Item Gone: FS/FT Gen 4 Glock 17 w/ polished slide

[Slambert008]

Item Name: FS/FT Gen 4 Glock 17 w/ polished slide

Location: Between

Zip Code: 30656

Item is for: Sale or Trade
Sale Price: 550
Trade Value or Items Looking For: Gray vickers, Battlefield green, OD, FDE glock 17,19, 22, 23, or 26

Caliber: 9mm

Willing to Ship: No

Bill of Sale Required?: No

Item Description: I have a gen 4 glock 17. 3 mags, no back straps, but comes with a box. And truglo nite sites, and extended mag release. Gun is in great shape, just wanting a colored glock. I'd put it at less than 50rds down the pipe.

Can add a little cash if I'm really interested in what you have.

Pictures:

 

[Slambert008]

im kinda getting the polished fever, someone trade this guy a colored glock so i don't do it !

Yes, someone trade me so BobcatMan doesn't have to!

 

[iPac a glock]

Thanks for all the info! I actually like the look, in fact Im about to do my worn out g22 slide. Hopefully it turns out as nice as this one. GLWT And God bless

 

[CZ Fan]

Who did the work?

 

[Mark IV]

Tennifer is a treatment, not a coating. Polish a Glock slide and unless you remove SERIOUS metal it will still be treated with Tennifer and will not rust.
I carried one IWB all summer a couple of years ago, never did anything to protect it and never saw a single spec of rust.

The OP's Glock is a gen 4, so it was highly unlikely to have been given a real Tenifer treatment. They stopped using actual Tenifer in early 2010, just before the gen4's starting coming out. On all these newer pistols they replaced the Tenifer finish with a similar treatment, that has been getting bad reviews and generating complaints for years now, because it has been shown to quickly wear down and yes, even rust (I've been a fan of the earlier treatment for years now, so I've done a bit of digging around on the subject).
With the earlier genuine Tenifer treatment, the slides were immersed in a liquid-salt bath, in these later ones, the nitrocarburizing is applied with a gas, and it has been shown to be FAR less resistant to both abrasion, and rust. There is no shortage of corroborating evidence of this, for those with even a modicum of Google-Fu.
Your isolated, anecdotal account of a non-rusting Glock hardly proves that all Glocks don't and can't rust. I would bet yours pre-dated early 2010, and had the earlier glossy, teflon-looking finish over the Tenifer(which IS highly rust resistant, just not necessarilly rust proof.)
Also, you do NOT have to remove "serious" metal to get past the surface-applied Tenifer treatment, it only goes a few microns deep (a VERY small amount, it ain't like it's 1/4" deep), and there have been cases reported where heavier abrasions, through normal use, have worn through the Tenifer, and caused rust spots. Given that nobody, including the OP, truly knows anything about how much "polishing" the original owner did, or how he did it, no one can be sure the underlying treatment wasn't affected. That's not an opinion, that's a fact.
And even if he did just lightly polish off the outer, surface application, being a gen4, the metal treatment underneath still isn't the original Tenifer treatment, it's the newer less resilient one, which is why I guessed it was at least possible that the original owner did it because of some surface rust.
That is all.

 

[Slambert008]

Who did the work?

@GOAT did the work

 

[NWSharpshooter]

Shazam Shazam shazam......

 

[ARCman47]

In

 

[Mr. Goodbar]

Bling bling

 

[Slambert008]

Bling bling

Get yourself some serious street cred with this pimped G17!

 

[Mr. Goodbar]

Get yourself some serious street cred with this pimped G17!

I don't need no street cred