Well I thought I might post my situation on my own thread. Seems the question of anodizing comes up often enough. This may help some people here.
I've had my tequila fade emag for a few years now. It is a factory high gloss yellow/gold to orange fade. Not a typical Emag. It looked super with a nickel ULE body on it, but I want to give it a new look. As you many know DW Karta bodies are smoke'n hot. I was able to purchase one from Cleansweep right here on AO used. I really wanted the karta to fade like the rest of the gun, but I didn't want to redo the factory anodizing. I called Colin at DW to ask him advice of were to send it. He gave me 2 suggestion. PK Selectives and A+. Looking into both of them I found PK was more expensive than I thought it should cost. A+ seem reasonable enough. After contacting them and telling them what I had, I felt confident they can do this job for me. Well they did the job and got it back to me in 13 days. I was very happy with the turn around time being even better than quoted. All seemed well until I opened the package. The anno wasn't close at all. Over the phone they said it was extremely close, but the final product wasn't even the same color. Looked like a copper pipe to me. There was blemishes and traces of black that didn't stripe. I was looking at it today and I supposed if the whole marker was this new color it might be ok, but I like the original color way better. I wouldn't send anything to A+ for them to to match anodize something ever again nor would I send anything to them because the quality didn't seem all that. So what was I supposed to do now? Well like a dummy I should've called AGD from the get go. I got answers with in minutes. These colorful Emags and Xmags where done at PK Selectives I'm told. Because I tried to skate off cheaper I will end up having the most expensive karta ever! I currently have the cost of a used emag into it and by the time it is done maybe the cost of a new emag!
I sent the stuff off to PK today. I should have it back in a few weeks. A+ emailed me stating, "it's as close as it will ever get". I hope I'm correct in thinking close only counts in horseshoes, handgrenades, and nuclear warfare. If this all turns out. I'll do my best at posting pics. I'm shooting for MOTM when everything is done sometime this year.
I've had my tequila fade emag for a few years now. It is a factory high gloss yellow/gold to orange fade. Not a typical Emag. It looked super with a nickel ULE body on it, but I want to give it a new look. As you many know DW Karta bodies are smoke'n hot. I was able to purchase one from Cleansweep right here on AO used. I really wanted the karta to fade like the rest of the gun, but I didn't want to redo the factory anodizing. I called Colin at DW to ask him advice of were to send it. He gave me 2 suggestion. PK Selectives and A+. Looking into both of them I found PK was more expensive than I thought it should cost. A+ seem reasonable enough. After contacting them and telling them what I had, I felt confident they can do this job for me. Well they did the job and got it back to me in 13 days. I was very happy with the turn around time being even better than quoted. All seemed well until I opened the package. The anno wasn't close at all. Over the phone they said it was extremely close, but the final product wasn't even the same color. Looked like a copper pipe to me. There was blemishes and traces of black that didn't stripe. I was looking at it today and I supposed if the whole marker was this new color it might be ok, but I like the original color way better. I wouldn't send anything to A+ for them to to match anodize something ever again nor would I send anything to them because the quality didn't seem all that. So what was I supposed to do now? Well like a dummy I should've called AGD from the get go. I got answers with in minutes. These colorful Emags and Xmags where done at PK Selectives I'm told. Because I tried to skate off cheaper I will end up having the most expensive karta ever! I currently have the cost of a used emag into it and by the time it is done maybe the cost of a new emag!
I sent the stuff off to PK today. I should have it back in a few weeks. A+ emailed me stating, "it's as close as it will ever get". I hope I'm correct in thinking close only counts in horseshoes, handgrenades, and nuclear warfare. If this all turns out. I'll do my best at posting pics. I'm shooting for MOTM when everything is done sometime this year.
once you get it back i wanna see pix... its goona look sweet...
Here she is currently:
They sure didn't produce anything close to what they had pictured or the parts I sent them for examples. Honestly your pinkish anno was closer to what you wanted than how mine turned out. Yes they did call to confirm it was done and I had no problem with communications with them. I didn't however have offers to redo the botch job like you had. Their attitude was it was close enough and live with it. My attitude is they can rot in the place of fire and brimstone. They will never get my business ever again. Some of the private emails I have recieved confirms, "I'm not the only one".
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