DLC coating for a user?

I was also staying away from carbon steels, because I sometimes expose my blades to wet and humid conditions.
But it looks like the DLC is the fix for that too. It’s going to even harder to stay within my knife budget this year! :)
 
Danke42 said:
It's really good. I have a H-1 Ladybug on my keyring with black DLC. Had it for a few years and it's my first choice for a lot of cutting plus it gets dropped and the keys rub on the blade and the DLC is worn off the edges of the spine but it's just worn there the black and the etching still looks good.

I would rate that knife as abused because of how it's knocked around for unrelated tasks and it still looks good.

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I believe your knife has TiCN and not DLC, if I am not mistaken. Still it is a good coating, but not quite as hard as DLC.
 
kdnolin said:
I was also staying away from carbon steels, because I sometimes expose my blades to wet and humid conditions.
But it looks like the DLC is the fix for that too. It’s going to even harder to stay within my knife budget this year! :)
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DLC is not as corrosion resistant as you might think. It’s very porous which does allow carbon stress to corrode if neglected.
 
Sigsog226 said:
In my experience with Spyderco's dlc (which is alot), the only thing to actually go through it is when it comes in contact with other metals. Other then that, it gains marks/'smudges' that will come off by cleaning/rubbing them out.
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Here's a pic i dug up from an old sales thread of mine. All the marks aren't permanent except the tiny one left of the bug and the scratch at the grind just left of the 'SPYDERCO Cts-xhp'. The bug mark was it scratched against some aluminium i believe. And the grind one was from running against sharpening rods on a sharpmaker (med and fine).
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If it was aluminum that left that mark, you could have gotten that to go away with a little elbow grease and oil.

Aluminum is way, way softer than DLC. What you’re seeing isn’t a scratch, it’s actually just transfer of the aluminum onto the dlc. The dlc scratched the aluminum, not the other way around.
 
DLC is very durable, TiCN (used in Japanese models) isn't bad either, both are also totally non reflective.
 
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