Scale/Handle Materials You Don't/Didn't Like?

[evilgreg]

For a folding pocket knife I like everything. Variety is the spice of life and all that. I have Southard scales in a crazy range of materials (this isn't even all of them):

For a knife meant for a specific purpose I may be more choosy (e.g. if I was going to be processing game or fishing or whatever in the cold and wet I wouldn't want a metal handled knife).

I will say, various forms of plastic have really grown on me. I used to think they were cheap and crappy, but now I respect their thermal and grip properties as well as how much I've underrated their strength and durability. I spend a lot of time levering and wrenching and generally abusing linerless plastic-handled CS knives and they just shake off everything I throw at them. And Spyderco knives with that crazy grip pattern on their plastic handles are fantastic. It may be ugly, but I've never felt like my grip on my Manix 2 LW was uncertain.

 

[3fifty7]

Despise carbon fiber, although the shred can be pretty cool. Also despise brass.

Dislike Dymond wood and other laminated wood.

Really like most all G10 and Micarta, Stabilized burl and spalted woods, nice Stag or Mammoth ivory and tooth.

Love hard woods, Ironwood-Ebony-Cocabola-Rosewood

 

[Legendary_Jarl]

Bull horn. Too brittle. The knife also smelled like beef soup.

 

[GB940Rookie]

Not a fan of slick Ti scales or FRN

 

[sharp_edge]

Aluminum, stag, and bone are on my low list. I like cf and ti the most, followed by g10.

 

[Bill1170]

In fixed blades I like wood, antler, and canvas micarta. In folders I gravitate to fibered composites like G-10, FRN, and CF.

I dislike metal handles (aluminum, brass, stainless, and titanium) and slick plastics. Jigged bone can be very nice on traditionals.

 

[bflying]

I plan on giving it a shot over christmas when I have some time off. I pretty much just need the phosphate and some Titanium Wire, since I have access to everything else from work/can borrow it.

This thread began from my "Ano Curious" stage a couple Christmas' ago.

https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/anodizing-ti-diy-at-home.1457216/

I've been hot and cold over different materials more often over the years than I can keep track of. But, some of my early likes and dislikes came about because of cheaper knives that may have misrepresented. Like pretty basic plastic labeled G10. Or very cheap material layup sold as Micarta, etc.

 

[SpySmasher]

I don't really like "plastic-y" feeling materials like FRN. The engineering part of my brain says "great choice" but the rest of my brain says "feels cheap."

Don't like LSCF.

I love bone when it is smooth but hate when it's jigged.

 

[b00n]

Speaking of Handle Materials, Raffir Noble and Blue Twill are two that I really want to get in hand sometime.

 

[mete]

For a knife used as a hunting knife texture is important .Polished is bad - a knife handle wet with blood , water, snow can even be dangerous ! One useful one has a fiber of expands cotton canvas . The cotton absorbs and expands adding a good gripping surface.