Ionbond Laser Hardening

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http://www.ionbond.com/en/technology/laser-hardening/

What are your thoughts on taking an uncoated elmax blade at about 59 hrc and sending it to ionbond for one of their coating services followed by a laser rehardening to something like 62 hrc? They say that a couple of their coatings go on at about 70 degrees Celsius and that laser hardening increases wear resistance versus traditional methods. Thoughts?
 
How is that better than just having that steel at 62 all the way through ?

especially after you sharpen the coating away
 
Is the hardening only on the surface? Is it good for edge retention, or abrasion resistance (on the flats?) only?

I'm confused, but metallurgically (is that a word?) speaking that isn't uncommon. :o
 
I have no idea. I've not heard about it and what it can do. I don't know if the hardening only is the surface, or one or two millimeters in, or whatever. If it's something like one millimeter then it shouldn't be sharpened away quickly and seems like it'd be a new way to differentially harden a blade where the core is soft.

Anyway, I'm less concerned about the laser hardening than I am about taking a finished blade and sending it to them to be coated and at what temperature would the coating process start screwing with the heat treatment of the blade itself. I guess my actual question is how does Rockstead create that super polished DLC coating and how can I do that on my own blades.
 
The Ionbong coating is so thin as to be physically unnoticeable. The temperature for this process is about 300 degrees F.
 
Ionbond can't be polished. The underlying material can be polished before the coating.
It won't affect the blade hardness. What, exactly are you trying to accomplish?
 
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