Thinking of dying the G10 on my Benchmade 162

[jprime84]

The scales are a strange blue green color that I am not a fan of. I am thinking about just dying them black with Rit dye like I have read about. However, the scales are glued onto the blade. Would I be at risk of damaging the heat treat by dying them in boiling dye while still attached to the knife? I would probably just put the handle into the dye and not the whole knife.

 

[Ernie1980]

Boiling water will not hurt your heat treat, it is not hot enough. I have used boiling liquids in the past to force a patina on my blades with no issue.

 

[jprime84]

Its boiling away right now - dark brown is what they had so thats what I am using. Will post pics.

 

[hiwa]

Interested how this turns out. I have 6 162's. Don't mind the green G-10 though . Kind of grew on me.

 

[jprime84]

Well I couldnt get the brown to stick. However, I turned the teal green into more of a gray.

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After an hour of boiling dye - the izula handles went in for only 20 seconds or so. The linen micarta soaked it right up.

 

[loonybin]

The underlying color will affect what color you end up with. Brown over green will not end up brown. I used some Cherry Red dye on my grey/black Rift scales and ended up with maroon and black. Kelly Green (bright true green) over the grey/black Rift scales ended up being dark hunter green.

That being said, your knife looks great!

 

[hiwa]

Looks pretty good . I may have to try that. I might just try straight black.