Thank you Joe that was very well stated. I'm a traditionalist and much prefer color case harding where it was the original treatment. But hey if a guy wants to paint his gun in gold metalflake I don't care. Its his gun and he will have to live with the end result.

I am waiting for a trained metalurgist, preferably one with a Doctorate in the field to show up on this board and tell us exactly why 4140 etc should not be color cased.

Doug Mann