Handle THIS... Question about HOGFSHLE handles, pic request!

Jaxx

Jaxx

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Although this might seem like another shameless thread about my sweeeeeeeeeet HOGFSHLE, it's really MORE about YOURS!!! I just thought that I got lucky with a nicely colored set of slabs on #27, but then Wicked posted a handle shot of #32 (Very NICE, BTW!) and that handle looks more like a Tigerhide Micarta, instead of snakeskin... So, the question is: Why the wide variety? Intentional? Both are equally nice! Are these from TWO different LE offerings?
Ok, fellers, what I'm REALLY asking is... Drop your WIVES & grab your KNIVES, (Sorry, ladies! ...But if any of YOU have one of THESE, then drop your GUYS &... ! ;) :D ) LOL and please take a nice closeup of your HOGFSHLE's handle?!! Let's see if we can get all the different variations of this awesome handle material into one thread, if y'all don't mind humoring me! :thumbup: :D

Jaxx:cool:

PHOTO courtesy of Wicked :thumbup:
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Mine. :D
HOGFSHLE27_Handle_closeup.jpg
 
looks like you have an inner and an outer cut!:eek: ...or maybe there on backwards!!:eek: :eek:

:D
 
aaronjayl said:
Jaxx, you may want to check this thread :)

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=426171&highlight=variation
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Hi, aaronjayl! :D
Well... Great minds think alike!!!! ...Just 3 months APART! That had to be posted while I was just starting to hang out in here. I missed it, and THANXX!!! :D LOL :D Thanks for the LINK, that wuz awesome, all those photos...!! DROOLWORTHY THREAD!!

Hey, PORKGUNNER... LOL your thread's back! Great stuff!!! We need a magazine... PlayBusse... 3 page centerfold, knife of the month, LOL U know! :D :thumbup: :thumbup:
:cool:

I snagged THIS post off of that thread... Originally posted by BLUE LABEL.

#10 09-27-2006, 02:46 PM
Blue Label
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OK fellas lets see if I can clear this up.
The correct term is Tiger hide. However the item in question that is being referred to as Tiger Stripe is in fact the same material as Tiger Hide.

Tiger hide micarta is essentially a layered canvas micarta containing black canvas, a tan colored canvas and resin. Now here's where it gets tricky. The tan canvas, with age, can darken. So we can see a variation of tones in the tan canvas which is what is causing the confusion. All tigerhide micarta starts out the same way.

Also as Progunner pointed out, by oiling the handle you can darken the material, and to throw another loop at you guys, I have found that different oils will also produce different shades.

Tigerhide, like any other multi layered material, can and will have varying shades of color. We have the same thing with our snakeskin micarta. With age, oil and depth of grinding or machining you will get many different variations.

This all adds to the mistique of these materials as every knife truelly has its own special look.

I hope this helps clear a little bit of the confusion. Of course I may have just made it worse.

Anyway to sum up this post, Tiger hide and Tiger stripe, as it has been called elsewhere, are the same material however appearance of said material can vary.

Too much typing I need a drink,
Garth
 
Just as a for instance, here is my former HOFSHLE and HOGSJTLE:

hogsjtletigerstripes.jpg


Rick - wishing the LEs came in magnum snakeskin....
 
Jaxx

Seach the forum
I posted some pictures of the #27 and the #411 with magnum tiger micarta handles. Image shack is crap and I lost my pictures.

Cheers,

André
 
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