Handle scales on traditional knives

bozack said:
I like horn. Rams horn particularly. Smooth or rough. I also like Buffalo horn.
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Nice ones!
The smooth Rams horn looking very interesting. What kind and year of GEC pattern is this?

Fantastic Snakewood collection:thumbup:
I like this too, because of its waivy kind of grain.
 
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Macchina said:
I like wood (especially Ebony and Blackwood):


And knives meant for work are great in Micarta:


But my favorite would have to be stacked leather with a bit of Micarta and Brass thrown in:
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Wow, great Stuff Macchina!

What is the TC handle made of? Dark wood with slightly grain is amazing..

I like the handle-background-combination on this micarta picture the most. Looks well worn to me..:thumbup:

Stacked leather would be awesome on a pocket knife,
but it seems to appear only on bigger fixed blades?
 
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Lots of good looking wood covers in this thread! I've always leaned towards jigged bone, but I think I need to start looking into some nice woods. :thumbup:
 
I haven't ever really liked natural stag in hand, but sawcut bone and jigged bone are great. I think from best to worst would be sawcut derlin, jigged bone, and derlin stag. I just love how derlin feels in hand, and it's cheaper and less worrisome. I also am a big fan of smooth acrylic, because it feels kinda tacky in hand to me, and looks great. I might try your mod on a beater one day, it's pretty daring and looks GREAT.

Connor
 
Thank You Connor.
I had some filing/sanding practice on metal before, which was very helpful.
Bone handles are more soft of course and the material came off quite fast, so it isn't that much work actually.

I haven't had the opportunity to check out Delrin, but viewed great pictures of older Case knives with these handles.
 
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Jigged bone in classic colors.... Old Schrade Peachseed Jigging or Old Case Corn Cob. Dark Red, Chestnut, Case old Green Bone
 
Thanks Woodrow, just looked up Old Schrade Peachseed Jigging on BF, very nice!
I didn't notice You have a thread running about good bone jigging, interesting stuff and lots of cool pics! :thumbup:
The Green Bone I saw on an old Case Tested EO Jack Knife, still makes me dreaming of it...:rolleyes:
 
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I like lightly burned and softly jigged bone handles on traditional knives a lot.
On my Antique Amber #25, I tried to go one step further than on the orange little Jack shown above.

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Last step after filing and sanding: fine finish


Cleaned




BUT: two of the rivets became loose, because I took off too much material!
The handle scales got loose from the brass frame and a little gap became visible,
so I had to take these two out (unfortunately a little piece of bone broke here)...






If You ever want to try this kind of handle mod, be very careful!
On some of my knives it worked well, but here it didn't!

Anyway, color and jigging have become nice:rolleyes:,
and now I know how the spring looks like and how it works.
Hopefully I can make new rivets and get everything tight again...
 
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It took me a while to get this done.
Finally I found some round brass, a good hammer and a small anvil.



Ready for use...:)
(GEC #25 Northfield in "Aged Antique Amber Jigged Bone" ;))

 
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