hookahhabib
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I'm hoping this works out better than that one time I yelled "show me your phenolics!" at a Mardi Gras party years ago :facepalm:
Show me your rare, unusual, hard-to-find, cool looking, [insert your adjective of choice here] Bussekin micarta! I want to see it all!
I am a bit of a micarta fetishist. I know there are some of you out there.
The only thing more exciting to me than an INFI blade is an INFI blade attached to a great handle.
In my almost 20 years of being obsessed with quality knives, I've enjoyed lots of different stuff. As as think back and remember past knives, and even today as I continue to chase them, the handles attached to blades coming from Jerry and everyone at the team in Wauseon continue to be some of the best ones I've enjoyed. Both in feel and function as well as appearance. Busse continues to reign supreme when it comes to unusual and interesting micarta.
Ever since first seeing some of the amazing micarta scales on Busse knives when my lurking started (about 2009 IIRC), I have had a fascination for unconventional micartas. I've seen some cool patterns from certain makers of the material and it can get while....still doesn't touch what I've seen from old Busse classics.
The tigerhide, the snake skin, the green linen, the 2-colored stuff on the competition finish BWMs from Cupidganzaaa 2011 (or maybe it was the ganzaa after it?), the super fine thread tigeride linen on the SFNO LEs (and also FBM LEs?), and well you know the list goes on...and they're pretty much all beautiful, eye catching, and great feeling materials. The "grain" patterns that come about with handle shaping add one more layer of visual stimulation that continues to fascinate me.
Unfortunately my collection is painfully small these days, for now at least, but I'll start by contributing what I can here...
Here's some classic black canvas that kinda looks greenish gray (from age I think?) on my BAD:
That last pic I took to appreciate the thINFI, but it's interesting to me that the fibers appear to be light gray and perhaps it's the resin itself giving the black color - something I've wondered about for years now actually.
Not 100% sure what this is since the colors are slightly different from what I remember the OG green linen looking like. I dig it though:
I'm so over the top smitten with them both.
I'd love to see some what other interesting handles and micarta lives among us here...
Show me your rare, unusual, hard-to-find, cool looking, [insert your adjective of choice here] Bussekin micarta! I want to see it all!
I am a bit of a micarta fetishist. I know there are some of you out there.
The only thing more exciting to me than an INFI blade is an INFI blade attached to a great handle.
In my almost 20 years of being obsessed with quality knives, I've enjoyed lots of different stuff. As as think back and remember past knives, and even today as I continue to chase them, the handles attached to blades coming from Jerry and everyone at the team in Wauseon continue to be some of the best ones I've enjoyed. Both in feel and function as well as appearance. Busse continues to reign supreme when it comes to unusual and interesting micarta.
Ever since first seeing some of the amazing micarta scales on Busse knives when my lurking started (about 2009 IIRC), I have had a fascination for unconventional micartas. I've seen some cool patterns from certain makers of the material and it can get while....still doesn't touch what I've seen from old Busse classics.
The tigerhide, the snake skin, the green linen, the 2-colored stuff on the competition finish BWMs from Cupidganzaaa 2011 (or maybe it was the ganzaa after it?), the super fine thread tigeride linen on the SFNO LEs (and also FBM LEs?), and well you know the list goes on...and they're pretty much all beautiful, eye catching, and great feeling materials. The "grain" patterns that come about with handle shaping add one more layer of visual stimulation that continues to fascinate me.
Unfortunately my collection is painfully small these days, for now at least, but I'll start by contributing what I can here...
Here's some classic black canvas that kinda looks greenish gray (from age I think?) on my BAD:
That last pic I took to appreciate the thINFI, but it's interesting to me that the fibers appear to be light gray and perhaps it's the resin itself giving the black color - something I've wondered about for years now actually.
Not 100% sure what this is since the colors are slightly different from what I remember the OG green linen looking like. I dig it though:
I'm so over the top smitten with them both.
I'd love to see some what other interesting handles and micarta lives among us here...
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