Why not wood?

[Peter Parker]

Cocobolo Rosewood wow! That is the prettiest wood handle knife I've seen yet!

 

[Dornblaser]

Cocobolo is a rosewood.

 

[snowreaper1]

I prefer the look of a good looking wood with an interesting grain pattern over pretty much any other inlay.
I once had a California buckeye limited sebbie and it was really the most beautiful inlays I've seen. It had
bits if red, brown, green and purple.
I would like to see more wood slippies coming out of companys like case since all you mostly see is some sort
if jigged bone which I don't really have a preference for.

 

[Seals]

Buck used genuine Maccassar Ebony on the 110/112 for years before they switched to the present day laminate.It was a lot more of a process and cost using the real stuff.Ive heard they also got tired of the giant cockroackes and other pesky critters that hitched rides from s.America.( : Custom makers can hand pick and use about anything with properly done stabilization.I use lots of maple,sycamore,hickory,Mesquite,ect..Ironwood is a good one for density and hardness.It needs no stabilization.

 

[cnas122]

Only woods I'm ok with on a knife are ebony and ironwood (just my preference of course). I have a lot more fixed blades with wood than I do folders...

This is my favorite right now...

 

[jacknife]

I've a couple of knives with wood scales. I like them.
I've an old Boker Trapper with walnut scales and when I bought it you could feel the scales flex a little against the liners.
I think they'd dried out a bit. I soaked a little oil in to them and the scales just sat down like they should. Looked pretty too.

 

[biglmbass]

Not to derail the thread, but does anyone have and like teak as a handle material? I know Case has used teak, but can't say I've ever seen it by other makers.

 

[johnny1950]

I like wood sometimes. My Boker cronidur (which I bought partly due to all the humidity down here in the Jersey swamp) has a type of wood related to African blackwood which holds up great around moisture. The wood I really appreciate, but don't have, is the snakewood on a dress knife, like a half congress maybe. They're mighty pretty.

 

[thejamppa]

as Finn, woodhandles as most natural for me. Almost any puukko's here is made from birch or curly birch. Curly birch IMHO is one the ideal materials for knife handle. I also like desert iron wood, ebony and I want sometimes to add maple handles on my collection. I've used curly birch for two decades now on knives and I've never had problems with it moisture, impact, freezing or otherwise. Stained or or regular curly birch, it holds so well the elements and use that I am still impressed. Wood is not by anymean weak or inferior. I like the warm feeling of the wood. And the beautiful grain structures. And one more for curly birch: I got this beautiful stained handle curly birch handle that I've never protected more than with greasy hands. After 15+ years handle is still great, even I have soaked it thru most rivers, lakes and bays around here.

 

[KFU]

I think Teak would be a good handle material that you don't see often. I have a supplier that has some Teak Burl that is just awesome. I might get some and try it out.

 

[yobbos1]

Nothing prettier than a fixed blade in birch or an Opinel in Olive.

 

[Bob W]

I haven't noticed any shortage of current production knives with wood handles.

Case definitely prefers to use bone, but even so I see at least six different wood types offered at Shepherd Hills. Boker has some excellent knife series in wood, such as the new beer barrel wood and Grenadil. Canal Street Cutlery has an entire line of chestnut handles. AG Russell is using cocobolo on his new line of traditionals. And Great Eastern is doing beautiful work with snakewood, ebony, and others.

:thumbup:

 

[pvicenzi]

I like wood, but this is the only traditional I have in wood.

 

[mike Berkovitch]

Wood is fascinating material, I especially like the Desert Iron Wood and the Snakewood
Here is one of each

and another one

Mike