Attention Select Your Favorite Brown Tone for Sawcut Bone!!

[Texoma]

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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.

from past post I don't think it's poison hemlock, it's the tree, here's an old post where a member talked with Bill

I asked Bill Howard about this particular color, and he assured me there was green in the dye. He pointed out that hemlocks are red just under the bark, and that's the reason for the red in the dye. Green and red would combine to make the primary brownish shade, but the red definitely sticks out along the bolsters.

 

[hornetguy]

I was originally for dark brewed, but I have an 83 coming in that color, and the copperhead pics swayed my vote. Copperhead it is.

 

[Bluemantra]

I like what I’m seeing of the Hemlock samples posted. My vote went Hemlock.

 

[mcc850]

Hemlock looks awesome. I bet it will look really cool in sawcut.

 

[waverave]

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

Yes most likely. At one point, that was up in the air. I'll replace the photos with brass pins

 

[Spaten]

I picked Dark-Brewed, but I don’t think there’s a wrong answer here.

 

[tinfoil hat timmy]

am I odd for not being able to tell the difference between one brown and another?

 

[Ramrodmb]

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.

shenanigans
But...Its the one Red that I do like

 

[Rhinofly]

Hemlock it is.

 

[Rockon75]

Wow, this is really tough.

A dye job like the original Abaliene Copperhead is a winner. But they have not been able to exactly replicate that color.

I think Sepia, for those that will pocket carry their knife, with time will end up a really nice looking ivory sawcut, with "valleys" being dark and "ridges" being polished white.

If the hemlock could be duplicated like the 66 run, we'll, that would be gorgeous. Imagine deep, rich colored "ridges" with red "valleys". Ridges giving way to red valleys as the corners are smoothed. I recommend copperhead a couple polls ago, but you all have shown me great potential with hemlock......

 

[waverave]

Just being honest here...but what I am seeing are a lot of very similar shades of brown. It seems like there are really only three choices here...
1. Tan/Sepia
2. Copperhead/Antique/Yellow
3. Something else...we are calling it hemlock but there really aren't a whole lot of shades of brown left to choose from. If we are talking about red then I'm not sure why red wasn't the winning color. The odds of variation from the factory are high either way.
A fourth option might some kind of dark brown/dark brew/whatever we want to call it...basically medium brown on dark brown.
I will do my best to mock up whatever you all want...it is more difficult without actual photos but I will do my best.

 

[Sacto]

Why do I feel like we’re going to have another close one with all the red voters going for hemlock and all the brown voters ultimately coming together for copperhead?

 

[abbydaddy]

Psst... I'll tell you a secret, I can't tell the difference either, except for Hemlock...

am I odd for not being able to tell the difference between one brown and another?

 

[pjsjr]

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

Chestnut looks the best to my eyes.

I don't know if this will help, but, red yellow and blue are the primary colors, green, orange and violet are secondary colors. Red and green(blue and yellow) mixed together makes a brown. Red and green are called complementary colors and are directly across from one another on the color wheel.

As you can see from the color wheels below mixing any complementary colors will give you a brownish color. It a depends on the amount of the primary color pigment used as to the shade of brown.

The first color wheel simplifies the theory, the bottom show how the addition of adjacent colors will change the shade.

I'm talking pigment as use in oil/watercolor paints, I don't know if the same applies to the dye used for bone. I hope this helps.

 

[hornetguy]

Why do I feel like we’re going to have another close one with all the red voters going for hemlock and all the brown voters ultimately coming together for copperhead?

I originally went for red, but copperhead is my choice of the browns....

Although, I wouldn't be upset if Hemlock won it. I had a 66 in Hemlock, but I've never seen it sawcut...

 

[Ernie1980]

Here is a great dark sawcut bone on a 70s era Case Barlow that I dug out of my knife box

https://imgur.com/a/xso58oI

 

[FreeState42]

** Not my picture **

 

[spyderg]

Can’t believe dark brewed is so far behind!?

 

[awjones]

Copperhead everything..

 

[Jiki]

I don't know if this will help, but, red yellow and blue are the primary colors, green, orange and violet are secondary colors. Red and green(blue and yellow) mixed together makes a brown. Red and green are called complementary colors and are directly across from one another on the color wheel.

As you can see from the color wheels below mixing any complementary colors will give you a brownish color. It a depends on the amount of the primary color pigment used as to the shade of brown.

The first color wheel simplifies the theory, the bottom show how the addition of adjacent colors will change the shade.

I'm talking pigment as use in oil/watercolor paints, I don't know if the same applies to the dye used for bone. I hope this helps.

Paint and dyes typically use the four axis color wheel with green being the fourth primary color.