Cocker - Any thoughts on who made this one?

[Walker]

[maggot]

Man, that's cool. Didn't see too many guns with a matte finish like that back then.

[Alexndl]

Saw it too, never seen this milling but the job look good

Was wondering if its ano or paint

[Walker]

Seller says anodized. Judging from the others he has hanging on the wall, I have no reason to doubt his ability to differentiate between the two.

[Ecapnation]

This one again?

No tell tail signs of larger shops so either small shop or garage bubba'ed

[Walker]

This one again? bubba'ed?

Again? Explain?

Has this one been seen here before?

To me, "bubba'ed" = Hack Job

[Ecapnation]

Yes, it comes up often on Facebook groups every new owner things they struck gold.... St this point it's definitely known who didn't do the milling and Anno.

Generally it's assumed to be a garage cocker

[Walker]

Ahhhh.. Thanks for that info......

I have yet to see a value in any of the social media sites, so I have never bothered to sign up.

"Garage" work, if done well, can come out looking pretty good. There are a lot of people out there that work wonders with a mill, a few who are also interested in paintball. Others never enter the paintball arena.

I've seen some stuff from the named shops that is slick looking, and a lot of stuff that doesn't interest me at all. It is the older equipment that catches my eye.

[Walker]

Paint? Or Anno?

[Tracker]

looks like anodize to me

[Grendel]

Yup, definitely looks like anodizing and the "bare" areas are just areas where no dye got to during the brushing. It will still be anodized just not dyed. Good anodization is non-conductive so you could use a multimeter and measure the resistance across the surface and it should measure open or very high resistance with light pressure. Be sure not to use too firm a pressure or you will poke through to base metal.

[Alexndl]

If you run your nail on it, anodising should feel smooth and uniform since the color is in the anodised layer and paint you should be able to feel the different layer for each color

[Walker]

If that is the case, then the silver and purple on the body are anno, and the black is paint. The body bores are also purple, and exhibit wear like you would expect of anno by the bolt and hammer.

The tank is a different matter. There is no difference between any of the colors, it is all smooth and seamless.

If the black is paint, it was very well done. There are no runs, no sections that are thicker than others, no brush marks, and is uniformly smooth. There is no flaking, and in the few areas that show wear from use it is smoothed, like anno would be. It is also very hard, and resists scraping.

The gun is well used, but not abused...

[DocsMachine]

Now that is interesting. The shark gill slots were made with a wheel style cutter, not an endmill. 95% of slots you see like that, in a garage-shop mill-job, were done with a typical endmill. Those were made with a disc type cutter, presumably on a horizontal arbor- and in my experience, you rarely see that. (Way more home-shop guys have vertical mills rather than horizontals.)

No, that doesn't help ID it, of course, I just thought it was interesting.

Doc.

[Walker]

Thanks for the info Doc!