New and improved Dymondwood - Yea or Nay?

It's still plywood imho.
If you're on a budget you can use better looking fire wood for scales or get cheap g10 from aliexpress.
 
I love Dymondwood in solid colors. It has been hard to find recently. "Plywood" has layers with alternating grain direction.
This vendor's prices look a little high.
I don't use G10. There is enough dangerous dust in my shop already.
 
Perhaps the Pakistani knives look like MINE?
The Pakis use other common handle materials, too.
Dymondwood is stable, fairly hard-but easy to work, attractive if used properly, and relatively inexpensive.
Does this gun look like it was made in Pakistan?
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The factory that produced the original dymondwood burned down a couple years ago. I think they also made laminated gunstocks . The rosewood dymondwood is very nice looking and makes a nice knife. I bought a bunch of it years ago and still make a knife or two per year with it. Larry
 
i have some rifle stocks in it but woudl put stabilized 2x4 on a knife before wood laminate (ok i joke 2x4 wouldnt work less it at least had nice grain in it )
 
Bill DeShivs said:
Perhaps the Pakistani knives look like MINE?
The Pakis use other common handle materials, too.
Dymondwood is stable, fairly hard-but easy to work, attractive if used properly, and relatively inexpensive.
Does this gun look like it was made in Pakistan?
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In all honesty, with those grips, and nothing to show scale, it looks like a gas station novelty lighter...
 
Bill DeShivs said:
Perhaps the Pakistani knives look like MINE?
The Pakis use other common handle materials, too.
Dymondwood is stable, fairly hard-but easy to work, attractive if used properly, and relatively inexpensive.
Does this gun look like it was made in Pakistan?
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Bill, I like your pistol and I must say that I am surprised at the negative comments about it. Do these same guys tell knife makers that posted their finished knives that they look like Pakistani junk? Seems rude to me. I see a lot of knives now with multicolored scales that look like toys to me but I know that some guys like the stuff so keep my opinion to myself. I also stocked two custom rifles in laminated birch that turned out beautiful. Larry
 
I've been curious about trying some of the camo variations of Dymalux's dymondwood but it is kinda pricey relative to Micarta. On USA knifemaker I could buy a 6"x12"x3/16" sheet of black linen micarta for only $5 more than one set of camo dymondwood scales. Feels kinda iffy to me.

For those of you who don't mind it - do you have any pictures of your knives with dymondwood scales?
 
I'm a big fan of black dymondwood.

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I’ve used it (the old stuff) on several knives. The multi coloured stuff looks tacky to me, but the more natural coloured stuff makes a decent handle on lower cost knives. I really like it for kids first knives. It’s pretty resilient stuff.
 
I like Dymondwood. Super durable, warm to the touch and easy to work. Here's an Old Hickory butcher knife I rehandled in charcoal dymondwood with green G10 liners (shown with a Scrade LB7).

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I've used black and walnut colored dymondwood on handles before, and I think it looked pretty good. I can't say I'm a fan of the handles that have 5 to 7 different colors, or look like a Christmas card.

I suppose any handle material can look good or bad. It depends on a number of things, IMO.
 
allenkey said:
I've been curious about trying some of the camo variations of Dymalux's dymondwood but it is kinda pricey relative to Micarta. On USA knifemaker I could buy a 6"x12"x3/16" sheet of black linen micarta for only $5 more than one set of camo dymondwood scales. Feels kinda iffy to me.

For those of you who don't mind it - do you have any pictures of your knives with dymondwood scales?
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I looked through my pics, and I don’t have any diamondwood pics. Sorry.
 
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