What kind of folder do you carry?

Non-magnetic Monday, grabbed my Sandrin Knives "Torino" in their Tungsten Carbide blade material šŸ˜Ž
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yoko said:
Naturally

Here's the clip side

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I think the show side darkened a bit more from this humid summer and being soaked in sweat during work lol

I have taken rubbing compound to that side of the blade because of tiny rust spots forming

(During summer)
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Mine is still very new. It was almost an off white color. I rubbed some mink oil on it to get the color you see in the picture. I gotta just use the shit out of it and be patient. Hopefully it will look like yours over time.
 
JACKMANDU said:
Mine is still very new. It was almost an off white color. I rubbed some mink oil on it to get the color you see in the picture. I gotta just use the shit out of it and be patient. Hopefully it will look like yours over time.
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You can darken it and improve water resistance (reduce its porosity) by rubbing it down with polymerized linseed oil. It's food safe, whereas boiled linseed oil contains toxic metallic drying agents.

When polymerized linseed oil dries it turns into this hard solid material. I use it on my axe handles and anything micarta.
 
carnifex knifeworks said:
You can darken it and improve water resistance (reduce its porosity) by rubbing it down with polymerized linseed oil. It's food safe, whereas boiled linseed oil contains toxic metallic drying agents.

When polymerized linseed oil dries it turns into this hard solid material. I use it on my axe handles and anything micarta.
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Thanks for the tip!
 
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Nothing catches my eye more than a very nice wood scales, and no Bog Oak has ever caught my eye more than this. Ancient bog oak is a marvel of nature and shouldn't really exist, but by some mysterious combination of chance and chemistry and biology... it does.

Very expensive milled lumber is cut to expose the long Medullary rays, called quarter sawn lumber. Only a small fraction of that even has most of the area covered in the rays. It's exceptionally rare that this piece is mostly rays. I'm sure it was just a fluke, luck of the draw, absolutely random chance...

But if you know what you are looking at, you will realize this is truly one of a kind, and absolutely stunning.
 
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Nothing catches my eye more than a very nice wood scales, and no Bog Oak has ever caught my eye more than this. Ancient bog oak is a marvel of nature and shouldn't really exist, but by some mysterious combination of chance and chemistry and biology... it does.

Very expensive milled lumber is cut to expose the long Medullary rays, called quarter sawn lumber. Only a small fraction of that even has most of the area covered in the rays. It's exceptionally rare that this piece is mostly rays. I'm sure it was just a fluke, luck of the draw, absolutely random chance...

But if you know what you are looking at, you will realize this is truly one of a kind, and absolutely stunning.
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Tony, as you say, that Bog Oak inlay is indeed stunningā€¦spectacular, even. I peruse the CRK sales thread often, in hopes of finding such a rare treasure. Congratulations, my friend.
 
EMCEE said:
Tony, as you say, that Bog Oak inlay is indeed stunningā€¦spectacular, even. I peruse the CRK sales thread often, in hopes of finding such a rare treasure. Congratulations, my friend.
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Thanks MC. This sat on the exchange for a good week or more, and one day my wife (very much out of the blue) said, ā€œhave you thought about what you might like for Christmas?ā€ That was back in September! I casually showed it to her and she said go for it.

Technically itā€™s not mine yet. Itā€™s hidden in the closet for Christmas. But sheā€™s out of town so Iā€™m snooping in my Christmas presents šŸ˜†
 
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