, it's difficult to imagine why it hasn't had wider use.

As reported, it's an excellent finish. The only thing I can compare it to is something called "Brunition" by Beretta. They used that on target 682's in the 80's and it's just as durable and easy to maintain as can be.

Any idea why Beretta stopped using that, or why others haven't used the Ithaca/SKB process? It beats the hell out of traditional blue in many ways.


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Like Larry says, true electro plating leaves a mess. There are a bunch of heavy metals that need to be dealt with in the strike tanks. Yes, it may say in the SKB sales material the finish is "Black Chrome" but, I'm always suspicious of sales material, less so of an engineering report or tests.
The SKBs I've handled were blued. I will say I'm not terribly interested in far eastern manufactured guns, and haven't spent much time seeking them out.

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