What is your favorite scale color between Burnt Orange or Blurple?

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What is your favorite scale color between Burnt Orange or Blurple?

Burnt Orange
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47%
Blurple
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53%
 
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Re: What is your favorite scale color between Burnt Orange or Blurple?

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The Burnt Orange really grew on me
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JuPaul wrote:
Fri Oct 30, 2020 7:40 am
Evil D wrote:
Fri Oct 30, 2020 7:23 am
When my son was a baby we had a diaper incident that was exactly the same color as that burnt orange. I'm not even joking. It was all the way up his back and down his thighs. I guess being a dad has ruined colors like that for me.
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Re: What is your favorite scale color between Burnt Orange or Blurple?

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Blurple is one of my favorite G10 colors. Its a bummer that it is reserved for S110V.
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Re: What is your favorite scale color between Burnt Orange or Blurple?

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I am OK with both, but have come to very much like the burnt orange, in fact I purchased some burnt orange fabric for a couple of sewing projects. For things where eye-grabbing high visibility is what you want, I like burnt orange much better than neon green and other "dial all the way to the right" colors.
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I don't like black G10 and blurple looks almost black to me, so I voted burnt orange. But a lighter shade would win me over.
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Evil D wrote:
Fri Oct 30, 2020 7:23 am
When my son was a baby we had a diaper incident that was exactly the same color as that burnt orange. I'm not even joking. It was all the way up his back and down his thighs. I guess being a dad has ruined colors like that for me.
Dude, that escalated quickly!! lol It was your comms on the other thread that wanted me to see what afis favored without the type of steel in consideration.
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Fri Oct 30, 2020 7:22 am
I voted orange. Only 11 votes so far but it looks closer than I would have expected. Like EvilD said in the other thread, it’s easy to assume that just because you have a strong preference between the two then most others will share it. I’m interested to see where the numbers end up. Even though I’m aware of my bias, I still expect orange to pull away on this one.
I'm a bit surprised of the delta Orange has on Blurple. I thought it would be closer.
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Re: What is your favorite scale color between Burnt Orange or Blurple?

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I voted burnt orange. Truthfully, it's one of my favorite scale colors, but I don’t have any knives with burnt orange scales anymore. As they age and get stains and such, I think they show more personality than some of other colors Spyderco offers.

Blurple is interesting, but the way it changes from blue to purple, depending on the lighting, kind of ruins it for me.
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The Meat man wrote:
Fri Oct 30, 2020 7:19 am
TkoK83Spy wrote:
Fri Oct 30, 2020 6:53 am
The Meat man wrote:
Fri Oct 30, 2020 6:49 am
Blurple all the way. Not only does it look better in my opinion, it also doesn't show dirt or grime as quickly as burnt orange.
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I like blurple over burnt orange, but I like the HAP40 burnt orange colour for work knives much better than bright orange.

Although I don’t actually have any blurple knives - my S110V UKPK is more of a dark navy blue.
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I love Blurple
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There aren't many scale colors I don't like, maybe lime green and black. My favorite EDC knife right now is burnt orange, but if the question is which do I prefer, I prefer blurple.
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Burnt orange.
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I love the 'blurple". I wish I could vote "both" however. I can't so I chose blurple.
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Re: What is your favorite scale color between Burnt Orange or Blurple?

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Interesting results so far - as said already: If I have to choose I am in the "burnt orange" camp, but thought I would be in the minority. Does not look like that though.
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Burnt orange
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Blue (BB M390 blue especially) is my favorite knife color and I like orange and even just ordered an orange Spyderco. Neither blurple or burnt orange really appeal to me, but I definitely prefer blurple between the two.
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To my eyes, the color used for the CPM S110V knives is scarcely "purplish". More a very dark, slightly indigo blue color.
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Think it is called Texas Longhorns Orange but that is way toooo long of a name and had to be modified.

Eye opening that it is holding its ground so well... maybe y'all from Texas around here??? :eek:

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cycleguy wrote:
Mon Nov 02, 2020 4:10 pm
Think it is called Texas Longhorns Orange but that is way toooo long of a name and had to be modified.

Eye opening that it is holding its ground so well... maybe y'all from Texas around here??? :eek:

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I don’t have either, but voted blurple as I think it would have a greater appeal long term. No strong preference either way really.
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Fireman wrote:
Fri Oct 30, 2020 5:25 pm
I love Blurple
I am glad Spyderco is willing to make unique products. Maybe if it was called “Midnight Tactical” it would be more acceptable in the knife world.
Ha, this is amazing.

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I am amazed this is so close and how the numbers have looked, been back and forth, in general.
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