Engraving a Henry Golden Boy???

[outside9]

I just had my first grand child, a boy and I want to buy him a 22 rifle. I was looking at the youth model Golden Boy and was wondering can you have one of these engraved with a name etc.? If so, can anyone recommend someone who does quality work engraving?

Thanks

 

[dead-bird]

Good idea, however they are only plated, not solid brass.
Don't know how thick the plating is.

 

[Calculated steps]

Have you thought of laser ingraving.

 

[NWFLYJ]

Good idea, however they are only plated, not solid brass.
Don't know how thick the plating is.

^ +1

The plating is very thin. I have one that the plating started to peel off of like a cheap 1970's chrome bumper plating job.. Laser would work in my opinion.

 

[SpotNTails]

Engraving is actually an option straight from Henry. See the link below;

http://www.henryrepeating.com/rifle-goldenboy-personalized.cfm

 

[flyandscuba]

Yep - best to get the manufacturer to do it. I have an Eagle Scout Henry in 22 WMR -- a beautiful rifle....and 100% made in America!

 

[ksenter]

Im not so sure the Plating is correct. I'm fairly certain that the receivers are made from a brass alloy all the way through, not plated.

 

[donr101395]

Im not so sure the Plating is correct. I'm fairly certain that the receivers are made from a brass alloy all the way through, not plated.

The Big Boy receivers are brass. The Golden Boy brass is a brasslite cover plate.

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[ksenter]

well my goldenboy doesnt appear to be. I've had it broken down all the way to do an inspection and cleaning and it appeared the same inside as it did outside. I still could be wrong, but mine didnt appear to be plated.

 

[donr101395]

This is right from the Henry website. If you go over to the henry rifle forum they have some pretty good explanation of brasslite.


The Golden Boy rifle's awesome 20-inch blued octagonal barrel, American walnut stock, brass buttplate and gleaming Brasslite receiver will transport you back to the wild and wooley days of America's Old West, when our company founder Benjamin Tyler Henry designed the original Henry lever action rifle.




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[dead-bird]

Brasslite is a receiver cover. Not receiver material.
If you have Henery engrave your golden boy, that's the part they engrave, not the receiver itself.
You, to quote Henery,
"Install the new Personalized Receiver cover yourself"

 

[donr101395]

Brasslite is a receiver cover. Not receiver material.
If you have Henery engrave your golden boy, that's the part they engrave, not the receiver itself.
You, to quote Henery,
"Install the new Personalized Receiver cover yourself"

And the exterior you see on the golden boy isn't the receiver. It is the cover. The actual receiver is under the cover and made from zinc alloy.

Here is a video disassembly. That shows what I'm talking about. The reason you can order the engraved part direct to replace your standard part is because it's not the serialized part of the gun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cchZUA_CTro&feature=youtube_gdata_player

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[ksenter]

exactly. So the receiver is the unit that houses the firing mechanism, but the "cover" is not just plated but a thick cover. So by engraving the cover, you do more than just remove plating, you engrave the metal.

 

[donr101395]

exactly. So the receiver is the unit that houses the firing mechanism, but the "cover" is not just plated but a thick cover. So by engraving the cover, you do more than just remove plating, you engrave the metal.

It's not a solid brass cover. It is a plated alloy cover. Just because it's the same brass color inside and out doesn't mean it's solid.

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[TraderDan]

Well thats a bummer.

 

[ksenter]

well you seem to be more confident than I, so I guess I learn something new everyday. haha

 

[donr101395]

well you seem to be more confident than I, so I guess I learn something new everyday. haha

The only reason I'm confident is because quite a few people on the Henry rifle forum have said they stripped the plating and then polished it to look like chrome.
At the same time there are people saying some of have been produced with the color all the way through the alloy, but they aren't sure what the makeup of the a
alloy is made up from.

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[ksenter]

not arguing with you. Just saying I learned something new today, yesterday, or the day before, whenever I realized something new, haha.

 

[outside9]

Engraving is actually an option straight from Henry. See the link below;

http://www.henryrepeating.com/rifle-goldenboy-personalized.cfm

Thanks, I never saw that before.

 

[outside9]

http://henryrepeating.com/rifle-goldenboy-youth.cfm

I bought a new Golden Boy Youth with octagon barrel today at Jimmy's in Ft. Walton Beach. Man, it is a sharp looking gun.