spyderco blade coating

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So I just placed an order for the black blade Lum Chinese. But I don't know what the coating is, and couldn't find the info anywhere. Does anyone here know what Spyderco uses for coating these days? I'm sure it's top quality, whatever it is...

I've only had a few black coated blades. One from Benchmade and a couple from Microtech. The Benchmade was very disappointing -- teflon, I think -- it wore very quickly and looked ugly. The Microtech coating was vastly superior, boron carbide I think, and it was (and remains) nearly invincible.

Anyway, just curious and sort of giddy as I always am when knives are in the postal pipeline. :D
 
Other black bladed VG-10 Spydercos use a titanium carbonitride coating. Can't say for sure if that's the case with the Lum. They were made for Moteng, so Moteng may have been the one to specify the coating material.

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Thanks for the info! I'm googling to try to find some general performance comparisons...
 
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