What is your favorite piece in your personal stash of handle material?

I will toss one more out there hoping some body will join in on the fun natural golden masur birch burl.golden masur birch burl.jpg
 
This is my second post here. Earlier I posted a piece of striped B&W Ebony which is the cream of my "exotic" wood stash. However, I have a huge stash of domestic woods and here are the gems of that lot:

Air dried, figured Pennsylvania Walnut:






Red Maple "Onion Burl":






-Peter
 
quint said:
That is some really nice stuff Steve. Would look amazing as some inlay work. Wish I had been into knife making a while back when I was over seas. I remember seeing that stuff in several spots in the med and in the UAE. Just at the time I wasnt looking to do knife work.

Here is what is left of a piece of madrone burl I processed a while back, should probably have hung onto more of it but oh well. Sold off some, traded most of the rest for various things. Ive got this set of scales (they are book matched this is just the outside since it is all thats cleaned up), and two little blocks left.

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My Goodness, just a big WOW!
 
I'm not really a natural handle type of knife guy, but I have this piece of wenge wood that I really like. The grain and color contrast is awesome. I can only imagine what the finished project would look like.
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P. McKinley said:
This is my second post here. Earlier I posted a piece of striped B&W Ebony which is the cream of my "exotic" wood stash. However, I have a huge stash of domestic woods and here are the gems of that lot:


Red Maple "Onion Burl":


I am always a fan of domestic wood especially wood that you personally harvest, love the onion burl.
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I will mix it up a bit. Here is my favorite stashed walrus ivory. it is on the small side but has amazing blues and blacks all the way threw. I am thinking it would be perfect for a personal neck knife.lil beautiful walrus ivory.jpg
 
David Stifle said:
I'll join ya. I always thought golden masur birch burl quite beautiful, although I haven't yet used it.
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The problem with masur birch burl is once you have it it is hard to use it. It is just beautiful stuff. I can't get enough of it, yet I have at least a half dozen of them displayed on my bench just havn't found knives good enough for them yet lol.
 
rmbonham said:
The problem with masur birch burl is once you have it it is hard to use it. It is just beautiful stuff. I can't get enough of it, yet I have at least a half dozen of them displayed on my bench just havn't found knives good enough for them yet lol.
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I always thought it looked nice on scandinavian style knives.
 
Here is another piece of stashed ironwood burl however i finally talked myself into using this one on my next project.
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David Stifle said:
I'll join ya. I always thought golden masur birch burl quite beautiful, although I haven't yet used it.
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I always thought this one was nice.....

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That is some amazing birch! You made me drool a little! Mr. Farley throw some pics up here. Just because you have pics in your web store doesn't mean we don't want to see them here as well.
 
rmbonham - I also like the native stuff and try to incorporate it into my work whenever possible. Here's a few pieces of firewood salvaged from my neighbor's split firewood business. I have a lot of this stuff!!

Two, beautifully figured versions of Red Maple, Bird's eye, and kind of a fiddleback/quilted cross. Enough for at least 4-5 knives each:




Two big, thick, solid blocks of heavily spalted Red Maple crotch-wood that will be sent off to be stabilized and dyed. The figure and color variegation are similarly wild on both sides.


And, here's a few more from my exotic stash:
Figured Purpleheart


A big chunk of figured Ipe


two or three handles worth of Bocote'


Bocote' end grain(from same board as above)


Great thread! I love looking at this really fine stuff.

-Peter
 
I have watched this thread and decided that I should look at my "Stash". I have a cabinet where I put special wood and projects, plus a couple bins and cases that hold my personal "stash" of wood and ivory. Seems every show I end up pulling a few pieces I think are too good to sell cheap. Then Mark sends me an email with a photo of something extraordinary, and I buy more wood ( like I really need more!). I am starting to worry that I will end up sitting in my underwear on the floor stroking some wood/ivory and saying, "My Precious, My Precious."

Ok, I took some photos of part of my personal wood stash. This is all AAAAA grade exhibition wood. Plus, I laid out my personal use ivory stash, and a few bins of mammoth handle scales. I have about six big tote bins filled with other great handle wood, plus maybe 50 pounds of common mammoth and elephant ivory pieces, but this is my "Personal Stash".

First group are shots of some of the ivory I love most ( for scale, that is a 6'X2' treadmill)
Those muskox scales are about the size of a dinner plate when put together.
The inlay scales are some I got from a forumite as cut out inlay pieces. I did the inlay and have special projects for them.
The walrus in the middle is all fossil material.:
 

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