Fancy Scales Thread. A CPK picture show

gusbuster said:
:thumbsup: Great thread Renato. Love the DIW EDC2’s, and Martin’s D2 Skinner is fantastic! Here’s a few I’ve posted before.

:)My grail, Nathan’s personal double edged UF in 3V and Cocobolo
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UF in ElMax with Desert Ironwood
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EDC2 in Dessert Ironwood and EDC in African Blackwood
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Had to get a close up :thumbsup::D
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Gus I was hoping bits from your collection would make it in here, some of my absolute favorites. Great photos of some tremendous specimens. As always thanks for sharing.
 
JJ_Colt45 said:
Two occasions to post this today ... not made by Nathan so it won't remind him it's a pain to do the wood ... an EDC2 with beautiful Koa scales ... made by TrfromMt and leather sheath made by Grogimus ...

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Two very talented people and great contributors to the forum. Never tire of seeing that Koa. Isn't there a field knife floating around with similar handles?
 
JJ_Colt45 said:
Man that makes me want Koa on my HDFK!!! ... But for my uses of it I would probably be better off staying with the grippy Micarta ... but it's hard to not give in when you see how beautiful the Koa is everytime.
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Thanks. Yes, the pretty wood scales are nice, but on a larger blade for hard use it is very hard to beat the more modern materials. They make sense on a smaller blade, but they are sure fun to look at even on a larger blade. I've made them for my own larger fixers, and I still take them off when I have real work to be done...
 
woodysone said:
Gus those are truly grails, how did you manage to get your hands on those?
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Thanks Martin, sorry I wasn’t able to respond earlier, I’m at work. I lucked out when I snagged Nathan’s personal UF on the exchange awhile back. I got the ElMax UF from Justin Fournier, and the Ironwood scales from Jo. I got the African Blackwood EDC from Jarrett (Panthera tigris). Nathan and Jo where really nice letting me get the DIW EDC after a mix up we had during a recent Fun Friday sale when Eric (Choppaman) was proxying for me.
 

:thumbsup: Hey it's all good Adam, they're super grippy when you leave them rough. I was going to leave mine that way for the outstanding non slip grip, but I couldn’t resist polishing them off. I use to hang out in the Fiddleback forum alot. :D
 
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