Share Your Wood Handled Knives...

[Corso]

could you tell me what model that is i cant quite work it out

 

[johnny twoshoes]

Thats a Buck 501. :thumbup:

 

[Doug Add]

Hard to believe, since I really do like wood handles, but I have sold or traded all my wood handle knives except two.

An inexpensive wood carving wharncliffe in rosewood

And a John Lloyd shadow, also in rosewood

Edited to say, now they are sold also.

 

[black mamba]

Doug, you should know, but the Lloyd sure looks more like ironwood than any rosewood I've ever seen.

 

[Doug Add]

It is more highly figured than most rosewood I have seen, Jeff, but the coloring is similar to the rosewood back and sides on my son's Larrivée guitar. Must have been a particularly burlish piece of rosewood!

 

[rarreola]

 

[Gevonovich]

Wow...what a beautiful Walden!! That one is a classic.

 

[Humppa]

Here are some other wooden handles...

a croatian traditional I got from a good fellow member here at BF

Kind regards
Andi

 

[Modoc ED]

Buck 112

Buck 110

GEC Calf Roper

GEC Powderhorn

Puma 835

Buck 111

 

[2Dead]

American Cherry

American Chestnut

American Walnut

Ancient Kauri wood

Birds Eye Maple

Chinese Quince

Cocobolo

Curly Maple

Desert Ironwood

Ebony

Mexican Bocote

Rosewood

Snakewood

 

[rinos]

Olive wood and rosewood

Bit of color.

Opinel beech...

EKA bubinga

Amboyna

 

[Maniacal Pete]

Nice knives, Gents.

I've just got the one; GEC Sunfish, Cocobolo.

 

[Campbellclanman]

Everybody, its been great looking through this thread again and again, my apologies for being very quiet on the forums-shifting house, and I need to find time in taking a LOT of up-to-date photos, but if I can join in and post some previously shown photos of wood handles, i must update these as some knives are well used now and show the nice patina that just goes with our traditional tastes ....
Camillus/schrade suspects

Carl Schlieper

Thanks to our friend Charlie, these special knives are reborn..

Ulster ... simply a lovely knife..

Ulster again...I love these knives, always will..

There is something about seeing an old HJ ...to me its something pretty special...especially in Ebony...

My neat , tidy Western fixed blade, older than my eldest daughter and very very tidy...

Another neat fixed blade, stolen from me by Fes .

 

[Campbellclanman]

Al Mar Fighter, that I stole from Fes

A 4 line Camillus...fantastic

some more awesome pruners...these are lovely knives from yesteryear

Ebony Case Saddlehorn

another shot of this pruner( Keen Kutter )

 

[Corso]

Thats a Buck 501. :thumbup:

Thanks will need to keep an eye out for one

 

[pertinux]

Another neat fixed blade, stolen from me by Fes .

FES has good taste! That's a beauty, for sure.

~ P.

 

[sitflyer]

another shot of this pruner( Keen Kutter )

That is a nice shot of a really cool knife:thumbup:

 

[biglmbass]

Cocobolo

American Cherry & Snakewood

Lacewood

Coconut Palm

 

[Will Power]

That Lacewood 56 is a remarkable thing!
Fine and rare GEC there.
Regards, Will

 

[The Government]

Hrum hoom! Root and twig! Is anyone else feeling thirsty for an Ent draught yet? ...

Wood is probably my very favorite handle material. I really like seeing "the old and new of things." The older knives show how well wood takes a patina, and the new knives show what the other patinas have been hiding underneath.

Pictured below is a Cattaraugus electrician's knife in cocobolo.

You can see the wood has developed a dark patina. From that alone, you can tell this knife is has seen some years. If I wanted to, I could apply some light sanding to the handles and reveal the more vibrant amber and brown colors underneath, but I really like the aged look.

Hoom Hoom!

Thanks for looking

PS- I am really curious to see how Ancient Kauri wood is going to age!