Favorite handle material

I'm most fond of well jigged bone and ironwood. I rather like canvas micarta as well.
 
Res C is pretty good as long as you don't try to make a guard out of it :rolleyes:


I dig micarta big time - feels pretty grippy in hand, even if made fairly smooth. G10, when smooth, is a bit too slick for my tastes.

Carbon fiber is pretty awesome on a folder, although the zytel on my original Endura is an old favorite.
 
I like smooth bone for its looks, but only on slip joints like the Case trapper or stockman.
Carbon fibre and micarta look and feel good on "tactical" knives.
Cocobolo wood is my choice for a gentleman's folder.
Delrin (aka 'plastic') for EDC knives and beaters.

Pretty much everything, really .:)
 
Haven't picked up a knife in stag yet, but I hope to one day. At the moment, I'm partial to bone for the unique feel and multiple types of jigging, and delrin, for its ability to withstand whatever I throw at it.
 
Carbon Fiber is #1 followed close by G-10 and Titanium...:D

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Sage CF > CF > Ivory Micarta > Canvas Micarta > G10 > Ti > any micrta > everything else
 
It depends on the application, but I definitely prefer warm, colorful, organic materials over drab, "soulless" synthetics, so my preferences, more or less in order:

Antique tortoise shell
Pre-ban ivory
Sambar stag
Fossil walrus ivory
Black and gold lip pearl
White pearl and abalone
Ironwood, ebony and various stabilized hardwoods
Jigged bone

Westinghouse ivory Micarta

Fancy, colorful G-10s like "blue twill" are okay if they're nicely contoured and polished, but I absolutely despise those dull, flat, roughly-textured, cheap-looking slabs of black G-10 that infest so many so-called "tactical" knives these days. :barf:
 
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