Favorite Natural Handle Material

Looks like we all have good taste in handle materials. Mine are:

Fixed: Sambar Stag, Big Horn, Ironwood, the Ivories. I'm going to have a couple of knives made with polished Big horn, I have pair of Loveless that way and they are beautiful.

Folders: Black Lip, MOP, Sambar Stag, premium bone. I don't like wood on folders.

No particular order, that depends on the style of knife.

Narwhal has been around for awhile, a friend just got knife with it.

Win
 
I use it alot because I love it.....my favorite is high contrast exhibition grade ironwood burls......

Woooo!

Bowie block:
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sunfishman said:
I like most of the natural material as long as it's premium quality, but my favorites are:

Fossil walrus ivory
Black lip pearl
Mammoth ivory
Premium stag
Highly figured black walnut (on bowies, not folders)
Old elephant ivory
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Don covered mine in order.
 
Narwhal ivory
Walrus ivory
Mammoth ivory (blue)
Elephant ivory
Stag
Wood Burls

and ...... giraffe bone in all the colors of the rainbow;) ;)

Marcel
 
On Slipjoints in no paricular order as different patterns work better with certain materials that said I get weak in the knees..when I see Ivory,Remmington bone,White and Black Pearl,Stag and Tortoise Shell backed with Gold leaf!!!
On a fixed Blade
I love Walnut,Ironwood,Blackwood,Ebony and Amboyna..Wenge is damn nice too
I Love Antique preban ivory(paricularly bark elephant),Stag and Sheepshorn too.
I'm a bit off the Fossil Ivories Dont know why I think its cause you might not have found it on blades back in the 1800's

Lastly I love linen Micarta
 
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