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Old 12-31-2002, 06:47 AM
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Colored Carbon Fiber

I know Blue Carbon Fiber exists but where can you get it and what other colors does it come in???

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Old 12-31-2002, 05:48 PM
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Short and sweet answer is Masecraft Supply. They have blue and red, give'em a call. They got some other neat stuff also, silver twill G-10 and textured hunters orange G-10 come to mind.
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Old 01-02-2003, 07:55 AM
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Thanks a lot, found there info and shot them an e-mail, wish they had something online to look at.

I've always wanted to ask you, is your avatar in "mid-lick"? That's funny if so. I love catching my dogs in funny situations.


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Old 01-02-2003, 12:57 PM
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Yes, she was caught mid-lick by pure chance. I used it to try and show that pits aren't these terrible killing machines that people think. I have 4 of them and they are absolute babies.
I've got some of the blue CF from them, it looks pretty good. got some cut for scales, but don't have them on a knife yet.
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Yea, I hate the rap that pits and Rottweilers get, they're such great loving pups. It's kind'a like the old gun slogan - "Guns don't kill people...People kill people" "There's no such thing as a bad dog, just bad owners"

I sent them an e-mail about the carbon and they already got me a price list back, Thanks.


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like the old model t, carbon only comes in black.
info i have read on the 'colored' stuff has been uniformly negative - seems the color layer is only on the surface. if any shaping / sanding was done on the surface, the color layer is removed leaving the carbon - black.
you might rather look at g10.


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Old 01-02-2003, 04:27 PM
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I can honestly say since I've never worked with it I don't know but in my searching the internet I've found some completed knives with full blue carbon fiber. Now the coloring could have been applied after the completion of the handles, I don't know.



Again, I don't know but I saw this knife and thought the blue would fit perfectly with on I'm planning on.

For credit sake, here is full link to the creator of that knife
http://www.elishewitzknives.com/
This link is to where I located that picture
http://www.arizonacustomknives.com/elishewitz-allen.htm

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does look as if the color goes through the material, mike.
i'd probably go to allan directly and ask if he can shed some light on this for us.
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I found his actual website and corrected the earlier post with his address.

You can't link directly to the page in his site that explains it, but he states that the actual resin is color impregnated. If you go to his site and put your curser over knives then up to glossery, you will find it on that page.

Hope this helps everyone out.


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Yes ... the color is in the composite resin. We buy a crapload of carbon fiber and I can tell you that it all looks good until you start grinding it. Anything on the surface layer is added after the fact, because the process requires a tremendous vacume on the material to remove the voids and pits. That tends to pull the air to the surface and would likely boil off anything with a melting point influenced by a high vacume state.

If it wasn't for the autoclave needed to make the good stuff, carbon fiber would be much cheaper I would think.

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There is a handgun grip maker that uses multi colored carbon fiber in several color combinations.



I've tried to contact them about their supplier. I've yet to recieve a reply. Maybe they would talk to someone else. Here is their link.http://www.carboncreations.com/

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Old 01-06-2003, 08:54 AM
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Thanks Steve,

I don't know if this is the same place, and I cannot tell from the pictures on their site, but many years ago (4 or 5) I saw an add in a gun magazine for carbon fiber grips.

These grips were actually one single layer of fiber cloth in differnet weave patterns molded into the back of clear resin. This way you got the full effect of the fiber patern but I don't think you could shape them because you would have to polish the resin in some way to bring it back to clear to see the fiber.

I've been interested if they were still around. I'll try contacting them and getting some info.


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Um the best type is the colored ribbon type,the colored resin type has problems with consistancy of the color.the color tends to pool.then looks like crap when worked.Where ya get it I don't know,I understand that the quantity of the good colored material is small.
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