2008 Forum knife Scale material

[Ed T]

Please cast your vote for scale material.
If it turns out the choices are too narrow, we can reopen the poll.

 

[navihawk]

Ebony.Nothing is as striking as ebony.Well, thats not true, but ebony is nice.

 

[kamagong]

Do we have any idea on what the pattern is going to be. IMHO some patterns look better with certain scale materials.

 

[Ed T]

The patterns have been narrowed to stockman, congress, and trapper.

 

[billym]

Stag for me!
Bill

 

[kamkazmoto]

Stag or exotic wood, probably ebony or ironwood.

 

[Rusty1]

Stag for me although I could make a comment on the Exotic Wodd,

Rusty1

 

[caine]

osage orange wood

 

[Ed T]

Like that spelling? I could not go back and edit it, so it appears I am stuck on stupid....

 

[zerogee]

I like smooth bone that has lots of natural variation in the saturation of the dye -- I hate it when the dye is so uniform it looks like plastic (this goes for jigged bone too). A deep, rich red would be my favorite, followed by a medium brown with both darker and more golden highlights.

-- Dwight

 

[superduty truck]

desert ironwood or is it ironwodd? It is my favorite handle material

 

[rbmcmjr]

Jigged bone

 

[Beaver]

I prefer a stag. Since our last knife is ivory, my next choice would be a jigged bone.

Jay

 

[neeman]

Stag for a special like this

 

[Will Power]

MUST be Ram's Horn! This is unjustly overlooked, it has fantastic texture and colours, tough too.Suits the 3 pattern choices as well.

 

[rosconey2]

what about mother of pearl or celluloid

 

[Ed T]

IF I understand correctly, the last one was MOP.
I don't think celluloid was on the numer list, but will look again.

Ed

 

[Bastid]

1st one stag.
2nd one mamoth ivory.

My vote would go to black lip pearl.

 

[ea42]

Oh yes Gus, that would be sweet! Probably runs about $60-$70 a pair, which would probably bring a knife in at over $100, but it'd be worth it:thumbup:. The only thing is that of course there's a shortage, but then stag is also in short supply.

Eric

 

[tarmix101]

Stag, then jigged bone. :thumbup: