Removing/Covering Barrel Engraving

[Rackmastr]

Hey Guys,
Bought a Rem semi-auto .270 from a guy a few years back and he had his name and his old FAC # engraved in the barrell. I have the bill of sale and the paperwork on the gun is all good, but now I'm lookin at selling it.
He didnt mind selling it to me with his name/number on it, but I want it gone for the next sale. Not sure how to go about this. The engraving is close to the action on the top of the barrell and does not seem to be super-deep. Can this be fixed? What should I be looking at doing? Obviously a 'smith will have to fix this but I'm just not sure what would be the best cure for it.
Any suggestions?

 

[Urban]

 

[Ripstop]

I bought an old Rem. 742 that was like that. I used a stone to reasonably smoothen it out and then reblued the area. Looks like crap but it looked like crap before.

 

[maple_leaf_eh]

Anything you do will leave a mark. But ... any marks you remove is better.

The classic solution is to polish it off with a cloth wheel and jeweller's rouge, essentially a fine but sightly oily abrasive. The pros would have a standup wheel and plenty of patience. This is the technique used by makers to take off the tool marks left at the plant.

My second choice would be a vise, a hand drill and a cloth wheel and even more patience. You'll still need to reblue, but the result will be infinately better than reading some guy's stupidity everytime.

 

[Slash5]

I would think a sharp cut like engraving would require some draw filing to remove - don't think polish will take it out.

 

[agit-prop]

I would think that peening it out with a drift would be the best option.

 

[tiriaq]

You don't say what kind of engraving - hand cut by a jeweller, done with a pantograph engraving machine, vibrating engraver. If you want it done so that the barrel would look as if it had never been there, I would remove the barrel and sights, put the barrel on a lathe, sand off the marks with a belt sander, blending the sanded area with the rest of the barrel, polish the whole barrel, and reblue.

 

[CanAm]

Frankly is all that work and having to reblue it worth what you would make over the engraved gun? I have had a few with the owners SIN engraved with and electric pencil, I never considered removing it.