What is "tobacco bone"?

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I see a lot of knives with the handle described at "tobacco bone." I can't seem to find an explanation of what this means.

Thanks,
 
The knives you are seeing must be made by Rough Rider. That is a name they are using for one of their handle colors. It is a smooth bone handle dyed with sort of a tobacco brown color.

Most knife vendors come up with clever names for the colors that they use for their dyed bone handles. So that's all it is, a marketing name for a color.
 
I have a RR barlow in tobacco color and realy like that color and the acorn shield. Put together really well too I might add. Suprisingly so. I just have a real hard time carrying it with the "China" stamp and all........Came REALLY sharp, blades centered, snappy, seemingly well built. Got it as a gift so I keep it. It's purty.
 
It may be this one on my locking sodbuster. 3.5"/9cm approx

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For what its worth using the name Tobacco for that shade of brown is nothing new. I have seen guitars described as tobacco for as long as I can remember (in particular "tobacco burst") I dont have time to look now but it would not surprise me to learn other companys have used that description. That is one great looking sodbuster.
 
A rose by any other name. :D I like the color a lot. Willgoy's sod buster is beauty. Kind of reminds me of some of the Moore Makers you used to see.
Some of the old Southern face jug potters used a glaze on their face jugs called tobacco spit or tobacco juice, somewhat similar color.
 
Thanks Rob, it's a pretty knife and well made which given its modest price impressed me. Being a shadow kind of pattern, I don't think bone on sodbusters are suited to rough-house treatment as there are many pins that could crack..same with the pivot pin itself. But so far it's been fine and is darkening with use, the colour of this smooth bone is well worth having.

Regards, Will
 
I wonder if they think it looks like tobacco stain or tobacco leaf? I get a charge out of some of the descriptions they use for jigged bone like banana. The best part is when someone tells me my knife doesn't have the right scales because the banana jigging isn't correct. It's supposed to resemble a rotting banana. I would love to sit in a Case corporate meeting while they are trying to name the next new jig pattern an color. I'd have a redbone headache for sure.
 
Sure there's lots of creative names for handle materials and colors. Nothing compares to browsing the hardware store paint isles: "Do you want 'snowflake', or 'eggshell', or 'winter veranda'........?" "I was looking for 'white', but you don't have that."

tobacco:
 
Bet you really would have had a time with Case's "Peacock Appaloosa Bone" that was out in 2000-2001. Right now they have a Root Beer Jigged Bone family out, and not long ago there was a Winterbottom Jigged Ginger Ale bone. To my knowledge it has nothing to do with the flavor of the handles. :)
 
Yup, it's just another name. I've been looking for that illusive Case bone color called "Coffee Bean", and when I saw one at a gun and knife show, it looked as if it could have been called amber bone.
 
jc57 said:
Bet you really would have had a time with Case's "Peacock Appaloosa Bone" that was out in 2000-2001. Right now they have a Root Beer Jigged Bone family out, and not long ago there was a Winterbottom Jigged Ginger Ale bone. To my knowledge it has nothing to do with the flavor of the handles. :)
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Here's the Root-Beer Bone...nice stuff but I can't see the connexion with any drinks alcoholic or otherwise:D
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Thanks everyone. That makes sense - just a colour name used by one company. I do have a RR lockback canoe that I really like and carry all the time.
 
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