Off Topic exotic knife handle scales?

I tested the stacked bills handle idea, using stage money. It does not come out quite like you want. Mostly a green/gray mottled look. You can see what it is, but it isn't crisp. It would take 100 bills to do a reasonable set of scales. It came out right at 1/2" thick. I put two waxed paper spacers between #50 and #51 so it would make two 1/4" scales.

Shade Tree Phenolic makes the shredded money scales. I use them for some knives, and for turned pens. It looks pretty good.

I have done knife handles with:
Scales from the deck boards of the Battleship South Carolina ( 1908-1921)
Wood from several local landmarks that were torn down or destroyed in storms.
Human leg bone
15 million year old Mammoth bone
30 million year old dinosaur bone
30 million year old Coprolite ( fossilized dino poop)

Stabilized braided beard ( good friend who played Santa, but had to cut off his beard for a welding job)
Stabilized dreadlocks ( my son's college days)
Stabilized Military issue WWII kotex ( Yes, it was tan color ... don't ask why - it was a special order)
Titanium Hip joints

Dried and stabilized bull dick
 
Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith said:
I tested the stacked bills handle idea, using stage money. It does not come out quite like you want. Mostly a green/gray mottled look. You can see what it is, but it isn't crisp. It would take 100 bills to do a reasonable set of scales. It came out right at 1/2" thick. I put two waxed paper spacers between #50 and #51 so it would make two 1/4" scales.

Shade Tree Phenolic makes the shredded money scales. I use them for some knives, and for turned pens. It looks pretty good.

I have done knife handles with:
Scales from the deck boards of the Battleship South Carolina ( 1908-1921)
Wood from several local landmarks that were torn down or destroyed in storms.
Human leg bone
15 million year old Mammoth bone
30 million year old dinosaur bone
30 million year old Coprolite ( fossilized dino poop)

Stabilized braided beard ( good friend who played Santa, but had to cut off his beard for a welding job)
Stabilized dreadlocks ( my son's college days)
Stabilized Military issue WWII kotex ( Yes, it was tan color ... don't ask why - it was a special order)
Titanium Hip joints

Dried and stabilized bull dick
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And I thought I had the weirdest with the human rib bone and hair and baby teeth but apparently I wasn't even close! People realize they have to hold the handle ( and whatever the handles made of *cough bull dick cough*) whenever they use the knife right!? Just sayin.
 
ive had this idea stashed away for awhile now, too long really and im sure its already been done but ...what about some cool graphic design/artwork ..original type of stuff and then cast in clear? seriously though im gonna get it done eventually
 
Ok Stacy wins so far! lol I had no idea some of that S''t could be stabilized! lol I've done stabilized corn scales that's as far out of the box I've done other than homemade home made blue jean micarata.
 
The only one I'm moderately surprised by is used kotex but maybe somebody used it to stop their battle wound from bleeding?

Look up "pizzle" and you'll realize it's more common than you think, there's possibly some store close to you that sells it and maybe you've even bought some. :)
 
The leg bone was from a bone find that a fellow got on an archeological dig.

The Kotex was a WWII issue to the nurse corps, and they wanted it made into a handle. Supposedly it was in their mothers stuff, and they though it would be a cool knife handle. It was impregnated with fiberglass resin and made hard. To tell the truth, after cutting it to handle size and grinding it down, it looked like it was just a white handle.

Bull dick canes and such have been around for a long time. The handle was made from a piece of one that had deteriorated.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-ant...390278?hash=item2842432c06:g:9AoAAOSw8yVZjkeF

Funny story about the Kotex. My dad was an independent duty navy corpsman on several ships in WWII. He was often the only medical person on board. He would stock up on things like pure ethanol and battle dressings. Because requisitions were pretty much useless, cumshaw and barter were the best way to get needed things that were in short supply. Whenever they hit a base, he would trade the "torpedo juice" for coffee for the ships mess, and trade the battle dressings with the nurses he met on any base with a hospital for other needed medical supplies. They were always short on Kotex. The straps on the battle dressings could cut off and the dressing was essentially the same.
 
I know it's not that uncommon but woolly mammoth ivory has to take the cake when you think about it.

I would pay top dollar for some Patrick Swayze cadaver bone...
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
I know it's not that uncommon but woolly mammoth ivory has to take the cake when you think about it.

I would pay top dollar for some Patrick Swayze cadaver bone...
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Yikes Nathan!

Since I refuse to want to imagine you as Dirty Dancing or Ghost type of fan, I'd like to imagine that it was Patrick's Roadhouse which gives you the penchant for those necro-handle scales!
 
Stabilized Armadillo shell? I've seen that a few times. BUT - Stacy does take the cake for sure with his collection of handle materials. I really like Mammoth ivory - that stuff is neat. I really like slipjoint scales from mammoth ivory.
 
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