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Looking4deals
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Nov 12, 2019
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Does anyone know what knife is in picture #4 of 7 the same photo is #5 0f 8 it looks like that it is green g10 with stone washed blue and black Ti scale is this an option there not offering? I'm confused is the green g10 knife going to have that on the lock bar side? Would like to know, thanks.
Rudolph
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Nov 13, 2019
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Looking4dealsI believe 4 of 7 is olive drab / bronze green , and that is also what is shown in 5 of 8 in the expanded slides . Titanium tends to photograph odd , especially blacks, blues, greens and with a stonewash can really get confusing . This might help good luck https://www.bladehq.com/?search=rike+m3
reswright
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Nov 18, 2019
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RudolphYou would think, right?
it’s actually blue-ish in the hand, too. Isn’t bad, I kinda like it, but it is not green. The OD G-10 is OD just as in pics.
if you look around the web at different deals on the M3 it’s clear each batch got a different anodization. Some even got a double anodization, like the CF/ M390 version on sale a few places. Those cost double, tho.
reswright
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Nov 18, 2019
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Looking4dealsThat option is what I got. I ordered the OD and green Ti. I didn’t get a Ti scale that looked anything like pic number 4 tho.
the Ti scale on the knife in pic number 4 was much more aggressively weathered then apparently fully chemically stripped before it was reanodized green - getting that shade of green with that intensity isn’t easy. What I got was nominally weathered and reanodized blue. There’s pics of it.
someone like @Kavik could tell you better about producing the differences but the upshot is the knife in the pic looks like it was done by hand using really good technique and the one I got looks like it was batch weathered lightly and batch anodized without getting quite so cleaned off first. There may have been color enhancement on their photos as well; tweaking, but still.
Kavik
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Nov 18, 2019
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reswrightSo many variables involved, it's almost impossible to even guess at.
The way the photography and photo editing was done (and even the settings of your screen) is going to be a huge variable.
With tumbling for the two tone effect, no two are ever going to have the same amount of weathering, even using the same material and same times.
Then the colors for the final anodizing stage can vary at the same voltage, depending on the level of polish on the piece, how clean the piece was, the concentration of the solution, the temperature of the solution, how good of a connection there was, the distance from the anode, the time in the bath.
Not to mention how clean it is between the anodizing and the pics, is there packing oils or skin oils on the knife from handling while taking the pics?
So many wildcards, even in a carefully controlled production setting you could have two radically different pieces in the end.
In my eyes, that's part of the appeal though, each piece can be unique, even in a production model knife
Can always try wiping it down with windex to see if it goes back to the color you were expecting when it's clean and free of oils...but it may just change back again the next time you use it lol
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