Who can remove stamping or lettering from a barrel?

[Yanqui]

I remember sometime back someone mentioned he had lettering removed from the barrel on his Winchester Commemorative. He had a gunsmith do it. I though I'd saved the information but now I can't find it.

So which gunsmith can "professionally" remove stamping or lettering from a barrel?

I have a John Wayne Commemorative barrel that I need to have the John Wayne Commemorative removed.

Or maybe I should say have the lettering filled in with a material that will permanently adhere to the base metal.

[Mikey]

Yanqui:  if you want to cover up some lettering, you can always mix up a batch of bedding compound or epoxy that matches the finish of your rifle barrel and fill in the engraving with that.  It will adhere to the metal,  not 'shoot out' and match the barrel.  HTH.  Mikey.

[Yanqui]

Filling it in with a compound is another idea that a machinist/gunsmith from work brought up. But he told me to contact another guy that has more experience with such things.

I've received a few emails. Now to choice the best one. All have there plus and minuses.

Oh, another option given was live with it. NOPE.

[Sky C.]

Yanqui

It's my understanding that having markings removed from the barrel is something that a gunsmith who is good on a lathe can accomplish.  I've been told that most lettering can be removed with a very light (.010" range) cut that is hardly noticeable.  It does of course require e reblue after the cut.

FWIW-

Sky C.

[MGMorden]

Just out of curiosity, why do you want the commenorative removed?  I've thought about this same problem before, but for rechambers (if I had a gun rechamberd from say .30-30 to .30-40 I'd want the stamp to be corrected).  Just wondering  :-).

[savageT]

I'm not certain how the Allied european nations did it following WWII, but I can guess.....probably by peening out the lettering with a machinist's hammer and then "draw filing" the surface to smooth it out.  As you could expect, rebluing is required.

Jim

[Yanqui]

Just out of curiosity, why do you want the commenorative removed?

I just don't like it. The rifle is not a commemorative and I do not want someone to mistake it as one. It would save someone an embarassing situation at a later date. Besides I only wanted the 32-40 caliber barrel.

[MGMorden]

Just out of curiosity, why do you want the commenorative removed?

I just don't like it. The rifle is not a commemorative and I do not want someone to mistake it as one. It would save someone an embarassing situation at a later date. Besides I only wanted the 32-40 caliber barrel.

Ah.  Gotcha.  I can understand if the barrel and gun weren't originally together.  I thought at first that you had a commemorative rifle and wanted to just erase John Wayne's name from it. Makes more sense to me now  .

[Yanqui]

Maybe I should have been more clear.

I have a Winchester 94 Wrangler in 32 Winchester Special and a Winchester 94 Wrangler II in 38-55 Winchester. They have rolled engraved receivers with western scenes, a 16" barrel and large loop lever. They are really sweet looking. Well, I think so. I thought a Wrangler in 32-40 Winchester would be a nice addition. So I acquired another Wrangler in 32 W.S. I came across a JWC barrel. So now I need to have the JWC lettering removed,  the barrel shortened to 16"and installed. One step at a time.

[doghouse95]

I'm trying to remember if anything is permanently hooked onto the underside of that barrel.
If there isn't, have the smith do a barrel set back and roll the lettering to the bottom, where it will be underneath the forend.
This will leave you clean barrel to have stamped as you wish.

[Mikey]

doghouse95 - on the bottom of the Winchester barrels you may have one or two machine cuts - one will allow the forend stock band screw to pass through the forend stock between the barrel and the magazine tube, and the other is usually either a wedge shaped machine cut that holds a magazine tube retaining screw or a threaded hole that allows the magazine tube to be secured to the barrel by a screw that passes up through the mag tube end plug and is screwed into the barrel.  There may be a 3rd cut as well, and that might be for a barrel band screw.  These can be filled with an epoxy that very closely duplicates the barrel bluing and texture.  HTH.  Mikey.