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glassjaw said:
I too am interested in the fix. That really was poor quality control.
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To be fair, I did talk with Case and they would take it back and replace the bone with some that matched better. I'm actually not going that route though. It's going to be a little bit before it's done, but I will update with pictures when it is.
 
I was going to start a thread tonight, but this looks like the perfect place. I did a tea soak on my case stockman and did a before, 2 day, and tonight with be the 4 day picture.

Picture quality sucks. I snapped a quick before pic as almost an afterthought, and then used the same lighting for the 2 day pic. So tonights pic won't be of any better quality. But it does show how much it changes from soaking in cold tea.

***edit*** I wish I had taken pics of both sides, because the backside seems to be taking on a much better color from the tea.

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After 48 hours:
 
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Nice Maverick299! When you get a chance, take a better snap of that knife now. I'd like to see it in good light.

Other than a few examples (arizonaranchman's 6375), I've not been drawn to the Case Amberbone, but I get a few because there are so few options in CV steel. I'm very interested in dyeing some of those knives!
 
Woodrow F Call said:
Nice Maverick299! When you get a chance, take a better snap of that knife now. I'd like to see it in good light.

Other than a few examples (arizonaranchman's 6375), I've not been drawn to the Case Amberbone, but I get a few because there are so few options in CV steel. I'm very interested in dyeing some of those knives!
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Will do. She is still sitting in the tea right now and tonight will be 96 hours. I plan on calling it good when I get home from work. I will clean it up real good and get some better pics.
 
Maverick299 said:
Will do. She is still sitting in the tea right now and tonight will be 96 hours. I plan on calling it good when I get home from work. I will clean it up real good and get some better pics.
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Lots of mineral oil will be good when you are done. Might even soak it in for a day. I get mine at Walgreens.
 
Maverick299 said:
Thanks for the tip.........but what does the mineral oil do for it? Stabilize the color or just for lubrication and protectant?
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Food safe lubrication and protectant. It'll need to get good and in the joints after sitting in water for so long. Probably good for the bone too.
 
Woodrow F Call said:
Food safe lubrication and protectant. It'll need to get good and in the joints after sitting in water for so long. Probably good for the bone too.
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Awesome. I have always wondered about that because I use a Slip 2000 (really good gun oil btw) to oil the joints of my knives but have always wondered how much of it I was eating! :) I figured the damage from my youthful years was done so a little oil can't make me any stupider, right?
 
Maverick299 said:
Awesome. I have always wondered about that because I use a Slip 2000 (really good gun oil btw) to oil the joints of my knives but have always wondered how much of it I was eating! :) I figured the damage from my youthful years was done so a little oil can't make me any stupider, right?
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:D I'm always cutting food up with mine. Apples and Tomatoes are often cut at work as I don't like to eat a apple that isn't at least quartered and I like tomatoes to be freshly cut when I eat them..... plus they don't leak as much juice over everything.
 
Here she is after a 96 hour soak. I don't see a lot of difference between 48 and 96. Not as dark as I would have liked, but a vast improvement from where it started.


 
Thanks. Those colors look interesting. I wonder how well it would take a red or green or something?
 
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If we're posting our tea soaked amber bone knives:

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I soaked it in loose leaf Black Ceylon for about half a day.
 
Woodrow F Call said:
Nice. How did the blades turn out?
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The blades stayed dry. I set the knife up in a cup with the blades open, with the tea just short of the joint, to avoid any rusting issues. The patina you see in the after pic is from cutting fruit.
 
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