G10 and Customs - Anyone else feel this way?

If you are buying a back packing knife, a filet knife, or a skinner, there is nothing better than an orange or yellow G10 handles. If you set the knife down while preparing your dehydrated meal at dusk, a wood or green handle may not show up very well. When you are skinning a deer, it seems like it's always dusk or dark - yellow or orange will show up much better. When you drop your filet knife in the stream, yellow or orange will show up much better. Granted, wood handles look much nicer, but for pure practicality, I don't think you can beat brightly colored G10. Just my opinion.

Tim
 
I think it depends on what you are doing with a knife. In almost any circumstance I would prefer stabilized wood as a scale or handle material, but g10 and other synthetics have their place as tough as nails materials that won't fail on you.
 
I love g10 if it's done properly I'm fine with it on expencive knives. Sometimes wood or ivory or more exotic stuff doesn't suite the knife.
 
I don't think these are so bad.




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Micarta with ti liners, backspacer, and hardware.



 
Cutlover said:
G10 is plastic. More speficially, G10 is made from fiberglass, which is plastic with glass fibers. Research it :thumbup:

Plastic is an extremely broad category of materials though, I can see where the confusion could happen.
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Once again...no. Like stabman said, its a fiberglass and resin laminate. Just because the fiberglass is plastic doesn't mean the laminate is.

That's like saying canvas micarta is cotton.
 
I think anything but G10 or Carbon Fiber would look like trash on some knives. I don't think I would gravitate toward a custom Strider with stabilized wood handles. The titanium looks good, but I dig G10. Looks are a secondary concern to me. I like the grip checkered g10 provides.
 
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You think this looks cheap? I don't.
 
I like G-10, tends to keep the prices down, I like how it feels, and it can be formed well.

I guess the only handle material I haven't warmed to is aluminum. I am sure I could probably find a good example that would change my mind, but so far the only aluminum handled knives I have encountered have seemed too light to be substantial and too cold and slick to feel comfortable.

So far it has seemed to embody the worst of both synthetic/metal handle worlds.
 
I'm not a fan of art knives. If I'm buying a custom, it's because I want the best, and because I would like it to be nice at the same time. Because of this, I'm okay with G-10 on a knife at that price point but might opt for carbon fiber. I like how it manages to be almost as strong but significantly lighter than G-10.

My favorite folding knife has a G-10 handle and I wouldn't want to change it. It's beautiful and grippy at the same time.
 
I love G10 and micarta. They have their own grain and look fantastic when polished, even when it's just a single piece of G10. Make a different-colored phenolic bolster, or combine with titanium, zirconium, damascus, mokume... the choices are pretty endless.

And functionally it's probably the best handle material. I know we're still in the middle of the titanium framelock craze, but I like G10 or micarta onlays or presentation side scales. When you live someplace cold, all-metal handles are not always desirable...
 
I don't mind seeing custom g10 on a custom knife, so long as it looks like it was custom done...
If it looks like it was the same mass produced, mass milled slab of the stuff you can find on a run of the mill production knife, and they just slapped it on a $400+ mid-tech/custom and ground the edges to size, yes, I agree it looks cheap, but of it looks like a piece designed specifically for, and milled specifically for a high end knife, with some more then "run-of-the-mill" texturing oflver plain black, then I think it looks great.

The material itself to me isn't the issue, it's how well the material is finished to compliment the specific knife at the specific price point...
 
Material seems to be fairly irrelevant when it comes to the price of custom knives.

Who made the knife, and it's availability seem to have far more to do with the actual price....you can add something on there for flavor of the month as well.

Nothing wrong with G10 as a handle material, regardless of the price of the knife.
Value will always come down to the factors I listed above.
 
Love G10, it makes me want to use the knife instead of admire it, regardless of the price of the knife.
 
somber said:
Because carbon fiber is such a hideous material...

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Especially on knives...

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Don't get me wrong, carbon fiber looks cool. And in my opinion, very few materials can best marbled carbon fiber in looks (though I have a hard time finding many MCF knifes for some reason). I just don't like lightweight things that I don't feel are meant to be lightweight (like knives). That bodega by the way looks like beautiful unicorn tears, excellent taste :thumbup: .....not feeling the car though, looks a bit too old fashioned with that scheme....solid black and gold or red combo, and that would be insane
 
Dang, I love that Begg. If this thread turns into a GAW, I'm in. [emoji12]

Used to like anything g10, then CF, then Ti. Still love all of them, but now need shape to turn me on. No matter the material, I like sculpted/milled finishes. But unfortunately full customs are above my pay grade.

Here's one of my newest deliveries. Very far from custom, but with the shaped Ti and G10 inlays, I think it looks great....especially considering the price tag well under two bills. And it doesn't hurt to have an action that rivals any of my best bearing pivots. So yeah, I'll still take some g10.

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