What is your favorite handle material?

Pete1977

Pete1977

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What is your favorite handle material on your slipjoint folders? Is it traditional, or modern, simple or high tech?

My tie for favorite is yellow delrin, simple and pretty, and mother of pearl, which I find absolutely beautiful.

A close second to those is black lip pearl and abalone shell.

I've never been a horn/stag/bone/wood fellow.

what's your preference?

Peter
 
Well my first choice would be stag followed by bone for non heavy use.
Case's yellow synthetic for a working knife..........
I would like to see Case put out a line of G10 handled CV steel knives........but that will probably never happen. :rolleyes:
Thats the one thing I never liked on the Old Timers is that ugly two tone brown Delrin they used. :eek: ...I would like to see more Green or Red Delrin on slipjoints.
Now wouldn't that Old Timer have looked much better with a different choice of colours? :cool:
I know a few people who would never buy the OT knives because of the colour and went to the UH knives despite liking the Carbon blades over the S/S.
Modern style knives I prefer G-10 or Titanium but I am not so fussy about them as I am the SlipJoints.


Kap :D
 
Also you just gotta love all the variations of Celluloid available.....
I'm not too sure of the durability though, I own a few Case in the Candy Stripe but haven't gotten around to using them yet.

Kap
 
Well done bone is probably my favorite, but the dye job has to be good. I've got a redbone Boker jack that is perfectly done, deep, even red on both scales. Almost looks jem-like when held in the right light. Also got a Case Classic with brown bone that is the same color as a Hershey's chocolate bar, also has alot of depth, kinda just pulls your eyes right in. After that its stag and then derlin, OT brown to be exact.
 
First and foremost is old Rogers bone.

Second is old Green bone.

Third is Second Cut Stag.

Fourth is Red Stag.

Then various tightly jigged bone of many colors and varieties.

I do own some nice knives with pearl and abalone scales but they are safe queens, where as all of the above are working man's user knives that I have counted on and trusted for years. I just love em! :cool:
 
In no particular order:

Fancy vintage celluloid
Any natural wood
pearl / black pearl
abalone
stag
cattle horn

:)
-Bob
 
Sunnyd must have mind reading powers as that is the same response I would have had. Old bone just gets my blood going. No one today can match the 1900's bone handles in my opinion. Look at an old Cat or CASE and let the heart start pumping.
 
pa knives said:
... No one today can match the 1900's bone handles in my opinion. Look at an old Cat or CASE and let the heart start pumping.
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You have got that right. I got my first pocket knife when I was a young lad of 6 or 7 up in the Pocono Mountains, PA. That would have been 1966-67. Spent summers there each year continuosly for many years with my family.

It was a old Red bone Case three blade stockman hand-me-down from my uncle. It was a fine knife. I learned to wittle with that knife and carried it for many years... Give me good old classic slipjoints with pretty bone or stag scales any day... Must be a PA thang!. :D
 
Old school Greenbone. Vintage Greenbone. Antique Greenbone, Remington Greenbone. See where I'm going with this? I LIKE GREENBONE and I cannot LIE.
 
I'm gonna go with the ivories.....
First is mammoth (especially with blues and greens), I think. Then elephant, 'cause it's so smoooooth and sleek.
I like bone (jigged, then smooth), stag, and the pearls as well..... Oh, I also like micarta, wood, delrin, G-10, even plastics and other composites...... :eek:

I guess I just like knives....... :D

Good thread.

Bill
 
I'll probably be beat like a leper for this but my favorite handle material for a slipjoint is Micarta (or G-10).

Reason being is that I carry all of my slips and I've been disappointed to see cracks in the scales from use or just bumping into something. I have 4 or 5 custom pieces now that I've ordered with Micarta and G-10 and they have held up very well.

Other man made materials are nice too but they have various flaws that are not exhibited by my first choice, such as shrinking, discoloring and cracking.

My second choice by far is jig bone followed by stag.
 
I like jigged bone to look at . For a user delrin in ok with me . Yellow delrin is classic in my book . I am one of those fellows who like Schrade's brown delrin as well .
 
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