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    Question about anno

    Not 'tech' per se, but I'm hoping for some informed input.

    I notice that some guns when anno'd gloss, all the angles and edges tend to look more round/dulled and dust guns tend to look a bit 'crisper' . Even in the same gun.

    I had thought anodizing didn't really add appreciable thickness to surface? If you were to reanno a gloss gun in a dust finish would it still retain that rounded look on the edges? pics for reference.

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    Generally that is due to the pre-prep of the surface before. Both processes are there to remove tooling marks.

    To do that the 'dust' surface the raw part is sand-blasted. This doesn't remove much material. It is even.

    To polish requires, normally, a person to run it under a buffing wheel with a polishing compound long enough to remove the tooling marks. Due to the shape of the polishing wheel and related action they need to remove more material to get a surface that doesn't have tooling marks.

    Sharp edges get lost in the polishing process, whereas they normally are retained in the dust process.

    The anodizing to an extent does far less to affect those details.
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    darn, that was my suspicion but good to have someone who knows confirm it.

    Thanks Josh. shame.
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    If you strip the polished an and do a dusted an it will still be rounded the corners have already been rounded by the polisher the sand blasting won't get the sharpness back

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