Coatings new vs. old

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Widerstand

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I haven't seen much talk about them since they have came out, today I just got my first new Becker (BK15) that has the new coating, seems much better then the old one.

How does it compare to the old coatings now that most of you have seen both?
 
It holds up much better. The coating on my BK4 has thinned some but is still intact.
 
It's a lot tougher to strip so it ought to hold up to regular use a lot better too.
 
Congrats on the new 15 Widerstand!
It seems like it would be an awesome knife to have.
How are you liking it so far?
 
New one is tougher, but it "collects" wood chards (and meat?) a lot easier than the old one.
 
Jonny1280 said:
Congrats on the new 15 Widerstand!
It seems like it would be an awesome knife to have.
How are you liking it so far?
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Only had it a day, but so far I am liking it, when it showed up it was the dullest knife I have ever held I think, as it I could saw it on my wrist with nothing happening, really it had zero edge what so ever, but now after working it I can shave my arm hair with it.

I mostly got it cause I love my 5 so much.

I will strip it, after I use it some, the coat is the same as esee's it seem, when i striped an esee4 it took me 3 attempts to get it all off.
 
So far i have left mine on but i don't see it in the future it ads a lot of resistance.
 
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In my opinion the new hold up better but they also get buggered up faster because of the texture. You really have to lubricate the blade especially if your dealing with sappy wood. I like the old coating but it doesn't really matter because I eventually strip all my blades anyway.
 
I hate both.

The new is ''better'' if you want to keep it, but it gathers up about half of whatever you're cutting. I dont leave coatings on unless maybe under the scales or on the handles.

The new looks better I guess, kinda cool. The best looking coating I have seen so far was on the Sykco 311.
 
I'm on the fence with the new coating. I do like that it is so tough, but like the others have have mentioned, the coating collects whatever you're cutting, aside from meat, which comes off easy. I whittled a bunch of feathersticks with my FFG16 and it cleaned up good as new. The old coating would have been marked up.

I'd don't really care for the drag the pebbly texture causes. When I first tried cutting tomoatoes with my 17, the coating seemed to prevent it from cutting through without smashing them, despite the fact that the 17 was freshly stropped. I've solved the problem by convexing the edges of my coated Tweeners from 1/8 to 1/4 inches up the blade, which narrows the edge and smooths out the finish to make it less grabby. It seems to work. Now all my Tweeners will go through tomatoes like kitchen knives.

Here's a pic of what I'm talking about.
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That filmy stuff where the convexing stops is actually stropping compound I forgot to clean off.
 
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