Who makes Ceramic Knives

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Who makes ceramic knives besides Boker and Kyocera? Regardless of what type it is, whether Kitchen or hunting or whatever.

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you sneaking through metal detectors??;):p
i wouldnt recommend a ceramic knife otherwise. They are rather fragile.
 
I wish I could change my name. The one I wanted was taken and so I just thought of this spontaneously and entered it b/c I was in a hurry.

I don't actually love to...
 
Kyocera produces high quality ceramic knives , China manufacturer produce lower quaility kitchen knives . Boker ceramic only private labelled .
But one item is cer-tan[?} , it is Claimed that lower weight ,similar to steel nature.
I have one but I have not tested in actual cutting .
 
loves2stab, just register a different name. anything is better than that. hell, large coffee is a better name.
ceramic knives are great for kitchen use, if you can manage not to bang them around too much. even if you could laminate it to something that wasn't as fragile, like the carbide edge on some ti knives, one good ding would take care of it in short order.
 
I have a Puma Sportec 232461 in ceramic from '96 (Keramik as they say).
I've never used it though.

I don't think they make them anymore.

mike
 
There was also the Dad Dog Mirage-X series, they were fixed blades and not avalible to the general public, I saw one at a gunshow for $600 once.
 
There are two factories for industrial ceramic blades. One is Kyocera in Japan and the other is in China. I don't know the name. Boker ceramic blades are made by Kyocera.

The material is known as zirconium oxide. It is very hard and very brittle. Frankly, it makes a terrible knife blade for any purpose. It chips, breaks if dropped. It can't take a very sharp edge without chipping, hard to sharpen. Not much to recommend it other than its ability to maintain an edge for about 5 times longer than steel.
 
din said:
loves2stab, just register a different name. anything is better than that. hell, large coffee is a better name.
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Or even coffeecup . . . oh wait, that one is taken! (I had some trouble registering, and was just trying things at random; this works, and I've grown accustomed to it.)

If you want to make a ceramic or composite knife, you might take a look at some of the references from the makers of ceramic tooling for machine shops. I don't know how much information is out there, but they had to have done some extensive research before making them.
 
I second (third, fourth.....) the idea that it is not a good knife blade material.
My boker only lasted several months b4 snapping off. Side note: this is where I learned not to "lend out" my knife!

Upside is this was sheeple frendly ("pretty" and non threatining), extremely light and cut well.

For the money there are much better choices.
 
hardhart do you know much about cera-titan. I remember when it came out I bought one of the little Bokers ( think model 188 or somesuch) with a cera-titan blade. First off, it was an extremely chinzy piece, even though it cost close to 100 bucks. The thumstud is rubber(!) There were some impressive ad claims, like 30% better edgeholding than S30V, as I recall. It came with a good edge, but after using it for a while I was not able to restore the edge. I tried both diamond and a spyderco tri-angle (ceramic). I don't have thes eproblems with steel blades.

The material never caught on despite the tantalizing combo of edge-holding & flexibility/toughness. Was it all hype, or just very bad marketing, or what?
 
wutitiz said:
hardhart do you know much about cera-titan. I remember when it came out I bought one of the little Bokers ( think model 188 or somesuch) with a cera-titan blade. First off, it was an extremely chinzy piece, even though it cost close to 100 bucks. The thumstud is rubber(!) There were some impressive ad claims, like 30% better edgeholding than S30V, as I recall. It came with a good edge, but after using it for a while I was not able to restore the edge. I tried both diamond and a spyderco tri-angle (ceramic). I don't have thes eproblems with steel blades.

The material never caught on despite the tantalizing combo of edge-holding & flexibility/toughness. Was it all hype, or just very bad marketing, or what?
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From what I remember, the ad copy specifically said you can not restore an edge on one of those blades, you have to send it back to Böker and they'll do it.

I think the problem with ceramic blades was a combination of people wanting steel toughness, general buyers being loathe shell out 100 bucks to try out something that new, and the lack of the ability to sharpen the knife yourself.
 
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