2018 BF Knife Poll 5.2: Animal Handle Materials

Choose your Animal Material Champion: 2 Votes Allowed

  • Buffalo - $$

    Votes: 25 8.0%

  • Elk - Grade A Natural Shed - $$

    Votes: 135 43.3%

  • Ram Horn - $$

    Votes: 128 41.0%

  • Jigged Bone - $$

    Votes: 112 35.9%

  • Giraffe Bone - $$

    Votes: 31 9.9%

  • Camel Bone - $$

    Votes: 17 5.4%

  • Stag - $$$

    Votes: 40 12.8%
  • Total voters
    312
  • Poll closed .
r8shell said:
Thank you. Those look much nicer!
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r8shell, Is it done by Buck or is it just bought from a supplier??

I've owned one like the far left. It's very amateur imho. I haven't seen the second from the right except in photos. In photos, it looks okay. If Buck buys from a supplier, the old stuff may or may not be representative of what the supplier sells now.

300Bucks said:
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supratentorial said:
r8shell, Is it done by Buck or is it just bought from a supplier??

I've owned one like the far left. It's very amateur imho. I haven't seen the second from the right except in photos. In photos, it looks okay. If Buck buys from a supplier, the old stuff may or may not be representative of what the supplier sells now.
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Yeah, a lot of votes for jigged bone, but we really don't know what it would look like. If there were a smooth cow bone option, that might have gotten my vote.
 
I agree, the elk examples are not calling my name at all. I'm holding with 1.=Ram, 2.=jig bone
 
PirateSeulb said:
Everyone should have 1 vote for Ram and 2nd vote for what ever it won't matter because then Ram wins and we all win :p

I do not get the Elk support given the examples just posted above for Elk look very bland.
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I dunno ... I would not kick any of those with Elk out of my pocket.
I mite need new glasses, but they look good to me. :)
 
I love me some stag, but I just can't catch this elk fever that seems to be going around . . .
 
supratentorial supratentorial thanks for the good array of pictures Jake:thumbsup: I certainly know which I prefer;) and it appears to have no chance against the 'bleached bone in the desert' look.....that everybody seems to want :eek:
 
Let's ponder this: the jigged bone is an uncertain option in that Buck doesn't seem to specialise in it. Some of the pictures shown may be from knives of 30 years ago? We could get a very bland machine jigging like you see on RR knives, not bad as such but they are very cheap knives...You are NOT going to get the type of jigging seen on GEC short SFO runs, I'm certain of that.

Wood or even Burlap will massacre that option, so the 'animals' fall at the first fence.

Elk is pretty bland unless it's top chosen book matched stuff which have appeared on GEC's limited (extinct? :D) stainless runs. Otherwise it looks very mediocre to me, a cheap substitute for Sambar Stag - due to the latter's scarcity.

Ram's Horn is often found on European knives and for good reason- grip, individuality,beauty and more durable than bovine horn. There is translucence to it and feature-bark -like in Stag. No Forum Knife has yet had a Horn handle but there's been lots of jigged bone, wood, stag and micarta.

RAT did a Stockman some years ago that had Ram's Horn scales, I thought it looked exceptional. If somebody could find a picture then it could tip the balance;)

I'd like smooth bone, Camel or Giraffe for that matter as something with difference and character, jigged bone doesn't offer it, so the marginal bone voters could get something different by switching to RAM!:thumbsup:
 
I think Buck's stag looks great in all the examples. But yeah, no chance probably, so elk is the next best thing.

Jigged bone stands no chance against wood or micarta in the Big Fight.
 
bflying said:
Sooooo. Now that this is down to the wire, does anyone want to remove their second vote and/or just pack their favorite of the only three that have a possibility of winning. Why does Sheen come to mind every time I hear "winning"? :D Anywaaay... Even Ram has a chance with some outlier movement.
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I also think of that nut bar Sheen when I hear someone say winning. That and Dragon's Blood lol :rolleyes::D
 
If those who have voted for Buffalo would go with Ram's Horn...and those that voted for Ram's Horn and jigged bone, like I did, would change/eliminate their vote and/or just vote Ram's Horn, then 'Rammy' might have a chance. Just vote Ram's Horn. Preston
 
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