I love natural handle scales like wood, stag, jigged bone, stag, okay I admit I like stag alot. But for some strange reason or quirk of my nature, I also have a closet love of yellow handles, or what one old waterman I knew called "yeller handles".
It seemed like they were the big thing at one time in my youth. Especially on what we all called fishing knives. You know, the toothpick pattern with one knife blade, a scaler blade, and sometimes even a hook sharpener embeded in the yellow plastic handle. For some reason all the fishing knives I recall from my childhood were yellow. Most seemed to be made by Camillus, Colonial, Imperial, Schrade.
Even though I go into a zombie like stare when nice stag is waved in front of my face, by contrast I find yellow handles sort of comforting in a strage way. Of my peanuts, I love my bone stag, and my amber bone, but when I first open the cigar box I am always tempepted and often sucumb to carrying my yellow handle peanut.
Sodbusters. I make no bones about the soddie being a long time favorite. I've had an Eye-Brand soddie with nice dark wood handles, an old Friederich Herder soddie with what looked like either walnut or some tropical hardwood. But my favorite soddie was the yellow handle case and Eye-Brand.
Anybody else have better looking knives, but love the yellow handle whatever?
Or is it a 50's thing?
It seemed like they were the big thing at one time in my youth. Especially on what we all called fishing knives. You know, the toothpick pattern with one knife blade, a scaler blade, and sometimes even a hook sharpener embeded in the yellow plastic handle. For some reason all the fishing knives I recall from my childhood were yellow. Most seemed to be made by Camillus, Colonial, Imperial, Schrade.
Even though I go into a zombie like stare when nice stag is waved in front of my face, by contrast I find yellow handles sort of comforting in a strage way. Of my peanuts, I love my bone stag, and my amber bone, but when I first open the cigar box I am always tempepted and often sucumb to carrying my yellow handle peanut.
Sodbusters. I make no bones about the soddie being a long time favorite. I've had an Eye-Brand soddie with nice dark wood handles, an old Friederich Herder soddie with what looked like either walnut or some tropical hardwood. But my favorite soddie was the yellow handle case and Eye-Brand.
Anybody else have better looking knives, but love the yellow handle whatever?
Or is it a 50's thing?
