Benchmade 970 with full Ti blade?

jill jackson

jill jackson

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I noticed a 970 Specwar version with "full Titanium blade with Borzon carbide crystal cutting edge" on eBay and it's a live auction still so i can't link it.
My question is BM made this with a Ti blade? I never knew they used Ti for a blade before.:confused:
 
Yes, it's legit. It was a collab with Emerson - Emerson later formed his own company and the knife style became the CQC-7.
 
How did the Borzon carbide crystal cutting edge work? Ti is soft and it looks like anything on the edge would be gone, first sharpening. Was it somehow embedded throughout the center of the blade, so it would always be there, despite sharpening?
 
IIRC it's fused to one side and the blade is a true flat sided chisel profile. As you sharpen the chisel you expose a new 'line' of carbides at the edge.

Planning on clearing a minefield, are you? That's the only reason I can think of for a Ti blade.
 
I have a Mission MBK which is a skeleton handled 4" Ti blade that I find handy for food prep.
 
My understanding is that it is basically a self sharpening blade. You don't actually sharpen it by conventional means. As you use the blade the Ti wears away slowly exposing the carbide, which does the actual cutting.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
I have a Mission MBK which is a skeleton handled 4" Ti blade that I find handy for food prep.
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Handy in what way? Because it won't react to acids in foods or something else? Would you choose it over a conventional stainless kitchen knife. Or are you being a knife nut and using it just because you have it? :)
I've been using an Aqua Salt as a kitchen knife for a while 'just because'. My wife has put it in the dishwasher 3-4 times now...drives me crazy!

I really want to try one of the new generation of ceramic kitchen knives sometime.
 
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