2018 BF Knife Poll 5.2: Animal Handle Materials

[cbr1000]

If the elk looks like Joe Radza’s knife, then it would be amazing.

My concern is a lot of elk I see is basically like white or Appaloosa bone, very plain and no texture.

I think this knife will be great, and the voting has been fun.

I wonder if it has to do with the grading or is it the prep? GEC's elk always has some black in it. I don't recall seeing much in the way of shades of brown in GEC's elk. Looking at the Buck elk pictures in this thread it is mostly white with some brown. It's listed in the poll as "grade A" ... maybe we need grade B, C, or D. Give us some dirty black and white elk with some texture

 

[Elgatodeacero]

That would be funny and bizarre if the bumpy, sambar stag-like elk is actually considered a lower grade?!

 

[akaMatt]

Figured wood is graded with an "A" scale, where more A's means higher quality/figuring. So AAAA is superb, AAA is high quality, AA is average, A is the least figured.

Not sure if that translates the same with Grade-A elk...

 

[meako]

Where does the "ram horn" come from exactly? Its probably off of some domestic sheep, not the majestic beasts some are imagining!

Vote Elk! Otherwise we're gong to have a burlap micarta handle.[/QUOTE

https://www.istockphoto.com/au/photos/merino-sheep?excludenudity=true&sort=mostpopular&mediatype=photography&phrase=merino sheep

 

[tmd_87]

Well I ended up being a person who changes my vote from 1) Jigged Bone 2) Stag to 1) Jigged Bone 2) Elk. I weighed out what I would want more Elk or Ram and I ended up changing early this morning in hopes to push Elk over the top. I ended up thinking ram was still gonna win. On to the next polls!!!

 

[skblades]

skblades It would be super helpful to have representative photos of the covers for the next poll. Thank you for everything you're doing to make the forum knife happen this year!

I think your fellow forum members will have plenty of examples to show. I will see about samples getting made anyway though! It's visualize time. As for polished vs. not polished, I think we have to cross that bridge when/if Elk is chosen.

 

[meako]

Carpet Beetles?
Reeaaaly?right then we best not get ramshorn or it will be devoured .

I should mention something might be of concern and that is the Elk Whelk.
A small gastropod that infests elk antlers forming colonies similar to barnacles on wharves and jetties . The knife has to be drydocked and defouled .
Then of course there is the Giant Micarta Tarantula .No one has ever encountered this hideous arachnid nesting among there knives ...errh ...and lived to tell the tale.
I won't even mention the Burlapadactyl a flying prehistoric reptile .
The Ironwoodpecker might sound cute folks but this large, powerful Raptor related to the now extinct Haast's eagle is reported to have swooped down and carried away small children and elderly family members of anyone who has ever even thought of ironwood.

 

[mitch4ging]

Carpet Beetles?
Reeaaaly?right then we best not get ramshorn or it will be devoured .

I should mention something might be of concern and that is the Elk Whelk.
A small gastropod that infests elk antlers forming colonies similar to barnacles on wharves and jetties . The knife has to be drydocked and defouled .
Then of course there is the Giant Micarta Tarantula .No one has ever encountered this hideous arachnid nesting among there knives ...errh ...and lived to tell the tale.
I won't even mention the Burlapadactyl a flying prehistoric reptile .
The Ironwoodpecker might sound cute folks but this large, powerful Raptor related to the now extinct Haast's eagle is reported to have swooped down and carried away small children and elderly family members of anyone who has ever even thought of ironwood.

 

[street soldier]

Carpet Beetles?
Reeaaaly?right then we best not get ramshorn or it will be devoured .

I should mention something might be of concern and that is the Elk Whelk.
A small gastropod that infests elk antlers forming colonies similar to barnacles on wharves and jetties . The knife has to be drydocked and defouled .
Then of course there is the Giant Micarta Tarantula .No one has ever encountered this hideous arachnid nesting among there knives ...errh ...and lived to tell the tale.
I won't even mention the Burlapadactyl a flying prehistoric reptile .
The Ironwoodpecker might sound cute folks but this large, powerful Raptor related to the now extinct Haast's eagle is reported to have swooped down and carried away small children and elderly family members of anyone who has ever even thought of ironwood.

 

[Vaporstang]

I went to bed with Ram leading and surging. This morning, unbelievably, Elk was in the lead, which was my first choice. I will be voting Elk in the final poll but ready to switch to Ironwood if necessary to keep Burlap out for this knife. (I will still buy the burlap knife if it does win.)

 

[Sabercat]

I'm not a zoologist or an elkologist(?), but one thing to keep in mind is that GEC gets most of - if not all of their elk from Elk County, PA.

I don't know if PA elk are any different than other elk (such as a different sub-species) but I can assume their antlers go through different rigors than the western elk.

I also don't know where Buck gets their elk, but it seems doubtful that it's from Pennsylvania.

Purely hypothesising.

 

[Pàdruig]

I'm not a zoologist or an elkologist(?), but one thing to keep in mind is that GEC gets most of - if not all of their elk from Elk County, PA.

I don't know if PA elk are any different than other elk (such as a different sub-species) but I can assume their antlers go through different rigors than the western elk.

I also don't know where Buck gets their elk, but it seems doubtful that it's from Pennsylvania.

Purely hypothesising.

It is my understanding that Buck gets their elk antler from here in the Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington, Idaho).

 

[Rookie82]

I'm not a zoologist or an elkologist(?), but one thing to keep in mind is that GEC gets most of - if not all of their elk from Elk County, PA.

I don't know if PA elk are any different than other elk (such as a different sub-species) but I can assume their antlers go through different rigors than the western elk.

I also don't know where Buck gets their elk, but it seems doubtful that it's from Pennsylvania.

Purely hypothesising.

PA elk were killed off completely back in the 1800's. Sometime in the 1960's, a very small group of elk were brought from one of the western states, and farm raised inside fenced pastures to keep out predators or hunters. When the herd was growing, another group from out west was brought in to help keep diverse bloodlines. Then eventually the herd kept growing in size and was released outside the farm into public land, where it continued to grow. Then the population was deemed large enough that Pennsylvania opened up an elk hunting season again.

 

[meako]

Maybe if we call it Wapiti ....

 

[Will Power]

We need a re-count

Horn got more

Elk stuffed the ballot boxes and too many spoiled votes