I am trying to find some info on a knife I have. It is a buck 119 but it is a gold color and says buckcote. I asked a knife dealer at a gun show and he said he had never seen one before. So hoping someone can help me! Thank You! Glenn Bradley
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They were made for around ten years from the mid 1990s and they switched the name from "Buckcote" to "Ionfusion" because the coating was actually fused to the 420HC molecularly, it wasn't a coating at all......The blades were chisel sharpened--only one side--to expose the coating on the micro edge...Very sharp blades but were not designed for very heavy duty cutting and certainly not chopping...If you didn't abuse them they held an edge forever but they are also a real bitch to sharpen!
They were made in silver, purple, grey, light gold, gold and champagne...The dark gold blades are coated with Titanium Nitride (TiN) which has a hardness on the Rockwell scale of 82C (HRC). The light gold or champagne blades are Zirconium Nitride (ZrN) at 85 HRC. The dark gray or charcoal blades are Titanium Aluminum Nitride (TiAlN) at 92 HRC. The Purple Titanium Carbonitride blades are 87 HRC.
From CJ Buck himself:
The company that did the vapor deposition was Molecular Metallurgy Inc. It was a fascinating process involving putting in targets, slabs of titanium, aluminum, zirconium etc and bombarding them electrically in a chamber charged with nitrogen. The targets throw off atoms which bond with the nitrogen and slam into the blade penetrating the surface and then building up over time creating a new hardened skin. You would not call it a coating anymore then you would call your own skin a coating and that was why we changed the name. You could put in multiple targets of more then one material and get the combos like titanium/aluminum nitride or titanium/zirconium etc...
You can check with Buck Knives themselves and also from the Buck Knife Collectors Club...You could also try the NKCA - National Knife Collectors Association Inc.
Try Jay's Knives for some price ranges -- he deals a lot in older Buck knives...I'm guessing here big time but the knife should be worth around $125 to $150 and I think I'm a bit low.
They were made in silver, purple, grey, light gold, gold and champagne...The dark gold blades are coated with Titanium Nitride (TiN) which has a hardness on the Rockwell scale of 82C (HRC). The light gold or champagne blades are Zirconium Nitride (ZrN) at 85 HRC. The dark gray or charcoal blades are Titanium Aluminum Nitride (TiAlN) at 92 HRC. The Purple Titanium Carbonitride blades are 87 HRC.
From CJ Buck himself:
The company that did the vapor deposition was Molecular Metallurgy Inc. It was a fascinating process involving putting in targets, slabs of titanium, aluminum, zirconium etc and bombarding them electrically in a chamber charged with nitrogen. The targets throw off atoms which bond with the nitrogen and slam into the blade penetrating the surface and then building up over time creating a new hardened skin. You would not call it a coating anymore then you would call your own skin a coating and that was why we changed the name. You could put in multiple targets of more then one material and get the combos like titanium/aluminum nitride or titanium/zirconium etc...
You can check with Buck Knives themselves and also from the Buck Knife Collectors Club...You could also try the NKCA - National Knife Collectors Association Inc.
Try Jay's Knives for some price ranges -- he deals a lot in older Buck knives...I'm guessing here big time but the knife should be worth around $125 to $150 and I think I'm a bit low.
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