I've seen a couple of pieces with buff horn. One was a straight razor that was ungodly old. The horn looked as good as new, even though the blade had obviously seen long, hard service. That piece had gold pins too. Pretty neat.
Another was an old stiletto that a friend had, also old and used hard. The blade was pretty much sharpened down to a radio antenna, poor thing. The scales were scratched and the luster was gone, but they were solid and didn't have any cracks.
I had a kit knife that somebody butchered together once too. The buff scales on that thing would have been nice, had somebody known what they were doing with them.
I'd gladly take a knife with buffalo horn scales, as long as it wasn't a filet knife. The stuff do get slippery when wet.
