Does this look like indigo to you?

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I bought this last year from Copper & Clad and thought I'd just let it slide but it's bothered me. It's their 112 Indigo blue knife. If you see the picture shown on their website the colors shown there is why I ordered one in the first place. You can see it below.



What I ended up getting was this instead. It's so hard to see any indigo or blue in it that you have to look real closely. Indigo is a shade of blue right? Does this look like indigo? Even my wife thought it was a shade of black when I first showed it to her. I shrugged it off. I mean it's well put together and fit feels like a custom, but it still bothered me enough that I probably won't buy again from C&C. What a disappointment.



I decided yesterday to put in an order for a custom from Buck's website to replace this one. Hope that one comes with an actual shade of blue instead.
 
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I just googled Indigo Blue.. There are many shades of blue shown.. So.. Yeah.. It looks like a shade of Indigo Blue.. JMO!!!:D John
 
Well, I am quite picky about colors. I use to teach art and if you went out and bought a tube of indigo paint (oil, acrylic, watercolor), you get a very distinctive shade of blue. That's the color I see on C&C's website. Mine does not look like what they advertise.
 
Indigo is a very dark shade of blue from what I understand; nice looking knife, I think, and I'm a big 112 fan.

C&C works hard to please Buck collectors and if you have an issue, I'm sure they would try and please or make right.


PS: I worked as a professional sign painter for 30 years (before computers took that trade over) and so am fairly color sensitive. I would be happy with that knife and if you would like to trade for another 112, I am open.
 
My indigo was lighter than yours but only on one side. The other side was black. Not a little black, black. Like you it bothered me so it sits in a drawer waiting to have its scales replaced. I personally think it should be dropped as a color. I've seen other complaints.

C&C did offer to exchange it at their cost but I didn't see it as their problem so I didn't send it back.
 
I find many of my died (bone) knives fade / get tighter with time. I assume the Buck is a form of Diamond wood so I can't say for sure about that.

Just two days ago I was looking at one of my Stockman red bone knives and thinking that it was starting to look more orange than deep red. That knife mostly sits in a drawer (doesn't see much direct sun light if ever).

Which brings us to my thoughts and comments :
My problem has always been that the knife I recieve has handle scales that look pale and fadded compared to the catalog photo which is rich and dark. I would enjoy a handle such as the dark one.

Indigo usually conjures up in my mind Indigo ink which is just like the dark one; deep,deep blue.

Perhaps if you store the knife in a sunny window when you aren't carrying it the color will lighten in months or so. When a die fades with time and sun light it is called fugitive. I wish most all of my died bone knives were not so fugitive. My favorite brown one has gotten very significantly lighter in a year or so and it to has seen almost no direct sun. I hate to think what it would look like if it had.
 
Here is a quote from Isaac Asimov, "It is customary to list indigo as a color lying between blue and violet, but it has never seemed to me that indigo is worth the dignity of being considered a separate color. To my eyes it seems merely deep blue."
 
Everyone sees colors different and the older you get the less light you see. Glasses only magnifies the light which makes you see better. I have an Indigo and it is a dark blue green, If I get it in the sunlight it's dark green no blue. I think that's what makes the color unique... Each one is different. If your scales don't match I would call the warranty dept at Buck and see what they say, it's a free phone call...
 
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its borderline. heavy dark compared to their pic.

wouldnt bother me but I can see it would bother some folks.
 
Definitely not what they pictured. I like it a lot, but it is not as advertised. I have two indigo blue knives and they look like copper and clads picture.
 
I think used a lot of light on it so as to show the grain of the wood... When has a picture of a knife look the same as it does in your hand??
 
I see some streaks of a lighter blue.

Were it mine, it probably wouldn't bother me. I think it is a good looking knife, and I would be proud to have one like it.
As it isn't mine, what I think really doesn't matter a whole lot. :)

I understand it is not what you expected, and can understand your disappointment.
Can C&C exchange it for one with lighter covers? Are they willing to do so?
 
I once had to buy model building materials for an architecture class. I went to a hardware store to look for an appropriate grit size sandpaper for the flat roof. When the old codger who owned the place gave me a sheet of a brown-colored sandpaper I asked if he had a gray one. He barked at me, "It don't come in designer colors, sonny."

Is this knife a fashion accessory?

(I just had to-o-o ... let it go-o-o-o --- John Lennon)
 
Another factor to consider is that wood varies in how it takes/accepts the dye.

I'm assuming that the wood(birch?) is dyed before it is laminated and epoxied. Not saying that you need to accept that knife...I would think C&C would do whatever to please you. Preston
 
It looks like Indigo to me. Its no different than any other wood species. There is always fluctuations in colors.
 
I still think the color on mine is completely off. Here's one I found online from another user.



That's what it should have looked like. Oh well... some people get lucky. I know it's too late for a replacement from C&C (they have a 30 day window). I buy a lot of knives throughout the year and didn't start carrying this one until months later when I really started noticing it. I may plan to just sell it off. What gets me is that I emailed back and forth with them a few times before placing the order to make sure they hand picked a good one for me because I collect blue knives and I bought it to commemorate an event. It doesn't matter now. I have full confidence that the custom order I just placed for a blue knife, which should come in before Christmas, will be exactly what I was looking for.
 
Both of your pictures to me look like the color is almost the same. the lighting is different I think is what Im seeing.
 
I think it looks really nice. But it is much darker than advertised.

Maybe you should call Buck and tell them what your expectations are for your custom knife while they have it, just to be safe.
 
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