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Wood Handles???
Wondering about knives with Wood Handles. Most TL-29's have them, some old Cattaraugus and a few of the Remington Year Knives have them. What other knives have Wood Handles??
What kinds of Wood is used? It seems they last well - compared to Bone or other????
It is said the 1989 Trapper Remington Year Knife is a close repro of the original because it has Cocobola Wood handles and not Delrin.
Here is what it looks like:
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FeaturedPermalink Reply by Craig Henry on -
Good point. Ebony has a very tight grain.
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Permalink Reply by Ken Spielvogel on
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Here are two more examples: a Cattaraugus
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No, not that one - I can't seem to delete it - its this one:
Notice how black the color of that wood is.
As compared to this Camillus Navy Rope Knife
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In MemoriamPermalink Reply by Robert Burris on -
Some wooden handles. start out brown and end up almost black. The more you use them, the darker they get. I wonder what is the difference in price, from one wood to another?
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FeaturedPermalink Reply by Craig Henry on -
I'm not up on values nowadays, especially since I don't collect for collector value, but wood handles always used to be pretty much lumped together as far as value, a long time ago. But there can be a fair bit of difference in price on new knives depending on what wood is used.
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FeaturedPermalink Reply by Craig Henry on -
Ken, I just came across on the Case website that the wood handles on their "utility" knives such as the electrician's knife, pruner etc was usually Walnut.
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Interesting Craig, I wonder if most of the TL-29's are Walnut. I've never seen a wood handled Case but I guess they are out there. The ones I have seen are bone or Delrin in Electricians knives. So, we can add Walnut to the other woods. Thanks Craig. I wish there were some way to tell the difference.
I was thinking of lightly sanding one down and staining it, but that would take away from the true knife.
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In MemoriamPermalink Reply by Robert Burris on -
Hey, that Walnut is nice stuff.
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Yes, I had a farm that was loaded with Walnut trees. People around here go around and pick the Walnuts and take them someplace and get paid for them. We have 2 in our yard now, hate it when I hit one with the lawn mower.
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Here are a couple of TL-29's: KaBar and Camillus
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In MemoriamPermalink Reply by Robert Burris on -
I used one, like those in my trade years ago.
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Robert, were you an Electrician? Do you still have the TL-29 you used? How about a pic?
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