Attention Select Your Favorite Brown Tone for Sawcut Bone!!

Brown Tone Options - (alphabetical)

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hhmoore said:
Just out of curiosity, does this mean we could get to the end of this with hemlock green winning by a landslide, and GEC could nix that option?
If so, and that happens, would we default to the #2 choice?

Thank you, btw, for the shorter poll. Between that and the distraction of looking for a new wallet, I should be able to stick with this one:thumbsup:
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I was thinking the very same thing. Although, if I recall correctly in past forum knife discussions, dye choices were only limited to what has been used before. In essence, Bill wasn't going to create a brand new color for us but most dyes they have used in the past were fair game.

It would be nice to get some clarification on this though.
 
I think I saw a question about the size of an 86, so here are a few comparison shots while we wait in case others are unfamiliar.

The frame is a little longer than a 77, similar to how a 77 is a little longer than a 15. (Oof! Sawcut Osage on an 86 would have rocked!) 15, 86, 77…

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The 93 and 38 are a smidge longer still. 86, 38, 93…

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But probably the most impressive dimension is the thickness, being very close to a 2-blade 77. It’s a thic boi!

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The barlow bolster will take up some real estate, but this will be a large slab of sawcut. I imagine the sawcut could come out slightly thinner than the ebony due to flat slabs.
 
The hemlock is red in the same way the the copperhead/antique/chestnut are yellow.


about the name, the jigging on the hemlock goes a long way to giving the color its name. The jigging mimics the appearance of the bark of the tree, with the edges showing what is just below the bark, the reddish tenting. Meanwhile, the bark (the jigging) is a greenish/brownish/reddish color. More green in the bark area, more lively it is. At least this is how i see it.
 
I was hoping for this to be a light sepia color. Sepia barlows do exist obviously but i wanted this on such a larger frame. Same can be said for the copperhead and such, if you really want a copperhead barlow, you can buy one eventually. Secondly i thought the dark brew would be extremely nice too but it is a new color and we may see it more in the future.

Hemlock may be our best choice for many involved. You wanted wood? This is named for a tree. You wanted green? Its called hemlock green after all. You wanted red? This has redness at the bolsters. You wanted brown? Well it IS in the brown poll afterall.
 
Hemlock is my least favorite of these options, but any of them (including hemlock) will probably look great. I might change my vote late in the poll if it would help put anything over 50% - I'd kind of like it if at least one of these polls ends with a majority win, even if it's not my favorite choice.
 
I feel like the color undertones on hemlock green will come out nice. Much like you see the yellow near the bolsters on some of the examples posted, should see some nice color tones on the Hemlock. Most the other colors are done fairly regularly. Hopefully we can get something that hasn't been done before - hemlock green sawcut.
 
hhmoore said:
Just out of curiosity, does this mean we could get to the end of this with hemlock green winning by a landslide, and GEC could nix that option?
If so, and that happens, would we default to the #2 choice?

Thank you, btw, for the shorter poll. Between that and the distraction of looking for a new wallet, I should be able to stick with this one:thumbsup:
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Funny, I took it to mean depending on how Bill chose to finish a sawcut using the hemlock dye palette.

I agree with you and Dylan that some clarification would be welcomed!
 
Maybe it’s just the lighting, but the hemlock posted in this post:
ddavis said:
A few more Hemlock pics, compared to a Case in Chestnut.
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Looks very similar to the blood red posted in this post:
Pàdruig said:
I thought it might be a useful exercise to post examples where the same dye has been used for both sawcut and jigged bone. For example, if you have a knife with copperhead sawcut and copperhead jigged, or antique yellow sawcut and antique yellow jigged, post a side by side comparison picture.

It may not be an exact science but it will give us a bit of informed speculation with regards to an unknown being rendered in Sawcut. Just a thought on my part.

My contribution will be a blood red jigged next to a blood red sawcut.

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Does that mean that the sawcut hemlock will come out looking very much like the blood red saw cut above?

Also, that chestnut Case is some of my favorite, so the similarities are promising, but I’m still voting for Copperhead.
 
Tyson A Wright said:
Hemlock is my least favorite of these options, but any of them (including hemlock) will probably look great. I might change my vote late in the poll if it would help put anything over 50% - I'd kind of like it if at least one of these polls ends with a majority win, even if it's not my favorite choice.
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Hemlock has a good shot at getting over 50%. Don't be a Hemlock Hater, be a Hemlock Helper!
 
Copperhead was my choice, as it is always a winning color. We've never seen Hemlock Green Sawcut Bone, and so that's kind of adventurous. I don't like Hemlock nearly as much as Copperhead, but I won't be upset if it wins (and looks very well like it may with that kind of lead). However I will be elated if there's a surge in Copperhead votes or if people who chose other colors switch to Copperhead and bring it forward in the race.
 
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