Attention Select Your Favorite Brown Tone for Sawcut Bone!!

[Ernie1980]

Hemlock is not a bad option, I agree that it is different! I am sticking with dark brew for now because that is what I really like, but unique is a plus.

 

[screened porch]

Pardon me Charles but how did hemlock sneak its way in to the browns....by masquerading as green but really being red so as to confuse the punters ? Dont get me wrong ...i like hemlock green....its just that...Dash it all its not brown.

It looks brown to me.

Most definitely looks shades of brown to me

Me too. Funny name for it.

 

[Pàdruig]

Hemlock is not a bad option, I agree that it is different! I am sticking with dark brew for now because that is what I really like, but unique is a plus.

I like that dark brewed bone - I have one of those 83s on the way. I haven’t looked into it but I don’t think that is a commonly used color either?

 

[AnW]

Count me as Another Hemlock - I mean what Pennsylvania boy doesn’t love hemlock?!?

 

[akaMatt]

This thread should probably be “Attention”-ed like the other polls, so it visible in the same way for anybody looking for an alert. Not sure how that gets done…

 

[waverave]

A few for now. If anyone has photos of the other shades (in sawcut bone) that would be very helpful
Tan

Copperhead

Sepia

Chestnut

 

[danno50]

I voted sepia, but any of the choices will make a knice knife.

 

[Nature Boy]

A few for now. If anyone has photos of the other shades (in sawcut bone) that would be very helpful
Tan
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Copperhead
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Sepia
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Antique Yellow

 

[joeradza]

Let's hear it for Darren waverave

 

[Leslie Tomville]

Thanks for giving the correct background story on Hemlock Sabercat and Texoma . Did Bill Howard explain why he calls it Hemlock “Green?”

 

[Tyson A Wright]

A few for now. If anyone has photos of the other shades (in sawcut bone) that would be very helpful
Tan
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Copperhead
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Sepia
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Thanks for making the mockups!

One question, though - aren't the pins likely to be brass, not nickel silver, given that it will have brass liners? I seem to recall that all the brass-lined GECs I've owned or seen have brass pins (except in the bolsters).

-Tyson

 

[waynorth]

Pardon me Charles but how did hemlock sneak its way in to the browns....by masquerading as green but really being red so as to confuse the punters ? Dont get me wrong ...i like hemlock green....its just that...Dash it all its not brown.

Excuse me folks, but I have it on good authority, that red dye and brown dye, when co-mingled, make Brown!! SWFK is an accomplished artist and professor, and assures me this is so!! She has schooled me on these very basic tenets over the years, and I'll have you know we are still married!!!

I had a Hemlock Green #66... Looked mostly Dark Brown with "maybe" a hint of Red at the bolsters.
As far as I know, it was only used on these Stockman knives... not sure how it would look on Saw Cut. (not my picture)

 

[GE Jr]

Another shot of a GEC 66 in Hemlock Green...

 

[BDubbs]

Voted for copperhead but man that jigged hemlock looks good….i might be switching. I can’t say I’d be disappointed with any of the options, it’s gonna be a great knife.

 

[Leslie Tomville]

Here is a good side by side comparison of the two leading colors. It is red versus brown all over again!

Brown bone voters don’t get caught sleeping. Consider coming together around one shade of brown. Otherwise you run the risk of splitting your vote and turning this into a runaway victory for red. Regardless of what the poll says, this is a contest between Copperhead and Hemlock.

Antique Yellow and Chestnut does not have a chance, although it is a gorgeous color and is my preference. They are the same color with different names, and you cannot win if you split your votes like that. Same for Sepia and Tan. It is the same basic color, splitting the vote.

It looks like red might be unbeatable given the structure of the poll.

Hemlock is not a vibrant red Iike Blood Red. It is very dark in real life. A Sawcut version might look like Delrin. But I will be hopeful. It might be nice. Of course, I know that Copperhead Sawcut is one of the best colors of them all.

 

[Texoma]

Hemlock looks great jigged, I don't think GEC has ever done Hemlock in sawcut, maybe this will be the first, Hemlock it is, my vote is in

 

[GE Jr]

Not sawcut, but is this a close enough similarity to get an idea of how the Barlow's Hemlock color might fade to reddish at the bare end?

 

[mcc850]

+1 for hemlock. Let’s make this thing unique.

 

[Elgatodeacero]

I don’t understand how a red/green makes it into the brown color poll?!

Chestnut looks the best to my eyes.

 

[Sabercat]

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I pulled these images off the internet under Poison Hemlock. I believe the reddish purple parts is what Bill Howard was trying to capture with the dye. I really don’t know what to think of it in Sawcut Bone. The anti-reds certainly won’t like it.

Bill explained to me that the red in the dye color is based off of the reddish wood just under the bark of the Eastern Hemlock (our state tree). The knives came out a bit darker, but I can see the similarities.