CarboTi - Just another name for Fatcarbon?

robertlupus84

robertlupus84

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Hello everyone,

I have been seeing more and more manufacturers using CarboTi recently.

Found this shop (without imprint? but linked to Recon1 via ‘Events’?), but it doesn't explain much about the material.

Carbo Ti – Carbo-Ti

carboti.com carboti.com

Does anyone here have more information about the material? In particular, regarding production and durability.
I really like the look and feel of it. It shimmers wonderfully in the sun.


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From what I can tell it’s a very fine weave carbon fiber with colored resins. I would expect durability to be the same as regular woven carbon fiber. I’m not sure if it’s worth the extra cost over something like fatcarbon.
 
Thescrawnylumberjack said:
From what I can tell it’s a very fine weave carbon fiber with colored resins. I would expect durability to be the same as regular woven carbon fiber. I’m not sure if it’s worth the extra cost over something like fatcarbon.
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Maybe it’s only an other name for Fatcarbon?

fatcarbonmaterials.com

Colored Carbon Fiber: fatcarbon® for Advanced Designs

Learn about colored carbon fiber composites, how they are made, and how Fatcarbon® adds vibrant patterns and durability for use in knives, watches, and more
fatcarbonmaterials.com fatcarbonmaterials.com

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Sorry for the delay! I came home from Blade Show with covid and have just started feeling better yesterday. I have a ton of posts/updates for BF, and need to get my butt in gear!

Carbo Ti is a bit different than standard Fatcarbon or CamoCarbon, but similar to Fatcarbon Spectral and CamoQuartz (confusing, I know).

Regular Fatcarbon and CamoCarbon are both high quality carbon fibers that use things like polymers and/or metals to give them a pop of color. The layers on Fatcarbon are roughly .2mm thick. I don't have an exact spec for CamoCarbon, but it's similar.

Spectral is a special recipe made by Fatcarbon that uses layers of carbon fiber that are .05mm thick, which is about four times thinner than the layers on their standard carbon fibers. This makes it ridiculously strong. So strong in fact that the material has been used as lockbar, and has had screws threaded directly into it with no inserts on production knives. It's crazy tough.

CamoQuartz also uses layers that are roughly .05mm thick. They use a blend of carbon fiber and quartz in their recipe, which gives it a look and makeup more similar to Northern Thin Ply Technology (NTPT) CarboQuartz, which is really hard to come by now that it's owned by Richard Mille watches.

Carbo Ti uses layers that are of a similar thickness to CamoQuartz/Spectral/CarboQuartz. I'm not sure if they use colored quartz, or some sort of polymer, etc for their colored layers though. It's reported to be super strong, so I assume they're not using quartz, and something more along the lines of what is used in the Spectral.
 
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