Cerakote color for CZ 75B SA...need opinions.

[coolhandluke]

Planning to hopefully drop off a newly aquired 75B SA this afternoon to be refinished in cerakote. I was originally planning to coat both the slide and frame in graphite black, but I ran across the photo below (photo #1) and am now contemplating going with burnt bronze on the frame. The pistol has a FO front sight and an adjustable Novak rear sight. I will be installing black aluminum grip tape panels, black straight trigger, and a comp hammer from CZ Custom so the pistol would look very similar to a CGW Copperhead package (shown in photo #2).

Thoughts and feedback on the frame color are welcome.

 

[bigred1]

I personally think the graphite black would look excellent with black grips or maybe a set of gray grips. I just can't warm up to the copper/bronze color.

 

[coolhandluke]

Thanks Rocky. This is basically how she would look if I went back with a black frame. I'm not normally a fan of two toned CZ's unless they have a full length dust cover, but I'm kind of digging how that Copperhead looks.

 

[Neanderthal]

I'm digging that burnt bronze!

 

[coolhandluke]

The color of the cerakote on the Copperhead is a custom mixture so burnt bronze won't be an exact match, but it's close enough. I might see if they can darken up the color just a smidge.

 

[rc508pir]

Im with @Neanderthal on the Burnt Bronze.

 

[BrandonM]

80/20 burnt bronze and graphite black.

 

[druryj]

I am also digging the "darker" burnt bronze and black combo. Wonder how it would look if you reversed 'em? "Darker" burnt bronze slide/black frame? But; it's hard to top that copperhead look for that CZ. I almost went that way (B.B./Black) with my SigP229, but decided I liked the Black/Tungsten better...for that pistol. The CZ custom shop has different color slim grips too...one in bronze even

Either way you go its going to look good.

 

[coolhandluke]

The stripped slide and frame have been dropped off with Clint at Black Label Armament. He had a sample of the burnt bronze on hand and it was plenty dark so I left it as-is. The slide will be coated in graphite black and the frame will be burnt bronze.

I already ordered all of the parts from CZ Custom yesterday evening and they shipped today. Aside from the competition hammer and straight trigger with pre-travel and over-travel adjustments, the pistol will also be getting a pre-B series sear so that the firing pin block can be removed. The thin aluminum grip panels are the black version, same as the ones on the CGW pistol above. I made sure to purchase hex screws as well so that I can ditch the ugly OEM phillips screws.

 

[druryj]

Excellent. Clint tell you about a week to coat it? Then what...15-20 minutes to install the new parts...right? With time for a sammich thrown in, of course. It’s gonna look good. It’s tough to top a CZ-75 A (Anything) for aesthetics to start with, plus the overall design and machining of their pistols is nothing less than top shelf. I kick myself every day for letting my duo-tone compact slip away...but I did. Dammit. Purtiest Pistol I ever had. I musta been feverish or delirious is all I can think.


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