Sharpening Cera-titan?

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grimloki

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I've got a cera-titan blade... little Boker Zeta that I got a deal on. The blade is Cera-titan, a sintered mix of titanium, carbides, and a little silver...

So in essence its very hard carbide particles held in a matrix of relatively soft titanium. So the question I have is... how best to sharpen this stuff?

I looked on messerforums.com, translated through Google, and found an old post by a Boker employee talking about how they really liked this material, and that it kept an edge like nothing else cept ceramic, but one problem was sharpening it... that Boker didn't have grinding tools available.

Any ideas are appreciated.
 
I'm not familiar with the material, but diamond should cut it.
 
Welcome to Bladeforums! :)

The problem is that, sort of like ceramic, you probably need a very fine medium to sharpen it, to prevent breaking out the ceramic from the matrix. I can't think of the ad but I did read that it sharpens like an ordinary steel blade. I would be more caeful than that, though. Have you tried this question on our Boker forum? They tend to be responsive.
 
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