DLC / Coated K390

[electro-static]

I bought the BladeHQ DLC coated M4 delica and love what the coating it does for corrosion resistance and ease of cleaning. I love K390 and couldn’t think of a better thing than putting such a coating on the K390 seki spydercos to enhance ease of maintenance.

Is there a reason why we don’t see coated K390 Seki spydercos?

[abbazaba]

Seki and Taichung use TiCN, rather than DLC. AFAIK, TiCN is not as good as DLC from a durability and corrosion resistance standpoint, but is still better than no coating. If you like TiCN, you're gonna love DLC :)

I too am hoping they do a run of the current Seki K390 lineup with coated blades.

[electro-static]

Seki and Taichung use TiCN, rather than DLC. AFAIK, TiCN is not as good as DLC from a durability and corrosion resistance standpoint, but is still better than no coating. If you like TiCN, you're gonna love DLC :)

I too am hoping they do a run of the current Seki K390 lineup with coated blades.

I love my coated M4 delica. It’s kicked my K390 endura out of my pocket on account of the ease of maintenance. I can put it away dirty and not worry about rusting out the pivot

[vivi]

Seki and Taichung use TiCN, rather than DLC. AFAIK, TiCN is not as good as DLC from a durability and corrosion resistance standpoint, but is still better than no coating. If you like TiCN, you're gonna love DLC :)

I too am hoping they do a run of the current Seki K390 lineup with coated blades.

that's been my experience.

[abbazaba]

Seki and Taichung use TiCN, rather than DLC. AFAIK, TiCN is not as good as DLC from a durability and corrosion resistance standpoint, but is still better than no coating. If you like TiCN, you're gonna love DLC :)

I too am hoping they do a run of the current Seki K390 lineup with coated blades.

I love my coated M4 delica. It’s kicked my K390 endura out of my pocket on account of the ease of maintenance. I can put it away dirty and not worry about rusting out the pivot

https://www.bladehq.com/item--Spyderco- ... -2--186803

[ChrisinHove]

I agree. I’m borderline phobic about the risk of corrosion but my coated M4 Native is my favourite work knife. I have the coated 4v Goddard, too, but would love some coated k390 and maxamet.

[northvanbamboo]

You can get your blades coated with DLC at hvm.cz (by HVM Plasma) they charge $8usd per blade plus shipping. They can coat your liners if you desire so. You can check out their work on facebook group Spyderco CZ/SK, due to relatively low cost, lots of the blades in Czech are being coated there

[electro-static]

You can get your blades coated with DLC at hvm.cz (by HVM Plasma) they charge $8usd per blade plus shipping. They can coat your liners if you desire so. You can check out their work on facebook group Spyderco CZ/SK, due to relatively low cost, lots of the blades in Czech are being coated there

Do they do regrinds as well, also what temp do they go up to?

[navin johnson]

I bought the BladeHQ DLC coated M4 delica and love what the coating it does for corrosion resistance and ease of cleaning. I love K390 and couldn’t think of a better thing than putting such a coating on the K390 seki spydercos to enhance ease of maintenance.

Is there a reason why we don’t see coated K390 Seki spydercos?

Not needed

Also in my experience coatings create drag when cutting

Lots of available steel that corrodes less

But I view my knives as tools

[vandelay]

Is there a reason why we don’t see coated K390 Seki spydercos?

The coating process interferes with the blade temper. It might be possible to do on K390 but requires more R&D.

[Fireman]

Polished K390 with DLC would not create drag and would be highly desirable. Look up polished DLC. It rocks

[electro-static]

Is there a reason why we don’t see coated K390 Seki spydercos?

The coating process interferes with the blade temper. It might be possible to do on K390 but requires more R&D.

That is a reason that makes a lot of sense to because K390 doesn’t use a high temper for knife blades like it does for high speed tooling.