Translucent lot of 58mm on eBay

RedRamage · **on:** March 02, 2014, 07:40:25 PM

This one is not my auction, just saw this. Obviously hard to tell with used knives, but I'm almost positive that one of these is a pretty rare brown/rust translucent color.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lot-of-10-Victorinox-Swiss-Army-Knives-Translucent-Classic-SD/131127517755

sawman · **Reply #1 on:** March 02, 2014, 07:44:39 PM

They're used and look all beat up and scratched to hell. I'd give'm a nickel for them...

RedRamage · **Reply #2 on:** March 02, 2014, 07:56:49 PM

True, they are pretty beat up... but I've had success polishing up beat scales in the past.

For example the brown in this picture was a used one I polished up:

Fattsgalore · **Reply #3 on:** March 02, 2014, 09:50:36 PM

The brown from what I've been told is actually Onxy that's faded over time. Wish the dark Onxy was darker, it's not really black just a dark brown. If anyone with want to correct me...
I like my little collection as well...

How do you polish your SAKs?

RedRamage · **Reply #4 on:** March 03, 2014, 12:23:49 AM

You could be right... I've sometimes thought it might be a faded Purple too as there's a certain purple-ish hue to it too.

I've also thought the light blue was a faded dark blue too.

RedRamage · **Reply #5 on:** March 03, 2014, 12:25:07 AM

Not sure why my picture isn't showing up either right now... it's from the SAKWiki.

RedRamage · **Reply #6 on:** March 05, 2014, 03:39:28 PM

Quote from: Fattsgalore on March 02, 2014, 09:50:36 PM

The brown from what I've been told is actually Onxy that's faded over time. Wish the dark Onxy was darker, it's not really black just a dark brown. If anyone with want to correct me...

After further review, I'm going to say that I'm 99% sure that the "brown" really is just faded Onyx.

I was looking at my collection of colored SAKs last night and was surprised that I couldn't find my Onyx among the others. After searching for a while (there's only 32 knives in this display case... can't be that hard, can it?!?), I discovered that I was seeing a light brown and a dark brown. Hmm... I think I'll start storing that display upside down to avoid light and future fading.