Does you kydex sheath remove the colored coating on your blade from drawing?

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AfterDark

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My blade tech kydex sheath is putting permanent marks on the green factory melonite coating on the blade. It is removing some of the coating from repeated drawing and in other areas of the knife, it is lightly scratching the coating and smearing it. The knife looks lightly used now just from drawing with no actual use at all. Is this normal? Anyone here have a similar experience with colored coated blades?
 
My Ka-Bar Fin has a (what I assume is) Kydex sheath, and it hits in one spot on both sides of the blade, and it has already rubbed the tough coating off. I have had the knife for a week, and only unsheathed it like 100 times.
 
The same for my Strider/Tarani karambit, too bad, the tiger stripe coating is very cool
 
I consider sheathing and unsheathing use with either leather or plastic sheaths since it puts wear on the knife and sheath. Most of my user blades are in kydex, and it's kind of a bummer when the draw marks start on a new blade, but after awhile it's just character.
 
The problem is that most people don't know how to make a Kydex sheath. If done properly it won't scratch the blade and should just grab the handle. I've got some kydex sheaths made by Benchmade and TOPS that work like a charm. I guess it doesn't matter if the knife is a user, but for a collector knife I would never use kydex.
 
Like Suttond says. A well made Kydex sheath, factory or custom, will not damage the coating any time soon. Sure.....in time everything will wear out.
 
yup, its made my kabar look more used than what it is.. not like it matters though.. if i were using it as a collectible id have gotten a leather sheath
 
just disappointed since it's a blade tech sheath and the knife was around 300 so I expected a more seamless finish.
 
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