Frame of the gun along with magazine has been redone with CCR's CPII Nickel Boron Nitride finish. Slide is bead blasted. I'm planning to send them a couple more magazines to get this finish on. At least from their web site this looks like a really good way to retard the problem I've had for the last couple of summers with rusting on my carry gun. My Ruger LC9 was the worse.
Here's their description on their web sight:
CPII Plating: http://www.ccrrefinishing.com/information.html
CPII is a true composite plating process. It is an Electroless Nickel / Boron Nitride tank based plating system that incorporates Boron Nitride particles within the matrix of a phosphate system. Benefits include exceptionally low coefficient of friction, superior release and excellent wear resistance. CP II is perfect for applications that require the lubrication of Teflon but need more wear resistance. As wear occurs fresh particles of Boron Nitride are exposed continuing to ensure the lubricating factors though out. CPII also allows longer firing periods between cleaning and makes cleaning of your gun a breeze CPII is a multi facetted plating process that offers outstanding rust and corrosion protection Up to 10 times the protection of other plating such as Nickel/Teflon and Chrome CPII is far from your standard plating it is a true composite plating process that is made possible by the breakthroughs in Nano Technology CPII is also an Eco friendly process. CPII is the color similar to a Bead Blasted Stainless would look CPII will be available for steels. We do not plate anodized alloys.
To probably tell more than I should... I actually bought two pistols two weeks ago... before I bought this one from a fellow member of the Sig Forum ... a while back someone had donated a Sig P230 stainless pistol to the owner of that forum and it was going to be raffled off .... until someone complained and said this was illegal in some states... so the owner backed up and then decided to do an open auction l to members.... Oh and then it was going to this CCR refinishing place to get dressed up before being sent to the 'winners' FFL. I knew there was no way I could afford this pistol for what it should go for... but then on the last night of the bidding I decided to check what it was going for... seemed a little low to me and so I upped the bid a tad.... and went out on the porch to smoke a cigar and have a bourbon .... a while later I came in to go to bed and decided to check again and then up the bid one more time to get the price up. Got up the next morning and to my surprise and bank accounts detriment.... I had actually 'won' the pistol. The first Sig I bought was a used P230 in stainless like this one and I personally think it is the best looking semi-auto ever made. I get in trouble for giving my opinion on Glocks which also in my opinion are ugly compared to one of these:
The Sig P239 came about as close as they could get to one of these... curves is what I'm talking about. Just like a woman, a pistol should have them and not be the shape of a shoe box. Samual Colt knew this too.