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How well do the various titanoum oxide coatings stand up to flexation?
I've seen them on knives and they do just fine, but I'm thinking of putting them on a spring, for the purpose of increasing corrosion resistance. Since brittleness usualy comes hand in hand with hardness, but thinnes usualy means flexibility, I was wondering which way this one'd go...
Also, is titanium oxide a sufficient barrier to corrosion, if the source of the corrosion will be a sweaty palm?(navaja project, leafspring is on the back of the handle)
I've been looking at some stuff, and the old way around this was to tin the spring, or to silver plate it, so I figured there'd have to be a more modern alternative, not that there's anything wrong with the old way.
I'm also considering KalGard, as it's done a pretty good job on my Project 1, just that I've never had this knife noticably flex, so I don't know wether or not it'd start peeling up like bad chrome.
And has anybody messed with JetHot?
I've seen them on knives and they do just fine, but I'm thinking of putting them on a spring, for the purpose of increasing corrosion resistance. Since brittleness usualy comes hand in hand with hardness, but thinnes usualy means flexibility, I was wondering which way this one'd go...
Also, is titanium oxide a sufficient barrier to corrosion, if the source of the corrosion will be a sweaty palm?(navaja project, leafspring is on the back of the handle)
I've been looking at some stuff, and the old way around this was to tin the spring, or to silver plate it, so I figured there'd have to be a more modern alternative, not that there's anything wrong with the old way.
I'm also considering KalGard, as it's done a pretty good job on my Project 1, just that I've never had this knife noticably flex, so I don't know wether or not it'd start peeling up like bad chrome.
And has anybody messed with JetHot?