Factory coating on blades. Why remove?

I could see taking the coating off my older beckers but not the newer ones. The "older ones" have this black really smooth finish on them and the newer ones have this black rough texture on them which I love. I have honestly thought about rebuying all the knives I have so that I can mod the older ones with the smooth black finish and keep the newer ones with the rough black finish factory.
 
I stripped my BK15 because I actually don't like the rough coating. To me it seemed to make it a bit sticky when trying to do some thin slicing. On my BK16 I only sanded the rough finish smooth and actually prefer that. Still keeps the rust protection while allowing it to slice quite nicely. The only drawback is it doesn't look as nice. I don't care though since it's a workhorse.
 
I think Bighoss did a great job explaining why people do it. There are so many different opinions on this matter. Imagine being Kabar and dealing with this. They changed the coating because so many people complained the old one came off to easy. So they try to give us a tougher one and now there are people complaining its too rough. There just is no way for them to make everyone happy but luckily for us we can take matters into our own hands and mod it to our liking.

I personally liked the old coating better and agree the new one is a bit too rough. But its easily fixed. For anyone who feels the new coating is too rough it can be smoothed out with sandpaper and still leave a pretty effective coating. Using it a lot helps too. :)
 
I like the idea of using sand paper to smooth it out. I want to keep the protection....just get rid of the roughness.
 
Depending on how much you use it and how the roughness of the coating and the coating itself will disappear....

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