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wyoold Participating Member Offline Posts: 42 Location: Ranchester, Wy Joined: Nov 14^th, 2016	Re: C Sharps 1885 40-65 Reply #15 - Sep 28^th, 2025 at 11:54pm	Print Post
	C Sharps highwalls - The first highwalls built at C Sharps were built in house by a Mr Weber and a couple of helpers. They were marked Single Shot Inc on the barrel. Some had blued receivers and some case hardened. Shortly after C Sharps bought out Weber. The early guns had Douglas barrels, and are fine shooters. I have 3 of them. wyoold


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Triggerfinger Participating Member Offline Posts: 12 Joined: Oct 13^th, 2024	Re: C Sharps 1885 40-65 Reply #16 - Sep 29^th, 2025 at 8:49am	Print Post
	Are your receivers stamped as C Sharps, Big Timber?


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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 17212 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: C Sharps 1885 40-65 Reply #17 - Sep 29^th, 2025 at 11:01am	Print Post
	Not sure about older C Sharps, but their current rifles are chemically case colored, and the colors they're getting are as nice as bone charcoal case colors. A friend of mine had issues with his Ballard #2 not taking case colors for some odd reason. It got sent to C Sharps to have them chemically color it, and it looks fantastic. Not sure what chemicals they use, but they sure work.

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Triggerfinger Participating Member Offline Posts: 12 Joined: Oct 13^th, 2024	Re: C Sharps 1885 40-65 Reply #18 - Sep 29^th, 2025 at 12:07pm	Print Post
	wyoold wrote on Sep 28^th, 2025 at 11:54pm: C Sharps highwalls - The first highwalls built at C Sharps were built in house by a Mr Weber and a couple of helpers. They were marked Single Shot Inc on the barrel. Some had blued receivers and some case hardened. Shortly after C Sharps bought out Weber. The early guns had Douglas barrels, and are fine shooters. I have 3 of them. wyoold You hit on the mark. Spoke with a very nice gentlemen from C Sharps and he looked up the history of the rifle. It was indeed built by Mr. Weber and should have a badger barrel on it. This would one of two hundred he built on the 1885 receiver. Nice to find that info! Well I don't think I'll be changing anything on the rifle now lol.


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bobw Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1924 Location: NW, Iowa Joined: Mar 19^th, 2013	Re: C Sharps 1885 40-65 Reply #19 - Sep 29^th, 2025 at 1:06pm	Print Post
	marlinguy wrote on Sep 29^th, 2025 at 11:01am: Not sure about older C Sharps, but their current rifles are chemically case colored, and the colors they're getting are as nice as bone charcoal case colors. A friend of mine had issues with his Ballard #2 not taking case colors for some odd reason. It got sent to C Sharps to have them chemically color it, and it looks fantastic. Not sure what chemicals they use, but they sure work. This makes me curious if they have third process, or if this chemical process, is actually the cyanide. I sent an action to Allen Springer last year that he would not do bone and charcoal on. He suggested C Sharps do their cyanide process on it. I agreed and he even delivered it to them. They sent me video’s of them doing my parts and pictures when it was done. The gentleman doing the work said he can get different finishes by the way he quenches the part. Bob

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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 17212 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: C Sharps 1885 40-65 Reply #20 - Sep 29^th, 2025 at 4:10pm	Print Post
	bobw wrote on Sep 29^th, 2025 at 1:06pm: marlinguy wrote on Sep 29^th, 2025 at 11:01am: Not sure about older C Sharps, but their current rifles are chemically case colored, and the colors they're getting are as nice as bone charcoal case colors. A friend of mine had issues with his Ballard #2 not taking case colors for some odd reason. It got sent to C Sharps to have them chemically color it, and it looks fantastic. Not sure what chemicals they use, but they sure work. This makes me curious if they have third process, or if this chemical process, is actually the cyanide. I sent an action to Allen Springer last year that he would not do bone and charcoal on. He suggested C Sharps do their cyanide process on it. I agreed and he even delivered it to them. They sent me video’s of them doing my parts and pictures when it was done. The gentleman doing the work said he can get different finishes by the way he quenches the part. Bob Al was who sent my buddy's Ballard to C Sharps. Al called me to ask if I'd ever heard of a Ballard not taking bone charcoal process and I hadn't. So he sent the parts to C Sharps and they look really close to what Ballard parts look after Al is done.

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