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So how tough are these new coatings?

I'm wondering the same thing, Sam. Have no desire to go through the stripping process and will be pleased if the new coating means the tweeners finish will stay black a lot longer!
 
Its an epoxy powder coating, just run of the mill stuff. I mean, Kabar isn't coating them in unobtainium or anything. It just textured is all. It will scrape your fingernails, which the other coating won't do.

I have high hopes for the new coating, really I do. Its very similart to what you would find on most other knives I think.

Moose
 
The new coatings look a lot like the coatings on the Ontario Gen 2 line.
I have a SP-42 and the coating is wearing very little after a TON of abuse!
I think the new coatings will fit the Beckers well because they are marketed as a hard-use knife,
and the coatings were the only thing that made them not look like hard use blades.
The new coatings have some high expectations to meet, and hopefully exceed!

-orangish ducktape
 
I am really impressed with the current coatings. My 9 has been through a lot and it still has a ton of coating left. We'll have to wait and see.
 
Coatings wear off anything if you use it, I don't really worry about it. If I need another one to be pretty they are cheap enough to get one and stick it on the wall.
 
eh, new coatings. just one more way to tell the newest generation and tweakings from the old...

oh, yes. many other little and not so little changes coming. so a little bird tells me. alas, i can't say

and now, back to the bit mines of moria, that i might impress my masters, and keep my job another week...
 
I hear if Chuck Norris were coated in it, he'd be invincible.
 
Ka-Bar was going to use Dozier beard dust in its coatings, but that stuff has gone through the roof on the international market.
 
Yeah it looks good on the catalog from kabar that came in yesterday...if you get a chance get one and look at those things....it's like being 15 again and staring at a womans thighs covered by fishnet stockings.
 
I like the new laser engraving on the blades. It looks good. But I'm kind of ambivalent to the new powder coat. I'm not usually a fan of knife coatings, since I have some kind of OCD mental block that prevents me from actually using coated knives. All my working knives have naked blades. I hate to mar the finish on my coated blades. Hate it. That's the whole reason I've never bought a TOPS knife; I knew I'd never have the heart to use it.

So I'm probably going to strip my new Beckers right off the bat. I really want a naked and patina-ed BK-17. I have a feeling that's going to be one of my favorite fixed blades ever.
 
I have a buddy who was like that with the AR's I build for him, never took them outside. I say was because when he came over for the last one I asked for it back for a minute popped the eotech off, set it down in my driveway then gave it a good kick down 30 feet of concrete, put the eo back on handed it to him and told him he can go play with it now without his annoying ocd scratch issues getting in the way. In 40 years I have never seen such a look of horror.
 
LOL! I bet that freaked him out.

Good news is, I just went out back and chopped the crap out of some firewood with my coated Beckers. There are scratches now!? :eek: Yeah, okay. It's all good.

One step at a time, brother.
 
Skystorm said:
I have a buddy who was like that with the AR's I build for him, never took them outside. I say was because when he came over for the last one I asked for it back for a minute popped the eotech off, set it down in my driveway then gave it a good kick down 30 feet of concrete, put the eo back on handed it to him and told him he can go play with it now without his annoying ocd scratch issues getting in the way. In 40 years I have never seen such a look of horror.
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snerk. i use my toys, but if someone dropped my favorite toy and did that, i'd club them like a baby seal on free seal clubbing day :> unless they bought me a new one ;) i'm less worried about wear and tear, as outright abuse, esp if they've been built to be accurate. course, i also buy USED knowing full well that some love marks are fine... just not impacts ;) the eotech probably could take it ;)
 
Sam Hell said:
.it's like being 15 again and staring at a womans thighs covered by fishnet stockings.
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It's better than that.
You can touch it instead of just looking, without getting arrested.

Skystorm said:
I have a buddy who was like that with the AR's I build for him, never took them outside. I say was because when he came over for the last one I asked for it back for a minute popped the eotech off, set it down in my driveway then gave it a good kick down 30 feet of concrete, put the eo back on handed it to him and told him he can go play with it now without his annoying ocd scratch issues getting in the way. In 40 years I have never seen such a look of horror.
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Sir that is just mean.
 
If you were to take off the finish would the laser etching still remain? How hard would this finish be to remove compared to the last one?
 
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