Coated blades

[ScooterG]

Some pics of frequent users. PVD on top and has the most use.

 

[BigKurtHaze]

Call me Gecko45.

 

[DocJD]

Cold Steel with, I believe, a DLC coating which holds up for crap.

Thanks for temporarily spiking my vital signs !

 

[Trevor_Phillips]

Honestly, I don't have a preference either way. Some knives I like the look of best without a coat. Some I like better with a coat. If I'm looking at a folder for regular EDC stuff, I'll take it without. If I'm looking at something for heavy use, I like the look a larger knife with a scratched and worn coating. And yes, that definitely includes scratches on the coating. I feel like it gives it some character. But, if someone just hands me something with a coat on it that I'd like better without, it doesn't bug me. Same goes the other way around

 

[BigKurtHaze]

Showing a little character.

 

[Planterz]

I only like my blades coated with the blood of my enemies.

 

[SavageSick]

How many of you guys use DLC coated blades on food?

Is it food-safe? (Yes, I've extensively Google'd this question)

 

[jkwithawave]

For folders I prefer uncoated blades. I think I've only got 3 coated blades out of the 15-20 I have. Fixed blades, I don't care either way. Maybe half or more are coated.

And yet my favorite folder has a cerakoted blade.

 

[Henry Beige]

It says here that coated blades are naff.

 

[DocJD]

I only like my blades coated with the blood of my enemies.

The smelliest patina ! Prevents most requests to borrow your knife .

 

[Therom]

coated blades can bring something "tacticool" to a knife design, but I am usually not a fan of it.
I had some coated blades from Emerson, ER, ZT and Spyderco... I have sold most of them, still have a 0630 with a blade blade.

Actually, I recently put my coated PM2 on a destruction test and the coating has resisted very well to all my abuses.