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Blueing and nickel finish
components in-house, even casting moulds
and machining tools are designed and
built by Chiappa to guarantee maximum
reliability and production continuity.
All steel parts are turned from steel
bars or milled from solid steel blocks.
“High precision turning machines
can produce very small metal parts,
machining steel bars with the tightest of
tolerances. The CNC milling machines
can mount many different machining tools
to carry out countless contemporaneous
machining operations.
The final result of machining
precision, final bolstering with porcelain
pebbles and hand polishing of all parts
yield perfectly smooth and fluid actions
in our products.
Costa Giampietro, a Chiappa Group
company that specializes in the surface
treatment of metal parts, does all of the
Chiappa Products blueing, nickel-plating,
and polishing in Italy, thus guaranteeing
a perfectly smooth and eye-pleasing finish
time and time again.
The fitting of wood and metal parts
is performed manually in two separate
steps. Raw wood and metal parts are
assembled and polished together.
After which the parts are again
disassembled and numbered. Barrels and
receivers are sent to the Proof House with
rough stocks (which are often damaged
during the tests), wooden parts are
NC machining of pistol breech block
Various stage of assembly of handguns
coloured and hand oiled, while metal parts
are polished and tempered.
Finally all parts are re-assembled,
insuring that the wood to metal fit is
perfect. Fitting this way is an expensive
operation, in terms of time and cost.
“The pleasure of looking at, and handling
a firearm with perfect wood to metal fit,
is however incomparable” assures Mr
Chiappa.
All stocks and forends are manually
oiled 3 to 4 times. Though manually oiling
is a lot more expensive than varnishing,
hand oiling respects traditions and has a
distinct advantage. In case an oiled stock is
scratched, it can be restored by sanding and
Office personnel
re-oiling the scratched area. A varnished
stock meanwhile is not repairable.
Constantly investing in leading
edge machinery, logistics organization,
employment of specialized and professional
workers Chiappa says can guarantee a
reliable, qualitative, and cost competitive