2023 GEC Cody Scout #721123LB

Jiki said:
Have you searched the internet or the forums?

Burnt Stag - How To ?

There is no reference at all on BF that I could find , Google didnt even come up with anything except steering me towards knifes with burnt stag scales. So my question is about burnt stag. Is it just a name for a style of stag or is it actually burnt for color ? If so , then how does...
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Yeah, but I don't really believe in bacon grease thing. At least I don't feel like trying it myself. Potassium permanganate I have tried, and burning a bone, which was dyed with it, won't help to achieve a "burnt" look. Well, it wasn't a torch I was using either...
 
Alex.Y. said:
Yeah, but I don't really believe in bacon grease thing. At least I don't feel like trying it myself. Potassium permanganate I have tried, and burning a bone, which was dyed with it, won't help to achieve a "burnt" look. Well, it wasn't a torch I was using either...
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Stag is not bone. Two different materials. Further down the thread maker's are simply using a torch. Here is what I accomplished in less than a minute with whitetail antler.
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This bone has nothing to do with Burnt Stag. I believe it is only called Burnt Sienna to reference the color. The glazing and dye work GEC does on what they sometimes call Pioneer bone is apparently a highly guarded secret. It occasionally shows up in different colors. Bill Howard’s Bone Room is off limits to all except those who have to know. I am going to GEC next month for a visit, and I will try to learn more. Of course, if they tell me they might have to kill me. If I disappear from the Forum sometime next month, tell them to look for my bones in the vicinity of Titusville. Or maybe they will just use me for a future run. What a great way to hide the evidence. Stay away from any future covers called Burnt Cajun.

birdsbeaks birdsbeaks , I was not implying that these are are identical to Pioneer Bone, only that they seem to have a similar treatment. To me it looks like some type of glaze with or without dye. However, I do not know what the exact recipe is. I am pretty sure these are not burned. Burnt Sienna is the name of the color. In making true Italian Burnt Sienna, the source material is heated to alter the color.
 
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Besides the "bone" part, Burnt Sienna Natural Bone and Pioneer Bone couldn't be any more different in color and texture -- at least for the examples I received.

At first, I thought the Burnt Sienna Bone might actually have been torched but now I'm questioning that. I'm thinking that they may be just talking the color "Burnt Sienna" as opposed to "Raw Sienna".
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"Burnt Sienna" is a color GEC has used in the past — the 29 Stockyard Whittler and the Northwoods Madison Barlow come to mind.
 
the sides of the lock bar in the cutout would look best if highly polished, at least on Northfield knives.... still a real nice knife.
 
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