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Blurple Orca

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A while back I decided to pick up an Orca to see what they were all about, and ended up paying for the purple Mokuti version.
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Liked everything about the knife but the inconsistent mokuti coloring, which was pale, winey, and a little yellowish, because of how the mokuti was done.
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Moreover the liners were barely anodized at all:
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Long story short, I wasn't unhappy enough to go through a returns process, and held onto the knife, which had an undeniable luxe feel to it. Reate makes 'em well. It joined the rotation. Cut to today: I decided screw it, I'm reanodizing it. I took it apart and cleaned it all up, and decided to keep the anodization on the clip as is, but everything else was going to go electric blurple. Incidentally? @erickong will find this interesting: like the Lynx, this is an unkeyed pivot that was initially held in place with a glob of threadlocker:
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Because it's adjustable from both sides, unlike the Lynx, it's not as big of a deal on the Orca, but it's still suboptimal. Drop: keyed pivots only, plz thx. Moving on... How'd it re-anodize?
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That's what I wanted to see! Blurple liners, and mokuti that alternates purple to blue instead of violet to gold .
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I liked it before, but like it more, now :)
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Overall it went from wine-colored to electric blurple, with solid liminal coloration (which is a fancy way of saying that when you're looking at it at an angle, the color seems to change) and because I etched the liners well, they are retaining their color decently when they get a little skin oil on them. Anyway, Drop, there we are: blurple Orca.
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mdeous
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Nov 1, 2020
Really nice work! Any plans on selling it? :p
reswright
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Nov 1, 2020
mdeousI like it too much.
jaymesnelson
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Apr 20, 2020
That's bad ass, at first I thought it was for sale as a drop item and wanted one, lol.
reswright
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Apr 20, 2020
jaymesnelsonthx! Gotta make your own, tho :)
erickong
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Apr 18, 2020
Change the pivots!
reswright
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Apr 17, 2020
Decided to replace the two bead lanyard with a hand anodized one.
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Zoephyrii
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Apr 23, 2020
reswrightMan...that looks clean. Really selling me on this knife.
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