Originally Posted by Draeb
Bumped this for some info...

So can a blued steel be cerakoted without being bead blasted? And if it has to be bead blasted, does the blasting remove all the blueing? And if it removes all the blueing, is the cerakote that much better than the blueing that was blasted off??

Thanks


Bead/sand blasting gives it surface texture for the Cerakote to stick to. If you spray it on a shiny blued rifle it won't stick. You don't have to to get 100% of the bluing off but the bluing that's left will offer no protection to the firearm.

As far as protection goes. Yes, I would think that Cerakote protects metal better than bluing. That said, bluing has been around and protecting firearms for hundreds of years. You can get by without Cerakote if you don't like it.