If it were me, I would send it to AETI or another reputable place and have them nitride it. I personally would not put cerakote on a barrel

 

Thank you for the suggestion.

I just received an update from FDEZ WERX that they further recommend against cerakoting a barrel. Not only will it wear immediately but can also cause cycling issues.

 

Don't think Cerakote will hold up well on a barrel.

 

Personally, Anything not external, I wouldnt cerakote. Barrels, Internals, Bolt carrier groups, I feel even a hammer would be iffy.

 

As others have said, nope. It doesn't hold up for beans. I've even had a barrels coated with their Micro Slick which is meant for that, didn't last long at all.
On the other hand I have a lot of barrels DLC coated and they are great. I have a couple that I think they called rose (PVD of some sort) maybe kind of burnt bronze.

 

Boom! Love that burnt bronze barrel! Who did that?

 

I wish I knew. I have a few of these done by STI before they changed to Staccato and started doing their own coating. Maybe Taran Tactical knows because my Combat Maters have the same barrel finish.

 

That rose/burnt bronze is very nice!

 

You're going to Cerakote the barrel? Cerakote will wear with abrasion, and it adds to the barrel dimensionally, which could affect function.
Personally, I think prettying a poly pistol is putting lipstick on a pig; YMMV.
BTW, hardchrome is wonderfully wear resistant, but you might still get some scuffs.
Moon

 

I recently had the barrel and slide of my LCPII Cerakoted Graphite Black. It came out a nice flat, matte black. I've shot that and it had no negative impact on reliability. I then had an older blued 1911A1 from Auto Ordnance Cerakoted with the same Graphite Black. I asked that the inside of the slide not be coated. I did not have that barrel coated. When I got it back, the inside of the slide and frame had been coated. The barrel bushing was very hard to put in the slide. When I went to shoot that it was behaving sluggish and I had some failures to feed. I polished the feed ramp (again), greased it up, and replaced the 16 lb recoil spring with an 18 lb one. I worked the action at home and shot a box of shells thru it. The coating wore off where it needed to and the pistol is once again shooting reliably. This 1911A1 was put together like a lot of GI pistols were with a little slide rattle so there was room for a little more material. I wish they hadn't coated the metal to metal surfaces but it wasn't a big deal for this pistol. I would not have my Sig 1911 Nightmare Cerakoted as the tolerances are just too tight and there is no need with the finish that Sig put on it. My older Auto Ordnance 1911 was looking kinda rough. Now it looks pretty good.

 

BAD bad idea and waste of money .. if you ask me ..
Just polish it to SS by yourself .. looks way better !!

 

Here's my LCPII. This gets carried quite a bit and the bluing was wearing. I'm betting the Cerakoke will last longer than the factory bluing did.