The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
Order here: https://www.bladeforums.com/help/2024-traditional/ - Order as many as you like, we have plenty.
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.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 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!![]()
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).