I have a friend who does Cerakote and was wondering if this would work for a straight. I'm afraid that the baking process would untemper the steel.
Can you Cerakote a straight?
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Not sure about affecting the temper but I seriously doubt you could maintain the edge, once you coated it and protected the edge from coating you would have to reset the bevel as the additional coating would change the angle the as you honed it and the coating wore down it would have to be taken back to bevel pretty much every time but maybe I am missing something, if you wanted to try I would do it on a cheap gold dollar
You could try duracoat... It needs less heat to cure
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What temperature starts to be a problem with straights?
Depends on the steel, but they will all handle boiling temperature so the low temp curing coatings are a definite possibility.
I cold blued a couple GDs and it turned out well, taking several coats to get a uniform, solid black look to them (Parkerized look). Then, do you tape or grind off the bluing on the spine during honing? I still need to get them shoes to wear.
Tape them or you'll lose the blowing and it'll look bad
I know that, just saying there's a choice to be made at that point.
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