TGIF ~ Camouflage Painting ~

Goldie, I suspect that, all possible survival scenario combined, you're more likely to be glad of an orange knife you accidentally dropped on the grass or otherwise misplaced by your campsite than hate it for the risk, in an even more extremely remote situation, that your orange knife got you "compromised". If it you ever found yourself in that situation, well, that is why you carry green duct tape. You carry green du tape right???

you're more likely to be glad of an orange knife you accidentally dropped on the grass or otherwise misplaced by your campsite

Yup - countless jostles, bumps, slips, and just bumbles have led me to be happy for bright yellow and bright orange tools along the way, because there are only so many lanyards I'm willing to have hanging around my body.
(Also, a clutz, and I'd rather take the chance a machete or hatchet or knife needs fetched out of a marsh, leaves or brambles and that it's not going to be under me as I roll and bounce, as opposed to it being attached and having more limited room to get lucky.)
That said, my knives aren't orange. I have a red one, but it mostly matches a sweater and shirt and is just a daily pocket carry.

If it really bothers you, depending on type, you can also cover the handle with 550 cord (full or hollowed) or leather thong, and get some cordage to go along with your blade.

I don't mind orange for just in the camp area , but if I'm going to hike around with it on my belt , looking
for wild berries or edible plants, or finding tinder , or hiding , I don't think I would want to wear an orange knife holder.

They could of at least given the belt knife holder a grey-man color and still had an orange knife inside.
I think that would work.

I had not thought of matching it to whatever I wear, such as red. Many of my favorite colours to wear
are black and khaki's

I don't think I would want to wear an orange knife holder. They could of at least given the belt knife holder a grey-man color and still had an orange knife inside.
I think that would work.

That's a very fair point. Didn't realize the sheath was orange, too. Jeez. They don't want you lost, huh?

I had not thought of matching it to whatever I wear, such as red.

I just like a couple of specific colors, and Boy Toy picked it up for me. It might come, from sentimentality, but it's not my usual daily carry folding blade. It's too small and light, and does not lend a great deal of confidence in its long-term durability.

But its pretty, and since my daily carry also includes lipstick and my bag and trucks have better tools...:)

I too paint camo on things and often they work well for hiding. Truth be told most of this is for appearances and real good camo is properly done for the area you need to hide in at that particular time.
As was mentioned in this thread there is a lot you can get from a store and that is the stuff that attracts the least attention.
On the orange front, many small items of blaze orange are still hard to see. It's the big bright Santa suites in blaze orange that will get noticed.
Truth is it's motion way more than colour that give you away.

Here is a small trailer I was given for free that I fixed up. I replaced the broken plastic fenders with steel ones, rewired it, replaced a bent hitch from jackknifing it and wire stitched a 24" crack in the top cover.As it wasn't worth the time to lay down a pro paint job, I just camoed it instead. A little too big to tow behind a bike but good for a small car or even a 4 wheeler to cart a moose out with.

This is also done with the cheap stuff from Crappy Tire. I just start with the lighter color and finish with the darkest. It's not rocket science and the finished product is decent enough.

Seems that I never got any real bites on the above trailer so I had another purpose for it. I've had a portable 225 Bobcat welder sitting around for 16 years. It was simply parked when I started building helicopters instead. Now the welder was bought new in 1990 and it was showing it's age even though it hasn't been used for so long. I took it off the welding truck and grabbed the cable reels too. Since the trailer was camo'd I thought a splash paint job might raise the pricetag some and I'd sell it all as a package deal. What do ya think?

Figured maybe even a prepper would scoop it for a generator/welder as it puts out 8000 watts too. If it doesn't sell, I guess I'll do a little portable work again here and there in hunter fashion 🙄

Another camo job I did was for another bear and moose guide I know. He asked if I'd camo his backup shotgun. This is used when bear baiting and tracking wounded game for customers. It came in a waterproof tube shown here too. It is a Mossberg 500 which was nickel plated and he didn't like the shine.

The clearcoat still has a little shine but it preserves the paint much better from scratches. This toy almost disappears when you drop it in my country. It was amazing how well it blends in and loses it's overall outline.

Knuckles, I would never have thought about painting my guns to match my area rugs, but you sure did a fine job with that one buddy! ;p

Joke aside, the gun looks quite sharp, nice work!

well, it seems I'm not finished just yet. I decided to do some repairs on my pellet rifle's scope to make it useable and after shimming it until it aligned enough to adjust properly, I went and splashed some camouflage in it's direction too.

Pellet rifle by a pellet stove....since their not related, they may even consider dating sometime.... 😯

I did some accurate taping off of areas the hands go by following preset pattern already on the stock. I noted that the White Spruce branches make a nicer pattern than the Balsom did as the needles are closer together and longer. I am also applying the black in a very sparingly manner as it goes along way in darkening the overall finished product from a distance. I also taped off the readout on the 3-9 power scope adjustment.

Seems I haven't sold the welder as yet so I kept adding to my new creation.

I found that since the welder took up the whole trailer,I couldn't get weight distribution right and the trailer flipped up as there wasn't enough tongue weight. So to rectify that, I stole an old cabinet off my other old truck and welded it to the front. And as I want to kick it outside for the winter, I thought a roof would be nice too. I didn't want to pay for steel for such as something that was for sale anyways and tripped over the many store shelves I have out back before that lightbulb in my brain finally flickered on 💡 . Yup, them are just shelves from a grocery store for the roof and sides!

So for $4000 you get a 225 bobcat welder / 8KW generator, 100 ft welding cables on reels and camo'd trailer to make any prepper drool 😆

The bad part is you have to drive a wee far as I live beside Santa and TimBuckToo isn't far either!

3rd pic down from the front page.

Nice thumb you got there... I got one like that..table saw...It ruined my modeling career. All I had worked for was gone in a flash, no more manicures, no more soaking it in oil, seems the auditions just dried up, no call backs....I was finished...started drinking, hanging with the wrong crowd (7th day adventists) before long I lost everything.................such is the life of a hand model.

Some good tips there on camo. only thing I have tried to camo is a windmill tower, havent got it right, but getting there

Great work with your gun Knucle.