STI Spartan or EAA Witness Elite Match instead of CZ?

[Walt Sherrill]

I don't think the Stock II has wonder finish, though I see it is advertised as such. Could be wrong and occasionally am!

As noted above, citing information from the EAA website, Wonder finish isn't really a finish, and it's not hard chrome -- it's a surface hardening treatment which wouldn't make the colored surface hard to remove. The colored part of a Wonder finish hardened surface should come off just as you describe. Working on the metal itself, cutting or milling, would be a bit harder to do.

 

[greyling22]

I'd take anything off the EAA website with some salt. I'm not sure the web guy writing copy has ever actually seen or handled what he's actually putting up on the site. Maybe it's an issue of just being an importer and not a manufacturer, or a language barrier issue, but the web specs and details to not always match up, and the picture does not always match to what is currently being shipped. (or at least a year ago that was the case. something could have improved. CS has. some.)

 

[Walt Sherrill]

I'd take anything off the EAA website with some salt.

Would you suggest that we, instead, consider psuedonymous "experts" who they say they "think" the finish is hard chrome or something similar to be more credible? EAA's Customer Service folks also say what Wonder finish is a surface hardening treatment. While I know EAA's service has had a bad reputation for years, that doesn't mean that everything their people say or that is shown on their website is automatically false or less credible than opinions on the web...

More to the point, I've had Wonder-finished Witnesses and other hard-chromed guns -- and the EAA Wonder finish is NOTHING like hard chrome or any other plated finish I've seen or owned. You only need to see and handle both to understand the differences.


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