Handle material preferences and why

Jameson77

Jameson77

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Our favorite knives come in a ton of different handle materials.

As a chef, a butcher, and a mountain madman as well as a collector, I prefer different handles for different uses.

Kitchen work I prefer the cheap ass black plastic on Forschner knives... Same plastic on your typical white handled butcher knives.

On safe queens I prefer burl wood scales, bone, G-rexed cool stuff etc, and users for chopping and pocket knives I prefer Micarta.

I'd have to say G10 is my least favorite feel in hand though they usually look really cool.

What do you like and why?
 
I’m not crazy hard on my knifes (and thank goodness I don’t have to), so I enjoy more beautiful handles and will still use them. I like the feel and aesthetics of the custom handles (usually more ergonomic than the same-shaped machined scales). I enjoy the grip from Micarta. G-10 is my least favorite. Although if I’m getting bloody with an animal, my hygiene sense is telling me to avoid Micarta and favor a custom handle or G-10 so nastiness doesn’t get soaked deeper than I can clean.

So yeah, I have a variety of all of them. Some I use more than others.
 
Crab shack handles! I’m not hard on my stuff , so love the high end looks.
 
Standard cheap ol’ micarta or wood. I beat the daylights outta a lot of my knives, those materials have held up perfectly fine. If I had to pick one, black canvas micarta. Res-C is also worthy of a shout out, performs and feels better that micarta in my opinion, but doesn’t look nowhere as good.
 
Agree on the Forschner, great value.

No more safe queens for me, so it's micarta or Res C. G10 only if it's been blasted or roughed up in some way.
 
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