Coating wear, which is the worst?

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Which coating do you feel wears the worst?

For me, the coating on the boss street is probably the fastest I've ever seen. Maybe it's just because of the texture, but I've had the knife a week and it looks like I've had it a year. I could care less honestly, but i'm curious what coatings you think wear the fastest. The longest for me thus far has been sage, which smoothed out unlike the crinkle coating which seems to just chip off and smooth instantly. Granted I have been kind of hard on the knife, pulling staples from a crate, scraping grinding swarf off a carbide workpiece rest, prying some fatwood from a stump near my house.

I won't even need to strip the knife at this rate, it's stripping itself.
 
the black coating on my skinny ASH, is tuff as hell.
the sage on my (ex) SAR5 was durable, too.
the black on my GW was also very resistant.
the tan on my CGFBM gives it up quite easy...
the black on the RMD is also durable

Probably it has something to do with the surface of the actual blade more, than the coating itself...decarb, smoothness...whatever(?!)
 
I've got a nmsfno in the black coating that seems to be wearing pretty well. No chipping so far, but the coating seems to be somewhat smoother than the coating
on the new boss st. But everyone says the sage wears better.
 
The jungle green coating has worn extremely well on my ASH1, NMFBM, and Batac CG. Whatever the color on my ST56 has worn extremly well too. My black and grey coated blades usually look pretty worn after a few weeks.

Patrick
 
My sage NMSFNO has some very light smoothing after not very much batoning.

My much abused Skinny ASH with a muddy coating smoothed out almost immediately, and on the sides I'm into the decarb. The coating around the tip is chipping off now, and the edges of the spine are down to metal. It looks better every time I use it.

Then there's the new Boss Street. Two cuts through a cardboard box and there is very visible wear on the coating. I'd say its the softest. It's going to have to be a hard user because its not going to be possible to keep it pretty.
 
I strip most INFI before too long. I keep saying I'll wait, but just can't stand the way it looks smoothed out. If they coated with the same thing that Zero Tolerance does I'd have a little more patience. Of course that's because I can't figure out how to uncoat my 301.
 
mymindisamob said:
I strip most INFI before too long. I keep saying I'll wait, but just can't stand the way it looks smoothed out. If they coated with the same thing that Zero Tolerance does I'd have a little more patience. Of course that's because I can't figure out how to uncoat my 301.
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Sandpaper will do it, about 400 grit and finish with 800 grit. :D
 
My users are Sage and that stuff just doesn't move. :eek: :D

Haven't used the Boss Street too much or hard except in the Video I made and the coating is still good after that.
 
I haven't noticed any one color being more or less wear resistant. I'd love to see a DLC coated Busse but I bet the cost would be ridiculous because it would have be taken near satin first.
 
I think the OD, now called Jungle Green, holds up to wear very well. Maybe the best of all.

The new Tanker Grey look very smooth, and looks as it would hold up very well also. Have no idea though, but maybe someone with one will chime in.


I haven't used a Black Crinkle, and no longer have any in that. But with one I did have you could see a little smoothing from just sliding the factory sheath over Blade a few times.
 
Observations:
-Busse and Swamp Rat
Sage, Green and Muddy hold up on avg the best.
Black, depends on the time the coating was applies. My Ergo's are holding quit well, while a FFBM wore fast. Blk Chopweiler wore fast.

-Scrap Yard
Blk held up for a long time after a good smoothing. Don't get me to lying but they did.

All in All, I take the Busse Sage as the BEST!!!
 
The tanker grey, on my BWM is smoothing very fast, but as for wearing off, I haven't seen any signs of it yet. The areas that are smoothing are the ones that make the most contact with the log during batoning, but the spine where I've been beating it, is not showing any wear.
 
jungle green!!!!

I think the thicker smooth coats do the best initially, and thus last longer in the long run. the crinkle coats tend to wear fastest initially.

I have absolutely no idea about the sand paper finishes (some of the desert shadow, tan, and I think possibly the newer bama clay)
 
I kind of like the look of an ugly beat up coat :)

My tan batac is pretty beat up, but it has sen a fair amont of use. Still havent really put my BWM to the test, but it smoothed a little chopping up some boxes :o
 
yeah the jungle green holds out very well I beat the crap out of my NMSFNO and coating still remains, seems like it has a few layers of coating
 
Soulrack223 said:
I haven't noticed any one color being more or less wear resistant. I'd love to see a DLC coated Busse but I bet the cost would be ridiculous because it would have be taken near satin first.
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haven't you seen the DLC coated blade Jaxx had done for someone who bought one of his? it looks great, and IIRC re sent it to Ion Bond for the work.
 
I'm heading out for some more ice fishing this morning, and I'm only bringing my boss street. I will be using the knife heavily for the fire, as i'm intentionally bringing nothing else. If all goes according to plan, the coating will strip itself off by the end of the day.

Let's hope that deadly frozen wood doesn't claim the life of the BS!
 
I think the boss st. will be fine. But your probably right about the coating. Good luck on your fishing trip, and be safe 230.
 
I don't need luck... a typical day ice fishing with us mainly involves eating, see.. we bring a lot of food, grill it all up... eat it all. Once we're done eating all the food we've brought, we have to catch some fish so we can continue eating. Usually this involves sitting in our bob house, waiting for a flag to pop then fighting over who's going to go back outside and get the fish. Ice fishing isn't about fishing, it's about eating.. then catching a few fish to eat some more. :D
 
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