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I love Fallkniven knives.
I have less love for coated blades. I know some like the badge of use that abraded coating becomes. I tend to favor the lack of resistance a clean finish gives when cutting thru thicker material.
All my Beckers have been stripped and oiled after use, but I know there are circumstances where a coating helps limit exposer of carbon steels to the elements in circumstances where normal knife care may be impossible or inconvenient.
One caveat to my dislike for coated blades is Spyderco's DLC coating. Back when they first released the Manix 2 XL in the version with the DLC blade, I picked one up cheap, and decided I'd remove the DLC coating. I'd removed a variety of professionally applied coating before, so I thought: No big deal. It was a big deal. It was as difficult and laborious as completely reprofiling a blade can be. In the end I regretted removing the finish that had so valiantly withstood the removal process that would have take me decades of normal use to equal.
To my question. Might be simple one - hoping so.
Fallkniven knives that come with black coated blades - is there a secondary bevel on these blades so you can repetetively sharpen them without having to intentionally wear away coating on a convex blade.
If not, it seems like painting the tread on your tire in order to protect it. That, or you have to fall into the group that likes the wear marks (not putting you down if you fall into that group. I'm just not a member).
The reason I mention this is I've seen a few black coated blades come up for sale or trade over the years and I have never jumped on one because the grind and coating seems about as harmonious as a fully coated scandi-ground blade.
Can people offer more info to enlighten this dull-witted geezer.
I have less love for coated blades. I know some like the badge of use that abraded coating becomes. I tend to favor the lack of resistance a clean finish gives when cutting thru thicker material.
All my Beckers have been stripped and oiled after use, but I know there are circumstances where a coating helps limit exposer of carbon steels to the elements in circumstances where normal knife care may be impossible or inconvenient.
One caveat to my dislike for coated blades is Spyderco's DLC coating. Back when they first released the Manix 2 XL in the version with the DLC blade, I picked one up cheap, and decided I'd remove the DLC coating. I'd removed a variety of professionally applied coating before, so I thought: No big deal. It was a big deal. It was as difficult and laborious as completely reprofiling a blade can be. In the end I regretted removing the finish that had so valiantly withstood the removal process that would have take me decades of normal use to equal.
To my question. Might be simple one - hoping so.
Fallkniven knives that come with black coated blades - is there a secondary bevel on these blades so you can repetetively sharpen them without having to intentionally wear away coating on a convex blade.
If not, it seems like painting the tread on your tire in order to protect it. That, or you have to fall into the group that likes the wear marks (not putting you down if you fall into that group. I'm just not a member).
The reason I mention this is I've seen a few black coated blades come up for sale or trade over the years and I have never jumped on one because the grind and coating seems about as harmonious as a fully coated scandi-ground blade.
Can people offer more info to enlighten this dull-witted geezer.
