Handle material survey

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What is your favorite traditional handle material for a working fixed blade knife?

Poll ended at Tue May 03, 2016 11:16 pm

Domestic wood (walnut/beech/oak/maple/etc)
10
15%
"Exotic" wood (rosewood, ebony, cocobola, etc)
11
17%
Jigged or scratted bone
7
11%
Carved bone
3
5%
Plain bone
3
5%
Sambar stag
11
17%
Other "stag" (other deer, moose, reindeer, elk, etc)
7
11%
Horn (buffalo, cow, antelope, jackalope, etc)
3
5%
Ivory
3
5%
Tell me what I left out
8
12%
 
Total votes: 66

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Old Hunter
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Re: Handle material survey

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Camillus, Your Japanese Shoto is very eye-catching - nice! OH
Deep in the guts of most men is buried the involuntary response to the hunter's horn, a prickle of the nape hairs, an acceleration of the pulse, an atavistic memory of his fathers, who killed first with stone, and then with club...Robert Ruark
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Camillus
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Thanks OldHunter,
I really like the look and feel of the Shoto knife.

Here is a Damascus knife I added Purple Heart scales to.
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Put me in for Stag...some of Stag's character & color just amazes me...it may not be this or that, but.....if ya
get a chunk with a good feeling palm swell to it, and it has
some gorgeous stag bark on it to ruff it up a bit, stag....100%

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Here is a set of steak knives that originally had faux pearl handles that deteriorated and fell apart. I found these pieces of stag at a yard sale for 50 cents apiece and fit them to the blades.The grip is amazing and on my personal knife I left the spur coming out the side attached.It makes a perfect thumb rest.
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