Do you like Stag handles on a traditional knife?

[Campbellclanman]

STAG....I love it! its one of THE very best materials, alongside with peachseed Bone...

Especially when it gets a wee bit older.....

 

[Modoc ED]

Case 51405L Stag Lockback

 

[akadave2]

Love the looks of stag but they tend on the chubby side, thick slabs so I dont carry them much. I have found that the old stag handled knives tend to the thinner side like this one.

 

[Fred Sanford]

I like 'em but I hate how fat they can be. I really wish that they made some nice stag handles that weren't twice as wide as the entire knife in the middle. That annoys me.

 

[sunandsteel]

I like stag handles but my wallet doesn't.

 

[Double Ott]

I do like stag.

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[wagglebee]

When stag is done right it's incredible.

Here's Lanny's Clip made by Brent Cramer a few years ago which a bunch of guys have tried to talk me out of.

 

[Humppa]

Stag is a great handle material - the feel is just incredible...

some pics of mine...

Hubertus stag - now in good hands with Mack (protourist)



PUMA Solingen, stag



PUMA Solingen, Jagdnicker (along with the stockman)



oh... and here is a Carl Schlieper Canoe

 

[Stelth]

I hate stag. It looks too primitive to me...like something a caveman would use.

 

[okbohn]

Like. I Love!

I love the look, the feel. For me the only thing that turns me off of it is if the scales are concave. I really don't care for that.

 

[SAK Guy]

A Case (from the watch thread) and a Carl Schlieper

 

[Fred Sanford]

Like. I Love!

I love the look, the feel. For me the only thing that turns me off of it is if the scales are concave. I really don't care for that.

SO do you mean if the scales are curved inward in the middle of the handle? I've never seen them like that. Usually I just see them convex with the center bowing way out and being "fatter".

 

[okbohn]

SO do you mean if the scales are curved inward in the middle of the handle? I've never seen them like that. Usually I just see them convex with the center bowing way out and being "fatter".

exactly. Like this.

 

[Turk88]

love the looks of it especially because of the wide variation between examples. I don't have one myself yet though...

 

[Peregrin]

Stag is by far my favorite handle material. It's always my first choice.

 

[PocketKnifeJimmy]

Here is my Linder miniature nicker knife which sports a crown stag handle (Mercator k55k next to it for size comparison)

And a Tidioute fixed blade...

 

[CJZ]

I love the looks of stag, especially sambar! Unfortunately I don't own any yet.

 

[NoNameNomad]

Here is my Linder miniature nicker knife which sports a crown stag handle (Mercator k55k next to it for size comparison)

That is a fantastic looking knife, the Linder. The image in brings to my mind is the sort of knife carried by some nobleman during the Middle Ages as his personal knife for mealtimes. Perhaps handled by a stag he hunted down himself in the deep forests of medieval Europe.

 

[kamagong]

Ha, when I read the OP I was going to say ask Kamagong to post his stag 73 for an example of why stag is great. That knife looks like a custom and yet it's a production model. Makes me love my own stag 73 that much more, mismatched scales and all (knew from pics they were mismatched going into the purchase, just really like the looks of it anyways). The 73 (as well as the 42, 72 and 23) are the folders/patterns best suited to stag I think. They look good in all materials, but they just look *right* in stag.

Not bad for a knife that was bought sight unseen.

- Christian

 

[stevomiller]

Love it! Quality stag is about my favorite handle. Great traction in hand, durable, beautiful.