what is your favorite handle material?

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comments please on favorite handle material. I am really getting tired of black g-10.

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Dennis Bible
 
I live in a fairly temperate zone, and so prefer steel handles on many knives, titanium and aluminum is great on a folder. Micarta is also a favorite, and very attractive as well, and I like carbon fiber despite the prevalence of black. G-10 does not even make my list, as I am not fond of the texture at all.

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James Segura
San Francisco, CA
 
gotta do three

Looks- curly maple (or some burl types)
Function- textured G10 (sorry)
Fondling- polished micarta (with a hint of fabric grain) (i.e. Spydie Viele)
 
Wood. Two thirds of my fixed blade custom knives have a variety of different kinds of stabilized wood handles/scales: walnut burl, bocote, desert ironwood, tiger maple, maple burl, stab willow root, rosewood, etc. About of third of the collection has stag, bone, mammoth ivory or hippopotamus tooth handles/scales.
 
Good polished carbon fiber the 3D effect looks great,,matt G10 (green and black) also a good choice IMHO,,and for the dress up folder ivory with defined but stable cracks I think it adds character to the knife.

Kevin
 
1 - Ironwood
2 - Oosic
3 - Any burl wood (Amboyna, Maple, Thuya, Etc.)
4 - Stag

I like linen micarta for using knives.

Barry
Jones Knives
 
Ive been adding blue and red spacers to my knives with black G10. It adds a little something to the black,bead blast look.
I sold more hunters this season with stabilized wood than any other material. Everyone that has USED their stabilized wood handled knives report that just a little Renaisance wax brings them back to new.
Stag seems to be a thing of the past for some reason.
I just used that last of some WILD carbon fiber that I got from an airboat prop. I wish I could get more. It was the nicest looking carbon fiber I have ever seen! It had sort of a hex shaped weave through it. That would be my favorite handle material of all time.
Neil


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Stag!
Who said, "nothing will sell a knife as fast as a good piece of stag"?
No, no, no besides me!
 
Desert Ironwood or Cocobolo.

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have a"knife"day
 
1. Aluminum
2. Micarta
3. Titanium


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"Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav'n"
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My favorites are stag, bone, micarta, and nice pieces of different hardwoods. I would love to work with ivory but alas, the value of my blades have not reached the ivory status yet (maybe soon though).

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Ray Kirk
www.tah-usa.net/raker
 
Elephant Ivory. I just put some from Texas Knife makers supply onto a hand rubbed mirror finish backpacker blade from the late Bob Engnath (sic) anfd I love the feel and subtle look on it when it is polished out!. I wonder if the yellow aging will be even nicer!
 
Stag!!!
Of the many handmade knives I own, probably 85% are stag. Just remember to wipe them down with baby oil twice a year for 15 minutes then make sure to wipe it all off so it's not slippery.

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Dave
Wharton,NJ


 
I like oosik a lot, followed by African Blackwood, impala, micarta and bone

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Jake Evans,War Chief of the Terrible Ironic HORDE, Wielder of the Mighty Blade SOUL STEALER
 
My favorite: Stag. I have ordered 6 customs
this week all with Stag. My second is Black
Lip pearl, followed by Mammoth Ivory, Ivory.

Happy New Year,
Win
 
Well as far as a working knife I like Micarta and G-10.The comment about being tired of black g-10,I just bought recently a custom Meerdink with attractively smooth finished green g-10 handles.G-10 comes in blue,red,green and I'm sure other colors.It was finished very nicely almost looked like Micarta.Thanks,RS

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Phil,
I love stag! Over the past year if I had two identical knives, one stag, one fancy stabilized wood.....The stag handled knife wouldn't even get handled! The last two orders of wood looked HOT!
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When I said stag was a thing of the past, I was talking about what's been in demand as far as MY knives.
Neil

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Stag by far is my fav, But I don't like the crown stag, I LOVE taper stag handles.

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-Greg Johnson
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At the moment, I want to say green/olive canvas micarta!
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It have a rough texture to it even after it has been polished/buffed - it is even grippier when it gets wet with water! Amazing stuff. The bad side it is is kinda UGLY, but I think it looks beautiful!
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It has a lizzzzzard like pattern to it.


From an aesthetics point of view, the stag, has always been a classic favorite of mine. Oh....I love the compressed leatehr handle fixed blades as well.
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Too much nice stuff out there.

G-10 is BORING, but 100% functional.
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Ray 'md2020'
 
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