Bullpup 2016: Trident Custom Coatings
Trident Custom Coatings is a company out of East Dundee, Illinois that specializes in firearms and some automobile coating jobs, but has recently gotten into customizing Glocks. Specifically the company uses Duracoat, Hydrodipping, Black Oxide, and Nickel Boron for their current coating process.
The company is trying to compete with the likes of Zev Technologies, and Agency Arms when it comes to customizing Glock handguns. This includes such modifications as lightening the slide by a series of cuts, slotting out an RMR placement, stippling the frame, and adding a number of after market accessories such as barrels, triggers, magazine releases, slide releases, and magazine well enlargements. Currently the company has three tiers of product where you can either purchase a Glock from them outright with all the modifications, or you can send yours in to be custom modified according to the tiers of modification.
Their custom coatings are very well done, including the diversity of process of what you want the coating to be, from the choices listed above. From sports team designs to gnarly looking Flying Tiger teeth on CZ 75 Czech Mate competition rigs, Trident Custom does a very good job of getting a complicated design or color scheme onto any type of firearm.
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I saw the these pistols first hand and was not impressed. Stippling was sloppy on the glocks, there was overspray inside the magwell from the cerakote, and the coupe de gras there was a hairline crack in one of the slides as they're milled paper thin. The pricing was all over the place for their packages and none of the representatives from Trident didn't seem to know anything about firearms in general due to asking a few simple questions.
I had a chance to see there stuff at the shoot, while I'm not a big fan of painting guns... I thought they had some really cool stuff. I did get to talk to the owner for a little on some of the stuff they do and we talked about the custom glocks they had on the table. I thought they looked great and for competition use, they were spot on. They invited me out to shoot them and if I can make it out their way I will most definitely run those things to see what they got!
Overall, I thought the entire event was great, not everyday do you get the opportunity to shoot some bad ass guns and also see some new products before they hit stores and catalogues.