What’s your favorite handle material and style for traditional pocket knives?

[untytled]

I'm a sucker for a good jigged bone as far as looks but my favorites to carry are a smooth ebony and smooth bone. I like the tactile feel of the near seamless transition between organic (bone,wood) and inorganic elements (bolsters)



And a jigged bone for good measure that I'm quite fond of

 

[BladeCommander]

I like snakewood, but it's darn hard to get on production knives. I also like a nice jigged bone, even though I don't have much jigged bone right now. Need to remedy that.

Glennbad recover Boker United stockman.

 

[Corso]

pocket worn jigged bone gets my vote

 

[Prester John]

Case jigged bone, hands down. Wood is second favourite, followed by stag. Don't care for micarta or most synthetics, but I do like Case's yellow Delrin.

 

[Hickory n steel]

Jigged bone, and out of everything I own the peachseed jigged amber bone from Case is my absolute favorite.



Stag is beautiful, but I don't have any.

 

[JM2]

I have had one stag case. A medium stockman. I traded it 20 years ago now. I’m pretty happy with anything but, beautiful bone is hard to beat.