Cerakote barreled action. Whats the go too?

[BillyGoatGruff]

What's the go too black color?

Going in a manners lrh and the main body is the black carbon fiber look with blue sponge camo.
I think the color is called black and blue.

I think it will look really clean with a black cerakoted barreled action. Problem is there's A LOT of black based colors.
Kinda looking at graphite black and midnight, but I'm open to suggestions. Or even a different color for contrast if it went with the black n blue scheme. Sniper grey? Or similar, But I've not found many good examples of that in my searching

Normally I'd go with a matte black but since this is not necessarily a hunting specific rifle I could go to a more semi gloss if there's a good one.

Thanks for any input
BGG,

 

[wilehunting]

I like graphite black for a nice black black so to speak and it has a satin sheen. You can go on the cerakote site and order swatches to see for yourself what you may like.

 

[BillyGoatGruff]

I like graphite black for a nice black black so to speak and it has a satin sheen. You can go on the cerakote site and order swatches to see for yourself what you may like.

Thanks,
I just found a couple samples from a previous build and I have a sniper grey and a tungsten. The tungsten is darker than I remember and might look pretty good. Sniper grey is basically flat black similar to the graphite

 

[nksmfamjp]

E-100 Elite Blackout is a nice semi-gloss to me!

I came to that one after picking four or five color plates from them and ordering those up to look at in the sun. I think you'll wanna get some color plates and look at them outside if it's important to you how it turns out. My second gun, I just trusted the Gunsmith. It's close enough.

 

[cajun]

I went graphite black.

 

[waspocrew]

Graphite black is what I've used in the past.

 

[JPatzig]

Graphite black seems to be the most common/standard, every time I've talked to a gunsmith, it's what they recommend. I think one of the reasons is because graphite black cerakote is the closest match to nitrided metal. I had a nitrided defiance action and put on a proof carbon barrel, wanting the metal to "match" my action. I was really surprised how close it came out, the color and sheen were really close.

 

[Bill Nieters]

Graphite black seems to be the most common/standard, every time I've talked to a gunsmith, it's what they recommend. I think one of the reasons is because graphite black cerakote is the closest match to nitrided metal. I had a nitrided defiance action and put on a proof carbon barrel, wanting the metal to "match" my action. I was really surprised how close it came out, the color and sheen were really close.

I just cerakoted both ends of a carbonsix barrel with graphite black and it perfectly matched the nitrided action

 

[JAYgs8163]

Graphite Black

 

[ntsqd]

I guess that I'm the oddball at this point (no surprise!), I use Midnite Blue.

 

[BrentM]

What's the go too black color?

Going in a manners lrh and the main body is the black carbon fiber look with blue sponge camo.
I think the color is called black and blue.

I think it will look really clean with a black cerakoted barreled action. Problem is there's A LOT of black based colors.
Kinda looking at graphite black and midnight, but I'm open to suggestions. Or even a different color for contrast if it went with the black n blue scheme. Sniper grey? Or similar, But I've not found many good examples of that in my searching

Normally I'd go with a matte black but since this is not necessarily a hunting specific rifle I could go to a more semi gloss if there's a good one.

Thanks for any input
BGG,

armor black, graphite black.

Sniper gray is nice and I've done several builds with it.

 

[Rick Richard]

Tungsten is a good contrasting color with black.

 

[BillyGoatGruff]

I ordered a few more new swatches in a couple different colors. Leaning towards the tungsten. If it doesn't look good I'm just going to go with the graphite black.
Thanks for the input