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Steelgaze

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I was just wondering if anyone had any expierience with ceramic coatings on knives?

I recently saw a booth set up at a machine tool trade show that was showing off some of the available coatings done in ceramic. When i asked the gentleman running the booth how thick the coating were he told me "no more than a couple mils" (millionths of an inch for those who don't work with such numbers much) I then asked him how the wear resistance was compared to other forms of coatings and he responded that it was much better than *most* coatings.

I'm sorta wondering if he was just making the process out to be better than it actually is.. Thanks for any info!

Chuck



Edit: the company in questions is www.classiccoatings.com
 
I know that there have been incredibly tough coatings developed for commercial use in machinery and such but I don't know if any of them have been used on knives.

I'm rather curious to know what the teflon coating on the Cold Steel folding knives is like. Anyone got one of these? How good is it? Does it scratch easily?
 
In short I don't know the specific answer to ypour question, although a tough coating is Black Titanium Carbonitride, which in my opinion is much tougher than Teflon BT2 which tends to scratch fairly easily.

The advantage of Teflon may make it more slippery for slicng through materials although I am only guessing.
 
gajinoz - I have a CS Recon 1 with the black coating. It's not that great imo. I haven't really used the knife that much but it shows some wear in the middle of the blade where the flat steel angles to the grind. I haven't cut any VW's in half like CS wants you to believe, but it shouldn't be showing wear yet. I've used my Nimravus more and it shows less wear with the BT2. The Recon1 is my beater knife for work now (construction electrician).
 
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