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With or without looking spine-wise across my array of Fiddlebacks...
... I intuitively answer the question of my favorite combination of colors and appointments:
Oh, me heart. I love the twizzled presentation of cross-cut natural micarta, the POP of the white, and of course: BLUE.
[I can get lost looking at the above three knives, and pictures thereof, endlessly. I am especially tickled by how well the blue 'matches' across three different materials -- maple, boxwood, and (earlier) Shadetree navy burlap, respectively.]
The Natural + White combination works well for me even without the presence of... blue! (gasp!)
I also really enjoy [thicker] Natural as a standalone liner; short Natural bolsters are always a bonus:
And finally, I've discovered that I just plain like white (like just plain white?
) with black liners too, more than the other more colorful possibilities out there. To my eyes, white with black has a classy effect that brings out the best of each pattern's lines, the bullseye, the overall aesthetic that gets me all jiggy about Fiddlebacks:
In my own selection, this leaves the Outliers on the far left:
From pictures alone, I feared the 'Racing Stripes' on the Mango Runt would look too fussy, but they really work in person-- a stellar little standout, this.
The Lime with the Natural on the 'falcen...?
Well.
The 'falcon is a most favorite knife, and I carry and use it in all its Blurple glory, but I can't help but wonder how it would look with: white pinstriping.
[Mebbe it would look even more blURPLE with white?! ]
But, that's just me!
What about you? Do you have a liner, pinstriping and/or handle combination you keen to across patterns, or even in a beloved sample of one?
~ P.
[A quick search here to make sure I wasn't duplicating an already-existing thread indicates that Orange can be ... polarizing.]
... I intuitively answer the question of my favorite combination of colors and appointments:
Oh, me heart. I love the twizzled presentation of cross-cut natural micarta, the POP of the white, and of course: BLUE.
[I can get lost looking at the above three knives, and pictures thereof, endlessly. I am especially tickled by how well the blue 'matches' across three different materials -- maple, boxwood, and (earlier) Shadetree navy burlap, respectively.]
The Natural + White combination works well for me even without the presence of... blue! (gasp!)
I also really enjoy [thicker] Natural as a standalone liner; short Natural bolsters are always a bonus:
And finally, I've discovered that I just plain like white (like just plain white?
) with black liners too, more than the other more colorful possibilities out there. To my eyes, white with black has a classy effect that brings out the best of each pattern's lines, the bullseye, the overall aesthetic that gets me all jiggy about Fiddlebacks:
In my own selection, this leaves the Outliers on the far left:
From pictures alone, I feared the 'Racing Stripes' on the Mango Runt would look too fussy, but they really work in person-- a stellar little standout, this.
The Lime with the Natural on the 'falcen...?
Well.
The 'falcon is a most favorite knife, and I carry and use it in all its Blurple glory, but I can't help but wonder how it would look with: white pinstriping.
[Mebbe it would look even more blURPLE with white?!
]But, that's just me!
What about you? Do you have a liner, pinstriping and/or handle combination you keen to across patterns, or even in a beloved sample of one?
~ P.
[A quick search here to make sure I wasn't duplicating an already-existing thread indicates that Orange can be ... polarizing.
]
