I am fitting a stainless steel muzzle brake on a stainless barrel that has a rather bright blasted finish. I have tried beads, (two different sizes, one very fine and another somewhat coarser) aluminum oxide, soda, super fine sand, and all I get is varying shades of gray. Yes, it is blasted and NOT cerakote or some other finish.
My question, how do they get the bright, silvery, matte finish?
In the overall scheme of things, I really don't care about the finish per se, except in the context that I would like the brake to match the barrel as much as possible. I suppose I could just blast the barrel with whatever and make it all match that way but it would be quite a bit of extra work so I would like to just do the brake, if possible.