Stag Saturday - Let's See Some Traditional Stag!

My first (and only) Knife, 53 years old (the knife 1971), I was in my late 20s, (27 in '71); and now I'm 80!!

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Black-Tail spike, on Vancouver Island, with recycled steel from a logger's cross-cut saw!!
Brass nailed sheath!! Brazing rod pins!!
Here's what I looked like! :oops: Charlie young 1.jpg
 
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kyhunt said:
I don’t want to hijack the thread but is there a link anywhere on dying knives? I have one or two I wouldn’t mind experimenting with.
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Here’s a couple of threads on dye

Camillus

How To Thread 'Using hydrogen peroxide to change a knife color'

I have previously posted about how to use a 6% hydrogen peroxide solution to change the color of bone. I thought I would show you guys another example.

So here is the previous example. I had a muddy-looking Cougar clawed bone 74 that I didn’t care for, and I used the hydrogen peroxide to take the color out. I dyed this one red using RIT dye, using the standard dye method of immersing it in a liquid solution.

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At Christmas I bought a bunch of 92s intending to give them out as Christmas presents to family. But one was a funny color and I decided to fix...
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Travman

Thread 'Custom Dyed GEC’s by Nathan & Travis'

I’m so happy with the dye job on these two GEC’s. I have always loved deep red dyed bone on a pocket knife. However, many red bone GEC’s tend to lean towards pink. I have tried dyeing knives in the past, but was always discouraged by the corrosive action of dyes like RIT. These two knives were dyed by my Bro-in-law. He uses an industrial lacquer based dye that is non-corrosive and does an excellent job of penetrating deeply and not leaching out. I’m excited because I have often turned down red GEC’s because of the white to pink edges around the bolsters. We should be able to fix that issue...
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fishin1635 said:
Here’s a couple of threads on dye

Camillus

How To Thread 'Using hydrogen peroxide to change a knife color'

I have previously posted about how to use a 6% hydrogen peroxide solution to change the color of bone. I thought I would show you guys another example.

So here is the previous example. I had a muddy-looking Cougar clawed bone 74 that I didn’t care for, and I used the hydrogen peroxide to take the color out. I dyed this one red using RIT dye, using the standard dye method of immersing it in a liquid solution.

QXUgMVy.jpg


At Christmas I bought a bunch of 92s intending to give them out as Christmas presents to family. But one was a funny color and I decided to fix...
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Travman

Thread 'Custom Dyed GEC’s by Nathan & Travis'

I’m so happy with the dye job on these two GEC’s. I have always loved deep red dyed bone on a pocket knife. However, many red bone GEC’s tend to lean towards pink. I have tried dyeing knives in the past, but was always discouraged by the corrosive action of dyes like RIT. These two knives were dyed by my Bro-in-law. He uses an industrial lacquer based dye that is non-corrosive and does an excellent job of penetrating deeply and not leaching out. I’m excited because I have often turned down red GEC’s because of the white to pink edges around the bolsters. We should be able to fix that issue...
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Thank you 👍
 
lambertiana said:
We don’t see this one often enough.
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Thank you, but this is ironic...soon after posting the pic I decided to check over the Ohta. What happened? It seized me inflicting a very nasty deep cut :eek: Fortunately, I heal very quickly (probably blood too thick and sludge-like...)

I can draw one conclusion from this (apart from not messing about with knives one handed...) Half-Stop knives like the Ohta are certainly worse for being bitten by than cam-tang knives o_O;) Once that loaded half-stop thuds home...🤣🤬
 
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