Different Coloured Alox Scales?

[mortonm]

I recently bought a red alox Pioneer about a month ago or so ago.

The scales are different shades of red.  The front scale with the crest is what I would call the correct colour, however the black scale seems about two shades darker than the front.

Is this is a frequent occurence?

Obviously no effect on the knife, but it has me crazy flipping it over and over trying to see if they are different coloured haha

i tried taking some pictures, but My camera is not good enough to show the difference properly

[Reinier]

There has been a dark red Farmer some time ago, maybe they used leftover scales on your Pioneer

[mortonm]

There has been a dark red Farmer some time ago, maybe they used leftover scales on your Pioneer

I saw a couple pictures of those dark red farmers, even next to the regular red

it looks like that is what happened, half regular half dark red scales

[tattoosteve99]

Sounds like an error in scales. If it is from the factory that way. One scale red and one scale dark red. Keep it it's worth more.

[Jmora]

this is a long shot, but could it be that the anodizing process is relatively volatile (even under strict factory control), and does not reliably provide different red alox tones? I've noticed a lot of different red shades amongst my red alox knives.

[ICanFixThat]

I find Victorinox is VERY good at keeping their Alox colors matched and even across batches.  BUT some variations do occur as it's the nature of the process.  I rarely see one where the different sides are mismatched.

I agree that might be a bit of a collectable.  Is it an older Red one with the Swiss cross, or a nwerer one with the Vic Sheild?

[mortonm]

it is one of the newer ones, with the scalloped shield.