Thread: What is your favorite handle?

Originally Posted by Pinda

We are disgusted if we watch the newest DVD from Hoyt, where you americans shoot live animals just to shoot one buck once a year.
For example there is one who sits in a tree all day waiting for a buck to arrive. At the end of the day the buck slowly aproaches. He gets a shot, the bucks speeds off to run some 100 meters or so, but the "hunter" doesn't even take the time to track the animal. No, he and his mates have a nice BBQ and a good night's rest just to track the animal following the bloodtrail the next day....

Is that what you call bow-hunting? Aaargh, my stomach turns, just by telling the story.

Point 1) The hunter should be sure of his target, if not he should not shoot.

Point 2)Things happen. If you try to track the game immediately it will keep running, if you do not give immediate chase it will stop running in a few meters and lay down. Therefore the animal is not chased to death.

Originally Posted by hoglahoo

How about extinct? does it rank highly or not at all?

Well, given that extinct is just endangerment taken to its extreme end point, I'd have to say yes, extinct is great.

The problem with extinct, though, is that you miss all the exciting peaks and dips that come with endangered: White Rhino ivory scale prices vary wildly on the scale stock market depending on whether that month's captive breeding programme was successful or not, and the speculators move in to drive the price higher or lower accordingly.

And then of course there are the bad scale speculation loans. These display a lot of volatility. The worst case I can recall in recent history was the Amur Tiger femur scales debarkle. Back in the 1940s there were only about 40 individuals left alive on the planet, and femur scales were topping 20000USD a pair. Then the bloody tree-hugging hippies moved in and brought it back from the brink, the bottom fell out of the market, and many people's retirement funds went down the chute because of it. If someone had bothered to do a proper cost/benefit analysis they would have realised that keeping them on the brink of extinction indefinitely would have been the only logical course of economic action. But as we all know, people can be short-sighted sometimes.



James.

Hmm it's legal to hunt with bow and arrow in Denmark. And by all accounts I know we're counted as part of "Western Europe". But first you have to have a regular hunting permit and then a bow hunting permit on top of that. And I think that by law you must also always have a "fetching dog with you".

My cousins husband had a funny story about a guy who had taught a poodle to fetch poultry


Btw: I thought one of the Americans would have noted this by now, but if you have a big enough gun you just have to hit close to the animal in order to kill it

I agree with Pinda..... no new ivory!

I like wood, bone, and the new plastics like Traveller uses.

I, like a lot of guys, like wood, but I am not crazy about epoxy finished wood. It is better than plastic, but I prefer the oil finished natural woods. And, I do like weathered, old Ivory - with lots of grain and very yellowed. Ivory with character!

Steve

Mammoth ivory coffee or blue, sheephorn scales somewhat figured but translucent, Iron wood

My dream setup would be a razor with scales made from Illegal Elephant Ivory displayed in a bowl made of a Gorilla skull that sits next to a jar displaying an unborn human fetus.

Occasionally I'll see some custom wood scales that I like but most often even though I can appreciate the work that goes into fine wood scales, I'm not a fan of wood in general. Partly I think it's the greater thickness of wood scales that can seem to detract from the overall razor/scale aesthetic.

I'm as green as green can get on making my own scales, but I decided to start right off with horn. So far, I love it because it can be made as thin as the old bakelite scales and even more flexible. It files and sands like a dream. Now the challenge to get a workable presentable set!

I like bone scales and want to try camel bone next as it's supposed to be a close visual twin to antique ivory.

Finally, cast resin scales from molds made of vintage scales for traditional as close to original restos as possible are on my research list, but I don't know how flexible the cast epoxy resins are.

Chris L

Oh, and BTW, that's what's great about SRP. It's such a repository of great info and discussion that an old thread like this is perennial!

Originally Posted by thewap

Mammoth ivory coffee or blue, sheephorn scales somewhat figured but translucent, Iron wood

OK, I want to see some photos of these.