BK Coating and AFCK?

[Duffin444]

I have been seriously eyeing the AFCK as an addition to my growing commercial collection. I have heard great things about its ergonomics and all around usefulness for many different tasks. I like the D2 version, but I am skeptical of the blade coating. I will resign myself to the fact that this knife will be a hard user, but I would like the coating to stay intact as long as possible. The current BT2 coating, I have heard, flakes of after little use. I was doing some reading and stumbled upon BK coating in some Benchmades. Does this coating survive flaking and wear better than BT2? Do you think that Benchmade will make a run of the 806 in BK?

Thanks guys!
-Duffin

 

[Blop]

I don´t know. What i know is: The black wears of and the gray stays longer.

Most of the time people are worried about the looks (poor guys, these are knives to be used).

Never did i heard that the coating wont work, even weard down.

So, if they do use a better one, fine. If not, no matter.

 

[underaged!]

I haven't read anything about blade coatings chipping . My Kershaw Scallion, not sure what coating it is, either boron or TiNi, didn't chip even when I dropped it right on the flipper. It looks smashed now, but the coating is all good.

The clip paint will wear faster than the blade coating.

just something to think about.

 

[SIFU1A]

all blade coatings scuff up with use, all of them, it cant be avoided if ya use the knife. i have 2 with the bodycote diamond cote which is supposed to be as good as anything, and if ya use the knife to cut things it scuffs. it still protects the metal underneath, but looks like crap after a while, even boxes will scuff it up.

 

[WT351]

Some of the newer Benchmade clips chip quickly and look pretty bad afterward. They have since started putting out the older blackened clips that wear, but don't look cheap and the coating does not chip.

I have not had a problem with the blade coating chipping. I seem to remember a short run of one or two models that had some issues with the coating chipping, but I think that has been remedied.

One thing to remember is that Benchmade has used two different coatings in the recent past. Most of the hard work knives get the BT coating, while the smaller higher end knives get the BC1 coating. The BT is flat black...looks like paint but works much better. The BC1 is gray and usually looks like it was placed over a stonewashed blade.

This is a picture of a used BT coated blade. This is pretty typical of the wear you will see as time goes by.

 

[cmd]

Most people do not let the inevitable scratches showing in the coating bother them, but it did bother me.

So, I recently removed all of the BT2 coating from the blade of my 806D2 and really like the looks of it now. None of my other uncoated D2 blades have ever show any signs of corrosion or staining so it was not a concern for me with this one being uncoated either.

It did take a lot of work to get the finish looking good, but totally worth the effort. Removing the black and gray was easy, but the surface of the metal took a lot of time to get even looking.

And yes, the warranty is totally voided now, but I'm much happier.

Chris

 

[tknife]

You'd be surprised how long it will last, but it will still wear eventually. I personally don't think it looks bad with scratches and scrapes in the finish on a user. If you really want it to stay nice longer, get the satin.