Dumb question - what does ckt mean?

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I know they put that on their black coated knives but I've never known what it actually means. Does it stand for the color? The type of coating?

As a piggyback question, what kind of coating do they use on their import blades (since they aren't DLC)?
 
I'm pretty sure it means cerakote.

Lobo13 said:
If you mean CRKT. It's Columbia River Knife & Tool
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No he means the model number. Example 1760BRNCKT
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I read somewhere CKT was Chesapeake Knife and Tool and they were the first to ask for a blacked out Kershaw knife like KWs stonewashed dealer specific models. Cerakote makes a lot more sense but not I guess what I've believed but I don't believe I've ever read anything official. I've never really given much thought to it though to really know or care what it stood for but now I'm interested a bit.
 
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oregonknifenerd said:
I read somewhere CKT was Chesapeake Knife and Tool and they were the first to ask for a blacked out Kershaw knife like KWs stonewashed dealer specific models. Cerakote makes a lot more sense and that is what I've always believed but I don't believe I've ever read anything official.
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I think what you heard about Chesapeake is correct.
 
It doesn't keep me awake at night and I thought it might be an interesting question for the community. The Chesapeake answer seems kind of bizarre, especially since a lot (most?) of the blacked out knives have that product designation. Well, stranger things have happened I guess.
 
My guess for why black blades stayed CKT and stonewashed blades stayed KW is because they didn't want to create an issue in the secondary market where people would have rare ckt marked black blade instead of DLC
 
KW as far as I know has to do with KnifeWorks. Their KW knives are beadblasted, not stonewashed.
 
sticktodrum said:
KW as far as I know has to do with KnifeWorks. Their KW knives are beadblasted, not stonewashed.
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I know what the KW stands for. What I was driving at it by keeping the designation KW instead of changing it to SW is to prevent a secondary market of popping up of people wanting to collect the uber rare KW version instead of the SW version. That or to prevent confusion.

Someone was on here recently asking about the different models made and one had a BLK designation and one had a CKT designation and there was discussion of if there was any difference.
 
ORLY? Hmmm, I missed the stonewashed pieces. Well, I'm still as stumped as the next guy with the CKT designation.
 
I've been wondering about the CKT designation myself. A search a few weeks ago only uncovered the possible
Chesapeake Knife & Tool connection.

Tom
 
TotalDbag said:
I'm pretty sure it means cerakote.



No he means the model number. Example 1760BRNCKT
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From the context of his question, he is talking about a coating, not a company name, so I'd guess that cerakote is the answer to his question.

Doesn't that model number mean Skyline with Brown scales and cerakote coated blade?
 
Well obviously it wasn't such a dumb question afterall! I have been curious myself.
 
For whatever reason the Chesapeake Knife and Tool story sounds more plausible to me than the cerakote deal. It makes sense to use the CKT designation if they were the first to ask for black blades, and then just keep that designation to avoid model number confusion. If they were using it for Cerakote, why wouldnt they use CER or even just C. Picking three letters at random out of a word seems strange, but I guess we will find out soon.
 
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