Scrimshaw ink bleeding

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Mountainwind

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I have a scrimshaw knife that the handles on one side are almost purple, even tho some of the bleeding, is not near the scrimshaw. OR... I should say, the scrimshaw may be at one end, but the purple is all along the edge and mainly on the other end. Is this common? I have read that bleeding happens and is not uncommon.
Personally. I kinda like the effect, even tho it may hurt any value of it.
 
It sounds like your knife was in contact with something purple! A knife roll? Post a picture for better opinions!!!
 
I will asume it is a Schrade, was it always like this? if so the procedure for machine scriming was to use a hot die machine with a colored ribbon ( like a tape ) in between the knife handle and die the hot die then touch the handle imprinting and scoring the handle. As you can imagine as with any machine jam ups ect there was over printing under printing and all kinds of mistakes possible. If teo much color was used sometimes bleeding would occur also double stampings you name it basicly a printing procedure just imaging what can go wrong with a printing press and pretty much you have the same spectrum. Usually these to not help the value and are considered seconds. However if you find an oddball collector who likes this kind of thing who knows??? LT
 
Here is a pic of it, bleeding was not as I remembered, but here it is anyway.
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You can put some paste wax over the scrimshaw every now and then to insure that it does not bleed and help keep the ink in the design.
 
bettejo,
Welcome to the Schrade Forum.
I don't think the ink will continue to run long after the knife is made. At least under normal circumstances. It is just ink applied to a hot stamp impression in the plastic (Derlin).

Dale
 
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