Customer Reviews

Birchwood Casey® Super Black™ Touch - up Pen Flat

5 star:		(6)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

This touch up works great! the flat black works well for scratches and places where anodizing or bluing has worn off. I rubbed my finger over the part I had painted when it had dried and you can barely tell where I painted it.

First let me state the purpose of my purchase. I needed to touch up the finish on my Sig P229 slide. It has a dark grey nitron finish and I was hoping to cover some scratches. This paint is truly flat, but in my opinion not suitable for guns. It is pure black, therefore can't completely blend with a grey finished guns. The gun begins to look like a toy and you can tell right away where the fixed spot is. Another issue is that this paint wears off very easily. I would consider using it only on surfaces that will not be touched later on. I degreased the slide with alcohol, then applied thin layer of paint, let it dry for couple of hours. Yet the paint was wearing off by GENTLY rubbing the slide with my fingers.
So my conclusion is: this product is not suitable for touching up guns as a long term solution. You can use it on something you're planning to put on a shelf and just look at it.

Don't like this item. It doesn't blend in scratches rather covers them up. Problem with that is once applied the ink can't be wiped to smooth out, causing an unlevel spot on the gun. If ink is wiped it comes completely off or roughens. Better off using a Sharpie.

Excellent for firearm scratch touch-up. Must be sure to clean all gun oil from barrel. Very opaque. I noticed no variation in the anti-reflective factory coating after application. I would highly recommend this product.

The pen does cover well and matches the matt black finish on 'tactical' weapons. It does, however, rub off easily which makes the product all but useless.

Bought this touch up pen for my SKS. It had several rough looking areas that were irritating me. I decided to use this on them, and it worked great. It was a quick fix, the main problem I find with quick fixes is that they do not hold up too well in the long run, I hope this will surprise me. As the overall finish goes it is very flat as described, and in my case was a good thing since the original finish on my SKS is a flat black. Now those rough marks are not so rough anymore. The only way you can tell were they were is by looking closely with light at an angle. Over all a great product!

I bought this touch up pen for some nicks on one of my Sigma lenses, and it's a solid match with that finish. I also figured I'd get some more use of of this by touching up my eyeglasses, which have a black paint baked on titanium. The original eyeglass finish was more of a semi-gloss, so it could never be a direct match (this pen is rather flat), but it was better than unpainted titanium. Alas it wasn't that durable in this use, and the touch up paint comes off quite easily. The upside of this was it was easy to get back to where I started, but still not a success. The nicks on my lens has held up better, but they weren't on such a challenging location. Since the pen did the trick for what I bought it for, I guess it's still worth four stars.

I used this product on my Trek Soho road bike. My bike has a flat black finish, so I thought this pen would be perfect for some of the scratches on the finish. The pen by itself wasn't enough. In fact, it looked worse after I did the initial touchup because the pen's black was an obviously different shade from my bike's black finish. But at the advice of my friend, I applied a product called FastWax to smooth everything out... and that did the trick! The visibility of the scratches were minimized. It's not perfect, but it's definitely a big improvement. The pen did a good job in "re-coloring" the scratches with black, and the wax brought it all together so that it wasn't two different shades anymore. I give this product three stars because, by itself, it wasn't enough to do the job; however, it was still in an integral part of it. When used in conjunction with the wax, it worked well for me.

These touch up pens are great. I found more uses than I actually purchased it for!

THERE I WAS CRYING LIKE A LITTLE GIRL WHEN I DROPPED MY $ 6000.00 CUSTOM REMINGTON R-25 ON THE CONCRETE "AGAIN". NOW ITS ALL SCRATCHED UP! BUT WAIT I ORDERED A TOUCH UP PEN!! YEAHHH! NOW IT LOOKS LIKE NEW! THANK YOU BIRCHWOOD CASEY!