Show how different jigging patterns/scale materials age

[jec88]

How about a thread to show how different jigging patterns and scale materials age? Just show a well aged knife and list the jigging pattern and or scale material. Usually when I look at a new knife, I think to myself, " I wonder what that would look like if I carried it a long time?" Would a barnboard jigged knife look better than a sawcut jigged or what would a Case pocketworn knife look like after years of actual pocket wear? Just thought it might be a good thread to show off some well worn knives of different materials. Thanks

 

[Modoc ED]

OD Green Canvas Micarta


New:

Used/Aged:

 

[kamagong]

Here's a KHnutbuster straight from the maker's bench.

A few years later.

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Fresh birch bark.

image by Hoodoo

One with a bit of use

New Mora 106.

Mine.

 

[black mamba]

1993 Queen stockman in burnt white bone. Light colored bone nearly always gets darker with use from skin oils.

1975 Schlieper Jim Bowie stockman in yellow delrin. Color gets faded and duller looking.

2007 RAT railsplitter in ram's horn. Carried a lot, the horn gets smoother and smoother.

1983 Fight'n Rooster Eureka jack in burnt stag. Stag gets smoother and yellower, with the torched areas getting lighter.

1939 Keen Kutter cattle knife in jigged bone. Jigging gets shallower and pocket worn, smoothed edges.

1952 Schrade Walden stockman in peachseed jigged bone. Lots of pocket time has smoothed and darkened it a lot.

 

[Ernie1980]

You about covered the bases kamagong, nice work!
As for me personally, I think that stag and darker bone wear the best out of your typical traditional cover materials.