Started out as a Foliage Green CTS-XHP model. Didn't really care for the Foliage Green, so I was gonna sell it, but couldn't bring myself to sell it because deep down, I really like this knife - I just hated the baby-poop green scales.
Don't know if I'm catching the true color (Royal Blue) with my crappy cell phone camera, but I'm too lazy to get out the good camera and try and get some better lighting, so this is all you get:
Before:
After:
Going to be a user now - pretty happy with it overall. Removed the scales, used Royal Blue liquid RIT (because no one in my entire stupid county had the powder in orange -that's what I originally wanted to do) and put them on a couple of wire-coat-hanger make-shift holders and boiled a pot of water with the liquid Dye and some salt. Then set the pot to simmer and put the scales in with the hanger (washed with dish soap first and handled with rubber gloves to prevent oils from coming into contact with the scales). Rinsed afterward and oiled with some CLP Break-Free (because it's what I had handy), and it looked pretty darn good (I think - at least for my first time). About 1 hour of work and I had some Royal-blue (almost purple) scales.
Don't know if I'm catching the true color (Royal Blue) with my crappy cell phone camera, but I'm too lazy to get out the good camera and try and get some better lighting, so this is all you get:
Before:
After:
Going to be a user now - pretty happy with it overall. Removed the scales, used Royal Blue liquid RIT (because no one in my entire stupid county had the powder in orange -that's what I originally wanted to do) and put them on a couple of wire-coat-hanger make-shift holders and boiled a pot of water with the liquid Dye and some salt. Then set the pot to simmer and put the scales in with the hanger (washed with dish soap first and handled with rubber gloves to prevent oils from coming into contact with the scales). Rinsed afterward and oiled with some CLP Break-Free (because it's what I had handy), and it looked pretty darn good (I think - at least for my first time). About 1 hour of work and I had some Royal-blue (almost purple) scales.