Favorite Micarta Handled Folders

Lenny

Lenny

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Just like the title says, what are your faves?
About the only one I can think of at the time is the Lone Wolf City Knife.
Love that green micarta.
Lenny
 
For the past month it has been the micarta/G-10 of my BM Rukus. The green canvas micarta looks great.
 
Do inlays count?

I'll have to give the nod to the micarta inlaid Sebenza.
 
One of my EDCs is a Mcusta Basic with "green" Micarta scales. It isn't really very green though; it's made of alternating layers of black and an orangish/tan color Micarta.

I still hate myself for selling my Large Spyderco Calypso several years ago. That was an extremely nice knife, and almost impossible to find now in plain edge. :(
 
The Mcusta's are really great looking knives. My favorite is the damascus w/the VG-10 core and white Corian handles. Corian seems similar in a lot of ways to paper micarta.

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I like green canvas micarta about as well as anything else, which coming from me is odd to hear. I have always preferred natural handle materials and never used anything else until recently. Green micarta seems to hold up very well and in many ways works like wood but has some qualities that make it even more appealing. Like not warping and stuff like that. Of all the Micarta folders I have my favorites are the one in my signiture line which is a Chris Reeve small Sebenza blade that was sold after it was replaced with a new one and my Dick Atkinson lock back folder. Dick made good use of green canvas micarta and his lock backs are the smoothest opening folders around if you haven't tried them. Most of that is attributed to the micarta since there are no steel liners. His blades just glide open on the smooth polished inside of the micarta handles much like the A.G. Russell Brute which is another fine "Rucarta" (Russell plus Micarta for a coral colored Rucarta) folder.

Something about the hunter green color and the olive drab appeal of the green canvas micarta is tough to equal for me. I really like it a lot and figure I'll be using it a lot more since just getting a chance to work with it for the first time on my new EDC knife I put together to make use of someone elses discarded Small Sebbie blade.

STR
 
Not being a big fan of artificial handle materials, I don't own many Micarta knives. Of the few I own, my favorite is a midsize Japanese-made lockback by Soque River. Smooth action, and very well made.

-Bob
 
Boozoo Chavis said:
The Mcusta's are really great looking knives. My favorite is the damascus w/the VG-10 core and white Corian handles. Corian seems similar in a lot of ways to paper micarta.
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Yeah, that knife looks fantastic with white scales. :thumbup:

Here's a pic of the Mcusta with green Micarta scales:
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I'm pretty sure its scales are made from paper Micarta, though maybe it's highly polished linen Micarta. It definitely looks and feels a lot different than canvas Micarta. It's smooth and dense, and you can't really see any "grain" in it.
 
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