Knife coating.

Harden Knives

Harden Knives

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Hello,

I've tried doing research to find which would be the best coating but couldn't turn up much info. Plus I think its good to have the info here for other people.

I am doing a lot more on the folder world and have a customer wanting black coated flats and gold anodized edges and chamfers on a titanium handle. I need to find what kind of coating will work and one that will also work well with blades. It seems cerakote is extremely expensive and a hard process that I probably won't be able to do in shop, is there anything I could do in say, on oven? Are there somrle chemical processes that I don't know about?

Just a few tips or a point in the right direction would be wonderful.

Thanks in advance!
 
Duracoat sucks. I rate it as slightly above Krylon.

Cerakote is good when properly applied. $25-30 bucks for a blade

DLC is also good. Cheaper individually but around $200 minimum for most places.

Outsource it for a good job.

Also there's this idea Pat Hammond posted elsewhere "Use a brass wire wheel to roughen the ti, wash the piece with soap and water, do not touch it. You dont want body oils on it.then heat it red, quench it in water and wire buff it again. repeat 2 or 3 times.I learned this from Lee Williams"
 
Joe Watson said:
Duracoat sucks. I rate it as slightly above Krylon.

Cerakote is good when properly applied. $25-30 bucks for a blade

DLC is also good. Cheaper individually but around $200 minimum for most places.

Outsource it for a good job.

Also there's this idea Pat Hammond posted elsewhere "Use a brass wire wheel to roughen the ti, wash the piece with soap and water, do not touch it. You dont want body oils on it.then heat it red, quench it in water and wire buff it again. repeat 2 or 3 times.I learned this from Lee Williams"
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Yeah...I really only want to do this one or maybe a few total but don't think I will spend the money to get a whole batch of blades coated when I don't even like the finish that much. I will however try out that darkening trick.
 
Harden Knives said:
Yeah...I really only want to do this one or maybe a few total but don't think I will spend the money to get a whole batch of blades coated when I don't even like the finish that much. I will however try out that darkening trick.
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it'll be orange peeled, and black
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S. Alexander- do you have pics of anyone attaining black with Oxiclean? Tried it a few times and it wasn't close to black, seems that way in the tutorials I've seen as well. As of right now I prefer a tumble over that method.
 
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