How about some EsKabar pics?

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Here's my Esky. Its had a couple different looks so far.
I started out with a nice cord wrap which was comfy in the hand, but just absorbed too much crap. Fat, catfish guts, grease; just got too nasty to deal with. Then was gifted an awsome set of Izula slabs and have been loving it!

Original Wrap
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In use!
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New Hotness!
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I put this wrap on shortly after I got it. I like the strider-type wrap because if I should need the cord for something, it comes off quick. I also don't gut the cord, so it's got some meat to the grip if I need to do some serious cutting or batoning.
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Handle wraps? Don't need on stinkin' handle wraps.

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While paracord handle wraps look great (and there are some extremely well done examples in this thread) they are a magnet for dirt, slime, crud and all sorts of nasty things that inhabit the real world. I prefer my skeleton knives nekked.

Here's one reason. I do a lot of fishing, and it's a dirty, slimy activity. A paracord wrap would last about one trip before it got too funky and would need replacement. Note the handle of my BK-14 poking up just above the dorsal fin of the nice rainbow I caught yesterday (Yeah, yeah, I know. It's a gratuitous bragging rights picture, but it does help prove the point):

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No worries about the metal handle getting too funky to bring back into the house, and when it does get yukky and slimy I just dunk it in the river (in this case the Toccoa in North Georgia) and it's all fresh again!
 
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I food prep with my bk-14 all the time. I haven't had a problem with dirty paracord yet, just wash the blade and it's good to go again. The nylon washes off reasonably well. However, I do keep my remora's unwrapped, they'd be my first choice for cleaning fish or small game. I'd have a similar worry about micarta. Anyone know how it cleans up? I have it on my 10, but havn't really put the 10 through it's paces yet...
 
My Beckers are just tools, so I really don't care how dirty the handles get.

I don't wash my screwdrivers either.:eek::D (I guess if it got covered in fish guts, I would wipe it down though):D

Nice fish, northingeasting!
 
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