Dyed my amber bone case stockman

[SVTFreak]

Before (yeah I was halfway through when I remember to take pics.

After

Did the fiebings route with fiebings pro leather dye in mahogany. First I washed and scrubbed it with dawn. Used a q tip. Applied 3 heavy coats and baked at 175 for 8 min (lowest my oven goes). Cleaned it up and wasn’t enough for me. So I did 3 more. This time I heated the knife, then painted on. Then baked 8 min. Did that 3 times. Polished it up with some aluminum and chrome polish I have which took off all the excess dye. Still getting some bleed out a little so I’m gonna let it sit overnight and see what happens. Overall, quite happy with the color. I’d prefer a little more amber color than brown but not sure how to formulate amber with these dyes lol.

 

[Rufus1949]

Before (yeah I was halfway through when I remember to take pics.

After

Did the fiebings route with fiebings pro leather dye in mahogany. First I washed and scrubbed it with dawn. Used a q tip. Applied 3 heavy coats and baked at 175 for 8 min (lowest my oven goes). Cleaned it up and wasn’t enough for me. So I did 3 more. This time I heated the knife, then painted on. Then baked 8 min. Did that 3 times. Polished it up with some aluminum and chrome polish I have which took off all the excess dye. Still getting some bleed out a little so I’m gonna let it sit overnight and see what happens. Overall, quite happy with the color. I’d prefer a little more amber color than brown but not sure how to formulate amber with these dyes lol.

Great job. It's amazing how it changes the look. I have put Ren wax on afterwards...no bleeding.

 

[DennisM]

Nice job SVTFreak

I have a set of natural micarta scales I am going to try the fiebings pro leather dye trick with. I want a funky unique color and I am hoping my experiment doesn't end up producing a mustardy baby sh!t color set of scales.

 

[SVTFreak]

Great job. It's amazing how it changes the look. I have put Ren wax on afterwards...no bleeding.

Thanks for that tip. I’ll have to try that.

 

[The Fort]

Before (yeah I was halfway through when I remember to take pics.

After

Did the fiebings route with fiebings pro leather dye in mahogany. First I washed and scrubbed it with dawn. Used a q tip. Applied 3 heavy coats and baked at 175 for 8 min (lowest my oven goes). Cleaned it up and wasn’t enough for me. So I did 3 more. This time I heated the knife, then painted on. Then baked 8 min. Did that 3 times. Polished it up with some aluminum and chrome polish I have which took off all the excess dye. Still getting some bleed out a little so I’m gonna let it sit overnight and see what happens. Overall, quite happy with the color. I’d prefer a little more amber color than brown but not sure how to formulate amber with these dyes lol.

Looks great! I have to get up the nerve to try this one day! Lance

 

[TOM K.]

Looks great, much better! I did the Fiebings route also after I almost destroyed a knife doing the Rit dye process, instant rust! This 15 was an off colored white bone that wasn’t very even. Looks better in person.

 

[Scubaroo]

Thanks for the reminder! I plan on dyeing mine this afternoon with scarlet red RIT dye.
The mahogany looks great!

 

[SVTFreak]

Thanks for the reminder! I plan on dyeing mine this afternoon with scarlet red RIT dye.
The mahogany looks great!

I think I’m gonna do my chestnut collab WT now that I know it came out. Hopefully it’ll maintain a little of the red/pink/orangeish color to the mahogany.

Also gonna do my antique peach seed WT case with the threaded bolsters lol. I like deeper dye than those have. I might do my forum 91 also but I don’t know what color. I don’t think I want them all mahogany.

 

[JM2]

Thanks for sharing. I dyed a Case 6.575 with Rit dye and I got a few rust spots. I didn't care for that, but it was a working knife - https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/my-dyed-bonestag-case-stockman.1814410/

 

[SVTFreak]

Thanks for sharing. I dyed a Case 6.575 with Rit dye and I got a few rust spots. I didn't care for that, but it was a working knife - https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/my-dyed-bonestag-case-stockman.1814410/

I did a GEC green bone one with rit to get it a little darker and has some spots start to show also so I stopped. I might get some green fiebings and darken it up a little more now that I’ve tried this trick.

Gonna darker my case bose WT that’s chestnut but a bit light colored soon.

 

[Murphy Slaw]

You guys are good.

 

[SVTFreak]

You guys are good.

No, I only learned from watching others. But thanks!

 

[Ironbut]

I wanted to tone this one down a little bit. One coat of Fiebings dark brown, cured for about 20 minutes a few inches above the wood stove.
Before:

After:

 

[Rufus1949]

I wanted to tone this one down a little bit. One coat of Fiebings dark brown, cured for about 20 minutes a few inches above the wood stove.
Before:
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After:
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Seems to give it an aged look.

 

[SVTFreak]

I wanted to tone this one down a little bit. One coat of Fiebings dark brown, cured for about 20 minutes a few inches above the wood stove.
Before:
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After:
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That came out great!

 

[Ironbut]

That came out great!

Thanks. The pic's not all that great. It looks better in person. I'll get a better one later.

 

[Ironbut]

It's a dreary day, but here's little better pic of the dye job.

 

[SVTFreak]

Did my chestnut trapper today. It was quite red before, some areas bordering on pinkish orange. I much prefer this. Fiebings mahogany dye.

 

[Jsega51]

SVTFreak the WT really took on a nice deeeeep color, looks killer now.

 

[SVTFreak]

SVTFreak the WT really took on a nice deeeeep color, looks killer now.

Yeah it took it pretty good. Im quite pleased with it! Carried today and it still stained the bottom of my pocket just a little bit so I’m sure it’ll lighten up some with time.