Knife Makers - Please show your favorite knife you've made with a fancy wood handle.

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Knife makers, please show us your favorite knife you have made during the past year using fancy wood for handle material

I know there have been a lot of beautiful knives made during the past year that we may not have seen here on BF. This thread would be a place to post a photo of a knife you made that you were particularly proud of. Lately I have been amazed by some of the knives I have seen made where the maker not only used beautiful wood for the handle, but also shaped or sculpted the handle into it's own work of art.
Just to start things out I am posting a photo of a knife made using redwood burl by forum member BigBlue17. I am assuming this was one of his favorites.

 

[Lon Humphrey]

curly maple hands down my fav:thumbup:

 

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curly maple hands down my fav:thumbup:

Let's see a photo of your favorite knife you've made.

 

[J. Neilson]

This is certainly one of my favorites to date...

http://www.mountainhollow.net/bowieknives2.htm

 

[Fiddleback]

My current favorite is a board of curly quartersawn Red Oak that I got recently.

Check out this flamey corchety stabalized Maple I got from Woodman.

 

[Robert Dark]

I sort of like this stuff.

Stabilized and Double Dyed Box Elder

Robert

 

[ArtinNC]

How about spalted beech??

 

[Jarrett Knives]

Here is my Three Burl Hunter....In Box Elder, Amboina, and Buckeye Burl

 

[CJBULL]

African Blackwood, Ivory, choice walnut

 

[Snody]

Knife makers, please show us your favorite knife you have made during the past year using fancy wood for handle material

Great Thread.

Dude, your wood rocks....everything I have ordered from you has been off the chain....

Much Respect...

 

[bacustomknives]

HERE IS A COUPLE,THANKS MARK,THE LAST 2 ARE W.I.P,THEYLL BE DONE SOON

 

[Karl B. Andersen]

This one got my attention, mostly because of oddity/rarity/uniqueness.
Sheoak "Rays".
There are many others far more beautiful and luxuriant with fantastic chatoyance, etc., but this is an uncommon cut from this wood due to the amount of loss to acquire it.
I've only seen three so far, and I have two of them!

Besides that one it's pretty tough to beat top quality end-grain spalted maple:

 

[JADknives]

Here's mine. Double dye box elder.

 

[puukkopekka]

Curly birch

www.puukkopekka.com

 

[M.Griffin]

Here's one I just finished:

-Mike

Redwood burl

One more with buckeye burl from you:

 

[Lon Humphrey]

here is the stuff i like

 

[dbl-edge]

Knife makers, please show us your favorite knife you have made during the past year using fancy wood for handle material

Just one? You've got to be kidding! I like working with wood more than most other handle materials. Clero walnut and koa are probably my personal favorites, but I like others too.

Here are some made last year and this.

1. Stabilized curly koa, with damascus and gold.

2. Natural koa with a hand rubbed oil (actually polyurethane formulated for rubbing) finish, with Foster's laminate and damascus.

3. Very old stabilized tulip poplar from T. Jefferson's estate, Montecelo, with W2 and cast bronze.

4. Stabilized rhododendron burl, with bronze and damascus.

5. Natural koa with a marble-like grain, with stainless and damascus.

 

[RogerP]

Perhaps my all time favorite knife - made over a sleepless long weekend with Dan Farr and Matt Gregory:

With my favorite wood - black walnut - for the handle:

Koa is running a very close second, but I have yet to use any on a knife of my own making. Hoping to change that soon.

Roger

 

[dbl-edge]

Koa is running a very close second, but I have yet to use any on a knife of my own making. Hoping to change that soon.

Roger

You'll like the koa, Roger. From the standpoint of making a knife handle, there's not much difference between it and walnut. Fairly stable if properly dried, similar grain structure, and they both take finishes the same. When you need a good block of koa, give Bill F. a call. He's buying up the entire world supply!

David

 

[RogerP]

You'll like the koa, Roger. From the standpoint of making a knife handle, there's not much difference between it and walnut. Fairly stable if properly dried, similar grain structure, and they both take finishes the same. When you need a good block of koa, give Bill F. a call. He's buying up the entire world supply!

David

I actually have a nice piece from Bill that I have ear marked for a finished hunter blade - but it's competing against a nice piece of popcorn stag.

Some great wood and great knives shown in this thread guys. :thumbup:

Roger