Great ideas. Thank you all.

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Originally posted by RxEnergy:
Goo Gone is good, but besides orange peel (supposedly it's main ingredient) there're a lot of chemicals/acids in it as well. It's fine for glass, or porcelain, but if you miss a spot wiping the blade down after taking off the writing it may damage the steel.

Thanks for the info. I've always used the stuff on other things than metal with positive results. To the OP, be careful if you decide to use this stuff

Acetone/fingernail polish remover...no problem.

Acetone or acetone-based lacquer thinner/nail polish remover will remove the ink w/ no harm--

Edit-- weird-- Po's response wasn't showing when I wrote that

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Originally posted by Addicted:
A dealer near me writes the price of his Benchmades on the blade with a Sharpie. I know...that's dumb. For satin blades it's no big deal, but for their coated blades do you think Flitz would harm the BK coating? What could you use to remove the Sharpie without harming the bk coating?

Thanks.

Man, everyone is really over-thinking this! Sharpie is just a marker. The ink is easily removed with rubbing alcohol, and that didn't damage the old BT-2 coating, let along the new BK coating (it is CeraKote, after all).

Buy whatever coated knife you want, grab the rubbing alcohol and a q-tip/cotton ball/kleenex/paper towel/whatever, get it wet and rub the Sharpie ink off. I do this all the time when using the Sharpie trick when sharpening.