A-More-Durable-Yellow Handle Material Than Osage

[Mistwalker]

Okay, I love Osage, I really do. especially the first days and even weeks. But it's the yellow I love most.

The more orange it turns, the more in blends in with the earthly stuff in the background, and the less it suits my needs.

I've seen the lemon drop G10 new on the website, and I love it. But I don't know how long it stays actually yellow with use and I prefer the abrasion resistance of micarta over G10.

And With Canary Yellow, I don't know how long it stays actually yellow. I mean I don't mind washing something in detergent and water to clean it back up and bring the color back, and I understand the color fading some, but I don't want to have to sand it back to color, and I don't want it to become a completely different color, and it will be used quite a bit.

To clarify, I'm hunting the right color yellow Fiddleback to stay yellow in photos from the start of one growing season to the end of it.

This project is a pretty special idea for me, it's on as much of the flora and fauna of the southeast US section of the creation as I can give info on, in a forum thread setting, here on Blade Forums, and maybe one other.

The yellow is a long story, but the nutshell version is my Dr and I, who is as devout in her faith as I am, almost as holistic and homeopthic as I am, and we both agree that yellow is God's favorite color because of all the first flowers we see in spring and all the yellow flowers we end autumn with, and they happen to be the most known medicinally.

The only image I could find on the website to illustrate what I'm looking for. I'd rather have a longer bladed straight spine with a point, but the point is the priority

 

[Comprehensivist]

Hey Brian,

During my Fiddleback heyday between 2013 & 2016, my main theme was collecting various Shadetree burlap micartas in a rainbow of colors.

Back then there was no “yellow” color. I kept bugging Tod to make one and he finally did. He called it “Philellow” to either honor or rebuke me. It is a bright yellow that retains its color well.

Here is a photo of a Recluse with that burlap that I found on his website. It appears to still be available.

Here is a K.E. Bushie with Shadetree Starry Night burlap that I still have. It incorporates a combination of Philellow and Blue burlaps with glow chips that stands out in the wild quite well.

Perhaps one of these burlaps will meet your needs. If not, good luck with your search.

Phil

 

[Mistwalker]

Hey Brian,

During my Fiddleback heyday between 2013 & 2016, my main theme was collecting various Shadetree burlap micartas in a rainbow of colors.

Back then there was no “yellow” color. I kept bugging Tod to make one and he finally did. He called it “Philellow” to either honor or rebuke me. It is a bright yellow that retains its color well.

Here is a photo of a Recluse with that burlap that I found on his website. It appears to still be available.

Available on who's website?

 

[Mistwalker]

Perhaps one of these burlaps will meet your needs. If not, good luck with your search.

Phil

Thanks Phil! I remember that. That would be a great yellow, but oh I would totally love to do Stary Night with a lot of yellow for this! That would pop in the images so good!

 

[Mistwalker]

........ Duplicate post

 

[Comprehensivist]

Available on who's website?

Shadetreecustom “dot” com

 

[notajerryskid]

Oh man the stary night is so F'n COOL!

 

[Mistwalker]

Shadetreecustom “dot” com

He sells FF knives?

 

[bikerector]

That almost looks like yellow liners behind a natural G10. I've seen them do that with orange and blue and it gives a bit of a "frosted" or "ice" color/effect.

Here's an example from AA using black liners. He calls it "ghosted".



Here's an example from Bark river, natural jade g10 with yellow liners from their image gallery (I search the handle materials in a search engine and that looked close). The yellow of the kiner and thickness of the outer scale would affect that color.

 

[Crag the Brewer]

Just wood.....but I collected a couple small trees worth sumac. I cut these down up at my parents place the week my father passed....they were leaning against his barn roof eve and I wanted to help out. I personally love Osage too. When I was cutting them, I noticed their unique color. Lighter than Osage, but still very pretty.

It's a straight grain (so far) but the shimmer is unlike anything Ive seen. Maple has nice lines, but I think this Glows more, maybe.

I plan on chunking this up more, drying it more, then sending off to K&G, For stabilizing.

I'm sure I'll have more than I can use.
It will be awhile, but I could reach out
Idk if people will be interested in it?
I think it's cool looking. I'll definitely use it on some of Mine

Pics don't do it justice....it almost looks like the side of a fish, the way the scales shimmer and shine

 

[bikerector]

Here's a brighter looking version that looks closer to your handles in the OP.

 

[Comprehensivist]

He sells FF knives?

Hey Brian,

Your question made me realize that my choice of words in the above post could be interpreted two ways. Sorry for the confusion I caused.

When I said that it appears that Shadetree has “it” available, I was referring to the Philellow burlap blanks, not the actual Recluse knife shown in the photo. Rather than just showing photos of plain scale blanks, Shadetree liked to show photos of an actual maker’s or customer’s finished knives featuring their burlap to help potential customers better visualize their burlaps could look on “your” knife.

I have not talked to anyone at Shadetree Custom since I last saw them at the Blade Show in 2019. I just wanted to give you a lead to investigate for a yellow handle material that may interest you.

I imagine that Andy could be convinced to to make you a great knife with whatever yellow handle scale material you settle on since you have been his most consistent brand ambassador for as long as I have followed this sub forum.

Good luck with your project quest!

Phil

P.S. - I have to add a shout-out to NoRest as the other top Fiddleback brand ambassador. Thanks for tending the campfire during the slow years with interesting photos and comments about your Bushboots and other models.

 

[Fiddleback]

The new Canary Yellow is yellow as hell and stays yellow. It is linen, so not much porosity. Its lighter and warmer than G10. I love it.

 

[David Mary]

Back then there was no “yellow” color. I kept bugging Tod to make one and he finally did. He called it “Philellow” to either honor or rebuke me.

...but Jade with yellow liners.... sounds brilliant. Gonna have to try that.

 

[abraves]

The new Canary Yellow is yellow as hell and stays yellow. It is linen, so not much porosity. Its lighter and warmer than G10. I love it.

I think this one is the canary yellow. It is bright and I love it.

 

[Mistwalker]

The new Canary Yellow is yellow as hell and stays yellow. It is linen, so not much porosity. Its lighter and warmer than G10. I love it.

That's what I needed to hear, and now what I hope to find in the near future.

Hey Brian,
I imagine that Andy could be convinced to to make you a great knife with whatever yellow handle scale material you settle on since you have been his most consistent brand ambassador for as long as I have followed this sub forum.

Good luck with your project quest!

Phil

Thanks Phil, I appreciate the kind words and the suggestions. But I did take a break for a while, from essentially everything except my daughter.

Because for a few years, few years ago, from the summer of 2019 into the winter of 2021, my life was in such a state of flux and destruction I couldn't even understand what was happening. As God had finally lost patience with me, with my being caught up in myself and my own egotistical arogance, my name in the industries of cutlery and survival, and my desperately trying to save a marriage to a woman who literally lived every single reason God gives as being acceptable for divorce and moving on.

And one by one everything superfluous and unmeaningful elements of my life, were torn away, until finally there were no more destractions to hold me back, and I could finally see what he had been trying to show me since 2009, when Andy and I first met.

It was then that I finally realized he did not make me the photographer I am or the designer I am so I could make pathetically small amounts of money selling hours-long blocks of my life, and huge chunks of my soul, to millionaires for pennies so they could make more thousands of dollars off of what God had given me freely.

He made me the designer and problem solver I am, so that I could recognize the brilliant intelligence of the designs of our creation in the macro images I take and edit on large monitors. And he gave me the eyes I have, and made me the photographer I am. so that I could see and capture the physical evidence of the amazing intelligence in the creation that sounds me every day.

I tried to make an earnest start at the plant ID project here on Blade Forums that I'm wanting to get back to in 2015 the first spring after returning from Michigan, after fooling myself into thinking my marriage had been saved. Boy was I wrong, but boy did she make it easy and innexpensive with no lawyers needed...long story.

And I screwed up and let all,the mockery from all the ungodly trolls in the W&SS section push me away from that section, and so I started it here in Andy's forum, but that wasn't enough reach, and it took a while to realize I'm not doing this for money, or to please anyone earthly. The more I quit worrying about money and pleasing man, the less I need money and the more peaceful my life has become. So I'm just going to keep going that route.

Anyway, back then I started with an Osage Bush Hermit, and I loved how the yellow and spalting popped in the pics,

but with all the distractions of a indescribeably toxic marriage, and an insanely toxic career in the weapons industry, and the ridiculous expectations of lying, hoop jumping, and butt kissing in the magazine industry, with the industry being far more about marketing, no matter what, than any truths being told or shown. It was still hard for me to focus on anything important other than my daughter needing a better quality of life than I was providing,

So I cut ties with everything and everyone, but my daughters and God. And in 2020 I finally saw the truth, hit my knees in a field, and gave my life to Christ. And since that time, for the last 5 years, my life has continually improved.

So now I am working on this same project two ways, if I can land the right Fiddleback. One is through a website I am building and a book I am working on, using a couple of knives by someone who has become a dear friend, a Bible schollarly mentor, a Bible study partner, and the most devout man of God I have ever had the priviledge of meeting.

And in the W&SS section here on Blade Forums, no longer worrying about how many likes I get or responses, as I have learned most of the people I am trying to reach have been mocked into going quiet by all the ungodly @$$hole trolls that used to hang out in the W&SS section and mock and ridicule the guys who used to try to teach wilderness skills, as well as anyone who tried to learn them. As I have grown beyond the reach of such @$$holes and nolonger even bother reading all their posts.

Because this project isn't between any man and I, it's between God and I. And I no longer concern myself with the opinions of trolls. The owner of BF likes my content, as do the mods I'm friends with, and they and the silent ones who just want to learn, and God, are all that ,matter to me as I finally get back to this after so many delays.

And LOL, I say all of that to say, to explain this, I don't want this knife to have the pressure of being a commisioned piece, I want it to be something Andy made purely because he wanted to make it and loved what he was doing. Because that's the sort of energy I want in this piece. AND I don't want the handle to start yellow and turn orange. So I think Canary yellow it will need to be, and if I don't start on it till the end of this year, I'll be fine. I'm just not sweating timelines, or anything else for that matter, anymore.
~Brian