Powder Coat or an alternative to blueing

mostho

mostho

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hello mates,
i'm finding a way to add an alternative coating on my blade instead of blueing or patina or etching with ferric.

I cannot afford any titanium nitride or coating like busse but something that I can do in my shop.

Just to add an extra protection, a special paint, a varnish....

This guy has a nice protection and makes lovely knifes:
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Any ideas? Any brand of paint like this?

Cheers!
 
Just about any coating you can apply "in shop" isn't going to hold up very long under the kinds of use a knife gets. Just with repeated cutting through various materials the coats will scuff, and eventually wear off. I've used everything thats been mentioned so far (Dura-Coat, Gun-Kote, as well as Powder coating, and Parkerizing).....none of them will hold up for very long on a straight steel using knife. That might not be a concern, but it can create hard feeling on a customer's part if the nice looking blade you sold them looks like poop after several uses.
 
Electroless nickel plating will protect carbon steel blades for far longer than any paint.
But, it's not tactical black........
 
Ceracoat is the toughest ive found. I have used it on guns and knives.
Duracoat and Guncoat are both good products as well, just not quite as tough as ceracoat.
Here is one with graphite black ceracoat. I made this one for me to use and abuse just to see how long the coating will hold up. It is doing well after just 2 weeks of work, although I work in the oil fields so my knives take quite a beating.
In general I agree with Ed, that is any coating will eventually wear.

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I have had good results with kg gun kote 3400. I have taken brass rod to it and the gunkote filed a good 1/16"+ of the rod before I hit metal. make sure you get the stuff that you have to bake. its really good stuff.


-Josiah
 
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