sunnyd,
Nailed it!
Natural materials are best, so what does man do?
He tries to replicate, he gets close, still can never do what is natural.
I like the yellow, as I can see it, and the Delrin is pretty impervious to chemicals, and takes being dropped with less chance of breaking.
Tools for tasks in environment. is another key to not just knives, any tool.
My yellow handles have "character", some call these dings, nicks, and scratches.
Some are naturally occurred, then again I admit, I might take a emery board and smooth up a spot which leaves it rough, or do so on purpose.
Buck and Old Timer use Delrin as well, and they both have fine lines to add purchase to a knife.
I like natural materials, ivory is grippy, even when wet.
Boker Rosewood is another material I like, and for me has worked very well, on the Tree brand small pen knife [8288i ?] and 240 , and others in that line.
I like the Carbon steel, the rosewood, the etched blade.
I like the Case CV in Amber bone, and the Red bone, I wish they did more offerings in handles for CV blades.
Being honest, I feel Case has forgotten users, and focus on collectors, which I understand having to make money, still this upsets me.
Right now with all sorts of things from the past, and more recent past, my little yeller peanut with CV is what I have. I have a history with the Peanut, and not just the yeller handles.
Mother Nature and Disasters have taken from me so much, and I don't have any of what I used to.
All my customs are gone, all my ivory , stag, and bone are gone.
I had some off site in places, and maybe I still have some yellow ones, but if not, I have a yeller cv Peanut.
My other YH CVs are gone, Barehead Slimline Trapper, Mini-Trapper, Sodbuster Jr, even my sentimental Peanuts, and back up Peanuts.
I am in the experiment still, as I it really is not an experiment for having used one for so many years, just now on another Peanut, and this one is more sentimental (if there is such a thing) than the sentimental one lost in the last Tornadoes that ripped through here.
Oh I have thought about a Red Bone Peanut with CV just...right now, so much is gone and not a priority.
Tornadoes got some sentimental guns of mine recently, I was Lucky and one was fine, in its spot in that off site place.
That was the only one, as I lost quite a few guns at that location.
I was fussed at to take care of me, and go check on my stuff, though I wanted to assist others.
There will always be someone worse off and better off than I.
So right now it is not a priority on some things.
I miss what is gone, and can't feel to replace them, as there is no way to have the attachment what I had with replacements.
I miss the people now passed , and I cannot put the memories into a new, just make new ones.
I have really given serious thought to not carrying a yh cv Peanut, as so much negative has occurred since January when the experiment started.
Mr. Murphy hates me, and again he has brought so much negative into my life , and finding something I care about to hurt me.
So I have been pressing on, and it hurt to lose that sentimental Peanut, and it hurt too my guns twisted, and bent and having to be destroyed.
I get with the bunch I run with, and I pass on to a kid with YH SAk Classic how it is slippery, but maybe doing it this way will work better.
Hers was new, too shiny and not "broke in" like my Peanut, or other knives.
So we used it, and then hurried up the character.
I stuck in a cigar box with some coins, screws, washers and shook it.
Then we cleaned it up and it has "character" and not as slippery when wet.
Handles of MOP scratch and break.
Bone and Stag crack and break too.
Metal is hot in the summer and cold in the winter, and is slippery.
There is no absolutes in all this.
Inspect, and Maintain is the key.
Humans have for some reason gotten lazy and spoiled, and in a search for a easier softer way.
There is no Holy Grail, but humans keep searching for one, or trying to make one.
Nature provides the answer to so many of life's questions, just we humans do not pay attention and learn from what is proven.
We want a knife that we don't have to sharpen, will not rust, have patina, a handle that is good looking and we keep running to the newest steel and this, that and the other.
Animals have tools for tasks for environments and they don't run to the next latest greatest.
Neither do trees, or anything else natural.
Oh there is nothing blasphemy in adapting to environment, Animals and Trees for instance are equipped for settings and they too adapt to environments as needed.
Sometimes we humans are in a hurry going nowhere.
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