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Favorite Color and Handle Material on a Stockmam

Now is your chance, vote for your favorite color and handle material. Is it traditional stag, maybe bone or a synthetic? What about color, red, green, brown, black or blue?

Tags: Stockman, color, handle

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Permalink Reply by Steve Hanner on January 26, 2011 at 15:11

I'll start, my favorite is stag, real stag too not the fake but often it is the most expensive. My second favorite would be a synthetic and favorite color is yellow.

In MemoriamPermalink Reply by D ale on January 26, 2011 at 18:53

STAG .. tis simply classic !!!

… for beauty & EDC durability .. ivory linen micarta

Permalink Reply by James Cole on January 27, 2011 at 7:51

HH, There's an old saying that you don't get to choose who you fall in love with and I think that applies to handle materials as well as people. I like almost all handle materials and colors (no pink sir), but when I'm walking the tables at a show and I see a red jigged bone it stops me in my tracks. By the way red is NOT my favorite color for things other than knife handles. Go figure.

Oh ya. How can you not like stag.

Permalink Reply by Rome D. Rushing on January 27, 2011 at 20:15

It looks like I fall right in line with the others, when I am looking at knives a beautiful piece of stag will always catch my eye. Of course if you look at my photo albums I guess I like all colors and materials just as long as it is attached to a knife.

In MemoriamPermalink Reply by D ale on January 27, 2011 at 21:39

I like your way of thinken !!!!!

Rome D. Rushing said:

... all colors and materials just as long as it is attached to a knife.

Permalink Reply by Lynn on February 4, 2011 at 19:16

Well I have two favorites old Red Bone and Stag

Permalink Reply by Jim Thompson on March 9, 2011 at 19:02

I have 3- Burnt Stag, Bone & Pearl. Colors - Pearl in all colors including abalone - Stag all variations-

Bone in old knives Red & Green, New knives some of the red & most of the browns

Permalink Reply by Steve Hanner on March 9, 2011 at 19:59

Jim, just curious, I've been looking at some of the pearl handle knives. what do you think? Does it really have that translucent quality?

Jim Thompson said:

I have 3- Burnt Stag, Bone & Pearl. Colors - Pearl in all colors including abalone - Stag all variations-

Bone in old knives Red & Green, New knives some of the red & most of the browns

Permalink Reply by Jim Thompson on March 9, 2011 at 21:32

Yes it does but like any other handle material it varies. All Pearl & abalone knives are very difficult to photograph and get the true beauty. There are 3 major pearls, the normal white pearl, gold lip pearl and what is refeered to as black lip pearl. I think the black is the best looking, the gold next and the white last but I would not cull any of them. You do not want to drop one either. Pearl can break or crack raher easy. I psted a pearl I got off eBay (received it today) and am asking members to guess at what I paid for it. Take a look, give it your best guess & in a few days I will post what I paid.

Hog Hanner said:

Jim, just curious, I've been looking at some of the pearl handle knives. what do you think? Does it really have that translucent quality?

Jim Thompson said:
I have 3- Burnt Stag, Bone & Pearl. Colors - Pearl in all colors including abalone - Stag all variations-

Bone in old knives Red & Green, New knives some of the red & most of the browns

Permalink Reply by Jim Thompson on March 10, 2011 at 6:08

Morning Hog...I woke up this morning and it hit me that I forgot a color in Pearl handles and that is Pink. I only have a couple of these and it is a color not frequently found in Pearl. Could it be the rarest??? I will leave that for someone else to answer. Frank Plant has a Pearl Whittler posted & it is the deepest pink I have seen.

Permalink Reply by Steve Hanner on March 10, 2011 at 15:20

Thank you Jim, you don't think of pink when you think pearl. I going to check Frank's Whittler and see the color.

Permalink Reply by Steve Hanner on March 10, 2011 at 20:29

I took a look at that pink whittler, you may have seen my comment, but what a beautiful color and then he said he had re-handled with material he purchased. Sure looks like he did a nice job. I did not ask what that cost! lol!