Favorite material for scales? And why?

[calm]

Snakewood, desert ironwood.... they are all pretty

 

[Redmeadow Knives]

I gotta go with Stacked Leather as a favorite. As far as the why, it's lightweight, warm to the touch and has good grip.


For synthetic I really like Richlite. Strong, lightweight and just feels nice.

 

[rodendahl]

Carbon fiber

and titanium

 

[David Mary]

Five pages before Suretouch? Incroyable!

 

[luethge]

Micarta ( Linen, Canvas, burlap & firehose ).
Res C ( Magical Busse Rubber from the future and the past, simultaneously ).
Sure-touch ( Strangely comfortable extremely grippy rubberized G10 ).

 

[David Mary]

luethge that's quite the OhMY!Carta collection!

 

[luethge]

David Mary - thank you. Wish I could say I was able to keep them all.. some have found forever homes ( I think ). Keeps things flowing

 

[Alone]

David Mary - thank you. Wish I could say I was able to keep them all.. some have found forever homes ( I think ). Keeps things flowing

If you ever find yourself wanting to off-load your largest Gossman, I'm your man. (*I'm never fast enough to score one. )

 

[Alone]

I'm a "rough" G10 guy, myself.

However, a little Winkler "Sculpted Maple" always gets my juices flowin'...

 

[Josh1992]

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Micarta ( Linen, Canvas, burlap & firehose ).
Res C ( Magical Busse Rubber from the future and the past, simultaneously ).
Sure-touch ( Strangely comfortable extremely grippy rubberized G10 ).

Awesome collection man

 

[pjart]

Titanium and carbon fiber are my preferences. I especially like pattern welded titanium (timascus) and lightning strike carbon fiber. I don't care for wood or micarta. Honorable mention to zirconium and mammoth tusk.

I would love to know what brand/model knife these are.

 

[Glenn Goodlett]

I would love to know what brand/model knife these are.

Five Jason Clarks and a David Clark.

Jason Clark- Spanish tipped razor.
Jason Clark- Tanto Flipper (early version).
Jason Clark- Tanto Flipper.
Jason Clark- Straight dagger flipper.
Jason Clark- Tanto Flipper.
David Clark- Fusion.

 

[kafolarbear]

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Micarta all the way! I love the texture, how the color changes and how grippy it gets with moisture, how it’s tough as hell and only really scuffs I’d hit with something hard. I’m partial the natural micarta but I’ve also experimented with green micarta, although I’ve been yet to get the exact shade of green I want.

 

[dirc]

As a carpenter my favourite material is wood. I'd choose a little used wood now due to cost in a heartbeat - Boxwood - which is very strong and tough, I've 100+ year old boxwood handled chisels which have taken a beating with a mallet and are still perfect.

It's expensive now and rarely used as it's difficult to work with but perfect for lathe work.

I never realized it was expensive now... it seems fairly common, are most of the ones found in north america from the european variety? aka buxus sempervirens

Buxus sempervirens - Wikipedia

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anyway, nice wood often what I prefer on knives... desert ironwood - olneya tesota

Olneya - Wikipedia

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also love the other 'ironwood' in north america - which I really like, but seems hardly anyone uses is hophornbeam - aka - ostrya virginiana

Ostrya virginiana - Wikipedia

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I have a wonderful walking stick made from an old growth (slow growth) hophornbeam on my land, which I made more than a dozen years ago... tree is still alive and well, I just used a lower straight branch which was not getting much sun and hardly growing

of course I'm sucker for some good curly birch - betula pendula - specifically the visakoivu (in finland) or carelica ('birch' is used for many other species also, and dominate much of the world)

Betula pendula - Wikipedia

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