Let's See Some Natural Handles

[dtownknifekid]

When I got my Kurt Swearingen Bird&Trout i got addicted to natural handles. So here are mine.
K.A. Swearingen Bird and trout Handle is red maple burl

BRKT mini Fox River Handle is speckled Ambrosia. By far the purdiest knife in my collection.

So yeah what I'm saying is I dislike the new agressively textured synthetic fad and like the elegance and class of a nice natural handle on fixed blades or traditionals. Modern folders are different though. I dont like kydex much either for belt knives. So let me see your natural handles anything from antlers, to bone, to wood, to pearl. I want to see it all

 

[ndeezl]

Stag

Ironwood Burl

Mammoth (unfortunately no longer mine)

Elephant Ivory

Abalone

 

[Edwood7]

The curly maple on my Winkler belt knife is beautiful. Daniel Winkler gives the wood a tecture that helps give the handle an excellent grip.

 

[Bob W]

I definitely prefer natural handle materials. Wood, bone, stag...

Stacked leather from Marbles:

Amboynia burl, by Bark River:

Cocobolo, by Paragon:

Closeup of Koa wood, by Case:

Stag, by Daniel Prentice:

Jigged bone by Schade Old Timer:

Bone, by Jim Rehrer

Last one, some outstanding bone by Canal Street Cutlery:

 

[rjdankert]

Mcusta Quincewood

Northfield Stag

 

[Sithus1966]

Birdseye maple on my Lauri Puukko.

 

[nipsip]

Olive wood.

 

[grybsh7]

Mike Snody Menace with Musk ox.

Wendell Carson Fightin Bull trapper with mammoth bark ivory.

 

[NPE]

pat crawford - mammoth bark
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bob loveless - stag
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dave steier - black lip pearl
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phill Sr. - 25 year old, well worn shedua wood
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[leomitch]

Here is my ESEE-4 with museum grade Bird's Eye Maple slabs by Randy Chinn. Not the best picture but you can see the wood pretty nicely.

My Bark Eiver Gunny with Desert Ironwood handle.

A Helle Temagami with Curly Masur Birch rubbed with Boiloed Linseed Oil

My highly prized ESEE-6 also with museum grade wood, Honduran Rosewood Burl slabs by Randy Chinn again.

My Bark River STS-5 with Cocobolo slabs by, you guessed it, Randy Chinn

Fallkniven SK-1 Jarl with Curly Masur Birch as is common with Scandinavian knives

And last but not least my lovely Bark River Bravo 1 in Spalted Maple...here it is next to the STS-5 with its G-10 slabs before it got its Cocobolo handle.

Cheers
Leo

 

[CUTS LIKE A KRIS]

I'll play:
?maple?

Cocobolo and ebony

Rosewood:

Mammoth:

Lacewood:

Bone:

 

[CUTS LIKE A KRIS]

Stag (bone on bottom)

Swordfish

Bloodwood:

Musk ox and caribou:

Blackwood:

And last for (now):
Osage, Padauk, stag.

 

[dtownknifekid]

Nice blades, or well handles, guys keep it up.

 

[HoosierQ]

Stag

Walnut recycled from 100 year old wood work in my boyhood home.

Curly Arctic Birch

 

[rinos]

 

[Myal]

kinda humble offering looking at whats been posted

but one I made a fair while ago that the pic dont do justice to

 

[Peregrin]

English Walnut

California Buckeye Burl

Stag
Don Morrow

Joel Chamblin

Joel Chamblin WT, Jerry Halfrich fixed blade

 

[dtownknifekid]

Very nice guys. I'll have some more to add when I get back from my friends grad party. Now for a question: Does anyone know how stacked leather handles are made?

 

[Slider817]

Ahti Metsa

 

[Slider817]

Something From Blind Horse Knives, I forget the model