CZ polycoat finish

[gym]

Is it shiny or dull? I can't tell from these websites, some show the gun in a high gloss, while others claiming to be the same finish, appear to be flat or matt. I would like to know before ordering one and finding out I didn't like the look of it.
I have read everything there is to read on the CZ forum and their website, and it still is rather vague. Some say t's a high gloss while others say it's not. I know there are, or at least were different finishes available on the gun. I just don't know what they consider shiny and what they don't. If anyone has a recent P-01 or 02, please let me know, a picture would help, thanks .
The compact supposedly is the same finish, and I handled a used one in town that was a flat black color, but it was an older gun, and scratched up.

 

[The Lone Haranguer]

My 2007 D Compact PCR:



My photography isn't very good, but I would characterize the finish as more to the flat black or dull end of the spectrum, with just a slight sheen to it.

 

[5-SHOTS]

I would characterize the finish as more to the flat black or dull end of the spectrum, with just a slight sheen to it.

I can't explain it better.

Other finishes are available from CZ and that includes a high gloss finish (which is a basically a type of blueing, I guess). I've seen it applied to CZ 75B, 85B, 75B Compact and 97B. There's a member here who has recently posted a tread of his last purchases: a 97B polycoated and a 97B glossy; here you are: http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=735003&highlight=cz+97.

I post a pic of my father's P-01.

 

[Mastodon]

Here is a photo I just took out of my holster. This is the 75 D Compact (PCR).

I would not describe the polycoat as shiny. Anything labelled shiny is likely going to be blued, which these are not.

The polycoat is more flat black. Not totally on the dull side of things, but not shiny blued. Definitely durable and quality, the polycoat.

Maybe this helps a bit more?

 

[armoredman]

It's a flat finish, seen here in the slide units of an SP-01 Phantom and the brand new P-09.

 

[Walt Sherrill]

Over the years, CZ's Polycoat finish has changed -- if not in appearance, then in durability. It's now one of the more durable, damage-resistant finishes. Polycoat is applied over the top of a manganese phosphate finish.

Most auto body touch-up paints in matte black are an almost-perfect match, but Dupli-Color, if you can find, seems to be a perfect match.

If you have a tiny scratch to fix, use the paint that comes in the spray can, because it's thinner and can be applied with a model brush very precisely. Spray a small amount onto aluminum foil and then use a fine brush to apply the paint. (I don't know what thinner should be used with touch-up paint, or I'd say just get the small applicator bottles... and thin a small amount.)

 

[gym]

Thanks
for the pics and explanations.

 

[chris in va]

The slide and frame is poly coated but the metal hardware such as slide release, mag release, sights etc is blued or some other shiny black coating.

 

[gator-1]

I heard somewhere that the flat black spray paint you use on your charcoal grill matches up well although I have not tried this

 

[JohnBT]

I have one of the made-in-'96 Turkish contract military models with polycoat. The finish is shinier if you don't spray it with gunscrubber. Even if you do a drop of oil on a patch will bring it back.

I first noticed this when some gunscrubber ran down the ouside of gun and left a dull track.

 

[Walt Sherrill]

My first CZ was a Turkish contract CZ, like yours. (Got it at a gunshow in town, and they had it mispriced; I got it for their cost. As they were doing the paperwork, they noticed their error, but let it go at that price.) That earlier version of polycoat is less durable than the current version. Any kind of solvent that attacks plastic will dull the finish.

We (I was a senior staff member on the CZ Forum, at the time) warned folks to take the grip off and try anything NEW on the gun on the metal under the grips -- so that if there is finish damage, it won't show. That's still good advice for the older polycoat guns, but seems to be unneeded for guns being sold, now.

 

[JDGray]

Testors Flat Black makes a good gouge filler, touch up paint.

 

[Chief Sapulpa]

I would describe it as a satin finish; shinier than matte/flat and duller than semi-gloss.

 

[astra600]

The Lone H's pic looks just like my 75 pre B, sort of eggshell flat, I had the option of semi-gloss, but figured it is a battle gun (Evil Empire) and went with the plain finish. I'm very happy with the work.

 

[Walt Sherrill]

The Lone H's pic looks just like my 75 pre B, sort of eggshell flat, I had the option of semi-gloss, but figured it is a battle gun (Evil Empire) and went with the plain finish. I'm very happy with the work.

My first pre-B CZ-75 had a sweet DA/SA trigger that just FORCED me to get it at a local gunshop; I traded a Manhurin-made [WWII] P-38 for it, even. The P-38 looked great but was a crappy shooter. I think both parties of that trade thought they had put one over on the other party. That was an early CZ-75 -- not a short rail, but one without the half-cock notch on the hammer -- had something other than polycoat -- it was a kind of enamel finish that flaked or chipped in a heavy wind.

Re: Battle Gun. The Communist Bloc military didn't use 9x19 round, and as best I can tell, no Communist military units ever used CZ-75s, although a few CZs may have been used by Soviet Special Ops (Spetsnaz) personnel. Quite a few years later the Czech National Police began using what became the PCR. (PCR supposedly means "Police of the Czech Republic"). The original CZ-75 was apparently designed for sales to civilians in Western markets, hence the 9mm round, but the Western embargo of Communist products kept them out of most countries. (West Germany and Canada were about the only places you could get them.)

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