With me you often get more than you asked for.
(all these case knives I am talking about are pretty much ALL Case Large Trappers)
I will start out saying I prefer the genuine horn handles just because they are fatter. In the Case of the Genuine Stag scales they are A LOT fatter and that is a good thing while using the knife. I go back and forth with the Stag looks wise. One minute it creeps me out and another minute I love what Case does with it to produce so many colors and textures on one knife handle.
Here's the Stag with a few other slip joints
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The Black Water buffalo is pretty great to.
In the past and again just lately I am sort of embarrassed to say I have a real fascination with the White Sparxx. It is just plain old white imitation (molded) jigging texture. They are pretty thin scales (not fat). But I don't know, what can I say, there it is . . . I love the look of them.
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The Antiqued Peachseed Jigged Bone scales are very classic and have a bunch of texture to them that I crave in a knife handle so recently I have been enjoying that handle quite a lot.
The Dark Navy Blue Bone Roger's Jigged scales shown above are right up there for me. I don't think "Dark" is part of the actual color description but the scales only do it for me if they are almost black with a little blue around the edges. There for a while Case was leaving the blue scales with some sky blue and even white with the dark blue and black and for me it was . . . nah dude, nah. The last example I bought a month or so ago (not shown) was very pleasing. I am totally happy with it.
The Tony Bose / Case knives with Gabon Ebony are just so great looking ! ! !
I don't have one but I sure like to look at them.
Around Christmas I like to busssout my Dark Red Jigged Bone Trapper (shown above). All that red is a bit much the rest of the year but at Christmas I give myself permission to enjoy carrying that one. It is really beautiful. CV patinad blade natch'
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Finally I have to say I had quite a love affair with Chestnut but I swear the handle seemed to really fade and even show some white bone here and there that I swear was not there when I bought the knife. It has not seen any significant sun at all. I work indoors and carry the knife in a pouch always (not loose in a car or some such). Now I am just meh about the Chestnut because the dye seems to be too fugitive.
Scales when new :
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Scales not even a year later.
These photos don't do it justice . . . how pretty it was in the past and how faded it is now.
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