What would you do with this Kimber?

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This is an old Kimber Ultra Carry , not a Carry II. It's got a lot of carry wear and light pitting on the slide. Since I have so little in it I am thinking of experimenting with a coating. What coating and color scheme would be good for this gun? Anyone know a good place to send it to have the work done? I've replaced the rubber grips with Crimson Trace laser grips, pictured separately.

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I like the wear also, if it was my gun and I wanted to change things up a little I’d just Cerakote the slide, do a nice set of micarta grips and leave the frame alone to show the character of actually being used. I’ve sent a couple things to Mad Custom Coating for some Cerakote and they do some pretty wild patterns and colors. www.madcustomcoating.com


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Depends on the intended use of the gun. If you are planning to carry it I wouldn’t do a thing to it.
 

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Depends on the intended use of the gun. If you are planning to carry it I wouldn’t do a thing to it.

I doubt I'll carry it. I do like the wear on it but am thinking this would be a fun gun to experiment with some kind of crazy cool coating and color scheme.
 

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I had the same pitting and wear on my M&P 9. I scuffed it and shot it with a gunmetal ceracoat and it looked just like new when it was complete. There are dozens of ceracoat colors out there and it is really easy to do.
 
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This is an old Kimber Ultra Carry , not a Carry II. It's got a lot of carry wear and light pitting on the slide. Since I have so little in it I am thinking of experimenting with a coating. What coating and color scheme would be good for this gun? Anyone know a good place to send it to have the work done? I've replaced the rubber grips with Crimson Trace laser grips, pictured separately.

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I EDC this in stainless steel. Great gun.
 

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