What Tiger King is Missing

[Apocryphiliac]

Tigerhide, of course.

 

[OnceBitten]

I see me a coupla Regulators in there....

 

[Jerry Busse]

Yowza! Great pics!!!!

Let's Drink!

Jerry

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[Apocryphiliac]

I see me a coupla Regulators in there....

Yes you do! Good eye.

Yowza! Great pics!!!!

Let's Drink!

Jerry

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Da BOSS!!! Cheers, Bossman!

 

[tinfoil hat timmy]

SAR handle tiferhide is for sure my favorite.

I wish I could find a good SAR4 LE user.

 

[JV Knives]

Great looking stuff!

I might add that the "tiger king" is missing many other things...such as dental coverage for his husband.

 

[tinfoil hat timmy]

Also.

D I B S.

 

[Apocryphiliac]

Also.

D I B S.

But seriously, I don't know how stuff in Tigerhide changes hands. It's literally my favorite handle material when it is hand-smoothed. Lucky me, and thanks to anyone who contributed to my meager 4 in this material. I'd buy everything in it even if it added $100 or more to the total. I'd take SR-101 with hand-smoothed Tigerhide over INFI with another material. That's not even just due to the way it looks; it also seems to absorb moisture differently than other micarta handles. Not just my imagination, right?

 

[tinfoil hat timmy]

No. You're correct. It's a different beast entirely.

 

[Tony G]

Tiger-hide is right up there with Green Linen and Black Paper and maybe one or two more if I were to rub my last two brain cells together.

 

[Hard Knocks]

But seriously, I don't know how stuff in Tigerhide changes hands. It's literally my favorite handle material when it is hand-smoothed. Lucky me, and thanks to anyone who contributed to my meager 4 in this material. I'd buy everything in it even if it added $100 or more to the total. I'd take SR-101 with hand-smoothed Tigerhide over INFI with another material. That's not even just due to the way it looks; it also seems to absorb moisture differently than other micarta handles. Not just my imagination, right?

Really interesting that it's not just a cosmetic difference, I did not know that. I hope I get to try some someday, they're beautiful Tim. Thanks for sharing them with us.

 

[Apocryphiliac]

Really interesting that it's not just a cosmetic difference, I did not know that. I hope I get to try some someday, they're beautiful Tim. Thanks for sharing them with us.

I don’t know what the actual difference is between hand smoothed Tigerhide and, say, black canvas micarta is except that Tigerhide seems to have a finer weave, but not necessarily just the way that linen micarta does. It’s very hard to explain. It seems to almost conform to your hand but I suspect that has to do with the extreme smoothness of it and the way that it absorbs moisture.