Green Micarta

Psyop · Mar 11, 2013

I got some dark green rit dye added a little dark brown and dyed some micarta. I heated it up and put the micarta in for 5 mins at a time until I liked how it looked. The full sized ones had been used some and were darker to start with, but the 17 looks great much better in hand than the picture. As others have said the micarta is a great addition to the knives and I put it on as many as I can.

tfields · Mar 11, 2013

i like the way that came out a dark green looks great!

dresnor · Mar 11, 2013

Those look great. Good job!

Does the dye come off on your hand at all?

Jeremy

mrn8 · Mar 11, 2013

That turned out really well! I still have some Dark Green I used on the plastic scales, so I'm glad to see this works.

Psyop · Mar 11, 2013

dresnor said:
Those look great. Good job!

Does the dye come off on your hand at all?

Jeremy

No it dosnt come off you put a little salt in the dye I guess that makes it set.

Psyop · Mar 11, 2013

mrn8 said:
That turned out really well! I still have some Dark Green I used on the plastic scales, so I'm glad to see this works.

The BK 17 still has the foliage liners I got from you the micarta is just a tad darker so you cant really tell it has them. Now I might need orange

OlDutch · Mar 11, 2013

Those look great, would go well with some OD green kydex

Hunter Sharp · Mar 11, 2013

Looks good! I need to give it a shot on of these days.

crimsonfalcon07 · Mar 11, 2013

How well do you think it would work on G10?

GarnetandBlack · Mar 11, 2013

Nice lookin results there.

I tried my hand at making some homemade micarta from scratch using a green denim material. maybe i shoulda just dyed some.... oh well, next time I'll get it right

Psyop · Mar 11, 2013

crimsonfalcon07 said:
How well do you think it would work on G10?

I dont know if g10 takes dye. I think MRN8 was going to try that on an esee

LeandroBRA · Mar 11, 2013

Psyop, i really enjoyed was how the splints knifes! Great!

Nsvens89 · Mar 12, 2013

Psyop said:

That is all kinds of fine looking. What kind of patina do you have on that? Is it a light coat of gun blue? I like it.

trailbum · Mar 12, 2013

That looks great.

summit2g · Mar 12, 2013

Yeah looks awesome bro !

Enluzenment · Mar 12, 2013

Looks really good. I like the dark green RIT. I had my 9 dyed with that and yellow liners a while ago, pre-strip. I just recently did my eleven in it but I sanded it down a little with 800 grit to get the brown to show through a little, I like the two tone circles pattern.

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Psyop · Mar 12, 2013

Nsvens89 said:
That is all kinds of fine looking. What kind of patina do you have on that? Is it a light coat of gun blue? I like it.

I do my patinas with a little kitchen use. I dont do vinegar or mustard or any of that. Potatoes and onions mostly. The 15 and 5 are much darker because I use them all the time. The 17 was just used enough in the kitchen to get a patina going.

mattchibi · Mar 12, 2013

The machax (if that is a 4 in the second pic) is really cool because you can see the brown showing through the dark green on the micarta. Really like that, aced it!

Diez Knives · Mar 13, 2013

Not sure this will work but I got some leather stain on my micarta handles and it stained it pretty good, I just don't know if it will wear off...

Psyop · Mar 13, 2013

The 710 said:
Not sure this will work but I got some leather stain on my micarta handles and it stained it pretty good, I just don't know if it will wear off...

Haha I did that to my Esee 6 I was thinking about dying the whole handle so it looks better.