Anyone Have Legit Worm Grooves to Show?

[Vaporstang]

I'm curious if anyone has a knife with scales that have real worm grooves. I've seen plenty of machined worm grooves, but don't remember (or realizing) if I have seen real ones. I'm sure somewhere along the line the machined ones were inspired by the real thing.

 

[Ernie1980]

Is there a way to tell the difference? I have some knives that are quite old with worm grooves but I still think they are created.

 

[Vaporstang]

Maybe the groove is named that because it looks like a worm?? s

 

[Jsega51]

Yeah I’m not sure there’s actually covers on knife with legitimate worm grooves since most worms live in dirt, lol.

I think it’s just the name given to the style of jigging since it looks similar to the worm grooves that you would find under a big flat rock or paver.

 

[Nature Boy]

A lot of the old barn chestnut handles have worm holes, and maybe a small groove, but haven’t seen anything like the machined grooves. Maybe there’s some wormy chestnut out there that’s cut just the right way.
A worm hole visible in my 74:


Small grooves in somebody else’s:

 

[Goose 7279]

A lot of the old barn chestnut handles have worm holes, and maybe a small groove, but haven’t seen anything like the machined grooves. Maybe there’s some wormy chestnut out there that’s cut just the right way.
A worm hole visible in my 74:
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Small grooves in somebody else’s:
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Those almost look like nail groves and holes but worm hole sounds way better

 

[Nature Boy]

I originally thought nail holes, too, until someone suggested I look up wormy chestnut.

 

[Goose 7279]

Man your right that looksj ust like that

 

[meako]

Apparently
In the days before machines
Teams of trained worms would wriggle along the ....naaaah...even for me that is preposterous.

 

[Horsewright]

I had some wormy stabilized red oak a while back. My ranching partner said it had "rusticity".

 

[JohnDF]

"rusticity"

"Rusticity". I like that word.

Worm holes in my Chestnut #42

 

[JTB_5]

You know what they say, better to find a whole wormhole in your knife handle than half of one. . .wait, that doesn't sound right?

 

[JohnDF]

You know what they say, better to find a whole wormhole in your knife handle than half of one. . .wait, that doesn't sound right?

That was funny right there!!!

 

[yablanowitz]

Not a knife handle, just a debarked stick showing borer larva (worm) tracks.

 

[Will Power]

Worm Groove and or Indian Trail is a kind of jigging, the former replicating burrow marks as seen on yab's debarked stick above.

On the current Forum Knife there was a close run vote on Ram's Horn for the scales, only for it to be scuppered by loose tittle-tattle and sensationalist wild talk about beetle attack and bore-holes carpet beetles...

Horn is a favoured object for certain types of weevil/beetle who bore holes in it, or is it the larvae? I'm unclear if these pests attack the horn on corpses, in stored horn or in situ on live beasts or all three ? Son't have stricken knives I can show but I have a very old beaker made out of a sawn Cow's Horn that I keep pencils in, this certainly has dubious looking bore holes on it. The beaker is probably well over a century and the holes have always been there...

 

[Blue Sky]

Best I can do right now. Not a knife though, and not intentional. My guess is that they named it what it looked like, not necessarily that they used actual worm grooved bone. Like “peach seed” pattern. It just looks like a peach seed, it’s not made from one. But I've been wrong before.

 

[Shurke]

Horn is a favoured object for certain types of weevil/beetle who bore holes in it, or is it the larvae? I'm unclear if these pests attack the horn on corpses, in stored horn or in situ on live beasts or all three ?

It's the larvae that do the chewing. In addition to horn, the nasty little buggers will go after tortoiseshell as well. My understanding is that dermestid larvae are slow enough that living animals don't have to worry about having their horns chewed off. But stored products made of horn or tortoiseshell are at risk. By way of example, here are some horn handled straight razors that show varying degrees of "bug bites."

Not my razors, just pics I saved to demonstrate the problem. Granted, these are at the more extreme end of things, but if you collect straight razors like me, you frequently see minor bug damage on horn handles. For that reason, I mostly avoid the material.

I do however have a razor with a tortoiseshell handle that the dermestids can't seem to leave alone. I ended up having to store in an airtight archival bag to keep it protected.

 

[Jack Black]

 

[meako]

https://goo.gl/images/JCF9op
These Aussie moth grubs really know how to party.
The Scribbly Gum Moth.

 

[dc50]

I'm curious if anyone has a knife with scales that have real worm grooves. I've seen plenty of machined worm grooves, but don't remember (or realizing) if I have seen real ones. I'm sure somewhere along the line the machined ones were inspired by the real thing.

According to GEC, this # 83 was produced from a batch of WormWood.