Blade Knife

How to paint and finish a knife blade?

well, i have a nice schrade “X timer” knife and its blade is about 7 inches long. the black finish has gotten kind of worn down and i just decided to take the it off the blade because it was looking all faded and scratched off and ugly. so i need to know how i can put a fresh black finish, or even another color, back onto it. anyone?

If you want longer lasting finish on your knife you’d have to contact either a knifemaker or a company that does the coatings.
I’ve done that few times in the past, with bodtycote, but unfortunately they don’t do custom orders anymore.
My Benchmade Nimravus and ares were both recoated, because the original BT-2 coating wears off real quick and gets scratched very easy, – http://zknives.com/knives/fixed/prod/nimravus.shtml there’s more details on that.

As for the coating materials itself, Duracoat doesn’t really work for knife blades, several people tried and reported not so encouraging results on BF.
Much better is Titanium nitride, or if you cant’ get that, Boron Carbide coating. Those are very hard and thin.
I’ve had Boron Carbide on Nimravus and every day carry BM 710 (http://zknives.com/knives/folding/benchmade/bm710ax.shtml) for years and still looking very fresh.

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