Custom Dyed GEC’s by Nathan & Travis

[Travman]

Here is the knife after being dyed with Golden brown several times. Before:

After:

 

[Travman]

 

[Travman]

One more picture of the blue 94. This might be the most uniform dye job that I have done. You really cannot know how the bone will absorb the dye. I probably dyed this one 20 times trying to get it darker and more uniform.

 

[Travman]

This video was from the start of the purple Rough Ryder experiment. This is right after the first application of the dye.

This picture was after a few more applications of the purple dye.

So far this RR bone absorbs the dye very easily compared to the GEC’s that I have worked on. Also, this one absorbs the dye in a much more mottled pattern.

 

[Travman]

Here it is after a few more applications. I could have left it alone, but this one is a give-away experiment so I went for a more uniform look.

 

[glennbad]

A DRASTIC improvement on that one, nice work!

 

[Amir Fleschwund]

Sorry I missed this thread before asking dye questions in the orher thread.

Now that I know it’s not RIT, and it working with lacquer made me look at stewmac.com, a lutheir’s supplier. Both Mixol and ColorTone sound like they’d work. And I have some of those…
Also have a bottle of potassium permanganate. I think that might be a secret ingredient in Redbone??

 

[Travman]

Worked on this GEC Canoe recently. I thought the orginal dye was looking washed out. This happens with time and use. Before:

Nothing radical. Just added some brown color. After:

 

[glennbad]

Another definite improvement!

 

[Travman]

Here is the latest job done on a white bone knife. Nathing dyed this Pemberton orange. I think it turned out well with a nice deep and even color.

 

[glennbad]

Wow, that took the dye nicely!

 

[Travman]

We could have left this one alone, but I thought it looked slightly washed out. Wanted something that looked older. Before:

Here is an update on the H30 Jigged Frontier bone knife. I have worked on it some more with good results. I applied a mixture or black and brown dye in the valleys of the jigged bone. I have also dyed the entire bone handle with more Golden brown.

 

[Travman]

It took Nathan’s skills to get this knife to be truly orange. I could never get it to his level. Here is an earlier picture after I had tried dyeing it orange.

Another picture of the recently orange dyed Pemberton. I like when the sunlight hits it from the side and you can see how deep the dye goes into the bone.

 

[Travman]

Thanks again Nathan for a stunning orange dye job on this Pemberton. I think it looks better now than it did a few weeks ago. I think the dye has settled into bone even better now.

 

[Travman]

This one dye job was subtle. I added more red to get rid of the original orange.

 

[Travman]

This one was recently dyed by me. Previously, it had cream colored edges and a brownish top side. Now it’s more of a uniform reddish color on all sides.

Here is what it looked like before:

 

[Travman]

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[Travman]

I drove down to my brother-in-law’s house yesterday. We worked on this Blade Forums 91 large stockman, a carbon steel Case stockman, and my 39 Rendezvous knife while we watched the football games. All three knives are coming along nicely. The bone that GEC uses does have a fair amount of oil in it. That is a good thing, however, often it requires a little bit of heat to move that oil out so that the bone can absorb dye evenly. We are trying for a deep red color on the two stockman knives.

Before picture:

It takes time, but now we’re getting closer to what we want to see. We are not done yet. It may take a few more days to get this one just right.

 

[Travman]

Round 2 for this knife. We are adding more purple to the previously dyed 39 giraffe bone Rendezvous knife. We are trying for a deeper and more even color.

Before:

 

[Matt_WY]

I drove down to my brother-in-law’s house yesterday. He worked on this Blade Fourms large stockman and two other others while we watched the football games. It’s coming along nicely. The bone that GEC uses does have a fair amount of oil in it. That is a good thing, however, often it requires a little bit of heat to kind of move that oil out so that the bone can absorb evenly. We are trying for a deep red color.

Before picture:

It takes time, but now we’re getting closer to what we want to see. We are not done yet. It may take a few more days to get this one just right.

That’s a nice improvement on the forum knife!