Attention 2019 Forum Knife : Poll - Smooth Wood

[waverave]

Cool! I'll get started on the mock-ups and post this evening to help with the voting.

 

[Pàdruig]

Personally, I would be happy with any of those choices. It is a shame that we are somewhat limited, yet at the same time we do have a good amount of selection. Too many choices can often have unintended side effects.

Based on my personal experience as well as the experiences shared by others, Ebony has a greater propensity towards brown. Of all of the Ebony I have, over half are brown and streaky. I have grown to like it but I still maintain a preference towards the blackest of black. For now, my vote is firmly in the African Blackwood camp but I will continue to be curious how the discussion unfolds.

(ETA: The examples below are of some of my more "brown" Ebony)

 

[Prester John]

Personally, I would be happy with any of those choices. It is a shame that we are somewhat limited, yet at the same time we do have a good amount of selection. Too many choices can often have unintended side effects.

Based on my personal experience as well as the experiences shared by others, Ebony has a greater propensity towards brown. Of all of the Ebony I have, over half are brown and streaky. I have grown to like it but I still maintain a preference towards the blackest of black. For now, my vote is firmly in the African Blackwood camp but I will continue to be curious how the discussion unfolds.

My initial vote is for cocobolo, but I will certainly consider African Blackwood. We have a few days....

 

[Augie]

Can't find the tube, anyone know what the 78 was, I love how black this one is. Have not voted yet but leaning towards the Blackwood.

 

[Buzzbait]

I stuck with my ebony vision for this knife, sort of...... I voted for Blackwood, as I want it to be as black as possible. But I could as easily have gone for cocobolo, ironwood or bloodwood. They’re all wonderful

 

[Pàdruig]

Can't find the tube, anyone know what the 78 was, I love how black this one is. Have not voted yet but leaning towards the Blackwood.


View attachment 1087607

I have the single blade version of that one and it is indeed Ebony. Some rather exquisite ebony, I would say.

 

[Amir Fleschwund]

There's a political subforum you can go to. This thread is for voting on the ten options available to us, not to advance a political agenda.

To be fair, being careful of legislative realities is not the same as railing against them.
The music industry is in turmoil over this because of the prevalence of Brazilian RW in instruments. Manufacturers are scrambling to find non- threatened species of wood. (And that’s a good thing)
Performers in all genres of music are not able to travel abroad with their vintage instruments.
We don’t want that to happen with our knives.

And hey! Osage Orange is a sustainable species!

 

[H2O2HI]

We all want Bloodwood

Lets choose a wood color to get what we like
Handsome attractive that goes with this knife
Bright color, not black or lacking all life
We need Bloodwood to show to our wife

Then she’ll approve our superior choice
N break loose with the cash
And join with great voice
For incredibly beautiful Bloodwood knife
We’ll all remain happy, pleasure is rife
Huzzah, Huzzah, Huzzah

 

[meako]

L-R from top
Osage ,Bloodwood, Bocote, 4xRosewoods,
Coocbolo,2x Ebony.

 

[Rookie82]

The AB or Ebony are most appealing to me. I will vote for whichever of those 2 is in the lead. My only other slight interest would be in Ironwood. The other woods options don't have the pizazz based on what I've seen so far.

Here is my only Ironwood example.

 

[Ajd3530]

Shame about the snake wood.

 

[Henry Beige]

Was strongly leaning toward AB, until I saw the bloodwood. I would be happy enough with blackwood, but thinkmthe bloodwood would be really distinctive.

 

[tmd_87]

Red or brown=wood with grain and depth and have their own character and are different.

Black woods=boring and all similar, little to no character.

Vote for having your very own special wood grain that nobody has!

 

[H2O2HI]

There's a political subforum you can go to. This thread is for voting on the ten options available to us, not to advance a political agenda.

This is an election. That is the definition of politics. One should not politic to shut down the voicing of another opinion. I read the posting rules and there is no prohibition of stating facts.
The origin of materials for manufacture I would think, are of interest to all knife owners.

 

[tmd_87]

Changed my vote to bloodwood

If I were voting for ironwood or one of the lighter woods I would swing my vote towards bloodwood as well.

 

[JohnDF]

I like both the ebony and the blackwood. I voted for blackwood as it seems to have the best chance to win. If any of you want a black knife, this may be the wisest move. Early polling indicates a tight race between blackwood and bloodwood.

 

[Jathes]

Voting Jobillo. Will be happy with any of the choices.

 

[r8shell]

I get the feeling half the voters think ebony/blackwood is boring, and the other half will be disappointed if it doesn't come out "none more black"

Bloodwood if you use it. I still like itView attachment 1087579

Is bloodwood one that darkens over time? (osage does, too) That's good to know, if folks are voting for it because of the red color.

I'm having a tougher time with this choice than I thought I would.

 

[Babalu32]

In for Kingwood. All good woods!

 

[HST]

Thanks, Mike.

Hello, forum.

I really really like the decided attributes of this knife.