Thread: What is your favorite handle?

The darn issues is I am afraid to use my non-plastic scaled razors. At least the vintage ones. I know I shouldn't. I just am.
I would have to say I do love translucent scales. Like vintage tortuous shell and Travellers scales.

Hi,
For me it's natural materials with a more organic feel, so bone, wood etc. I'm waiting very patiently for a custom with mammoth ivory!
I feel we have a responsibility & am opposed to using anything endangered. Ivory is very beautiful, but i like elephants too!
Feels a bit strange to see such a respected name in the straight razor world with a junior status!
Welcome Darrel.

I have only tried ebony, platic and celluloid (at least i think it is)

I prefer the ebony and wooden scales, dont like plastic and artificial materials in general and on scales i find that they are a little soft..i like the stiffness of the wood more.

Wood with an interesting grain pattern.

1) Ivory
2) Buffalo horn
3) Ebony
4) Stag
5) Cow horn

Originally Posted by Otto

1) Ivory
2) Buffalo horn
3) Ebony
4) Stag
5) Cow horn

What he sad.

1 Ivory (any type)
2 tortoise shell
3 ebony

I have found a shop that sells reclaimed Ivory and tortoise shell. The pieces aren't big enough to make a one-piece scales out of, but you use the peices as an inlay!
Now, where is that old piano?
M

Carbon fiber scales are attractive and a very practical material. My personal preference is for wood.

Handles hmmm?? On another venue I'm know as Smokin. For scales, I'm partial to horn and have a strange weakness for the DOVO fake turtle.

There are some people who hunt with big guns because they think it will allow them to get close, but a miss is a miss. Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades, and neither are legal hunting tools. The people who use the biggest guns often know the least about what they are doing and are trying to compensate for their lack of knowledge. Big guns also destroy more meat.

Bowhunting is the toughest legal hunting technique I know. Regulations on that in the US vary by state. Using dogs is not common, and I don't know any bowhunter that would do it. Dogs aren't stealthy enough. Bow is usually only used for deer, which are so numerous they are considered a pest in many areas.

Letting a deer go for a while after it has been seriously wounded actually saves you some time. If it feels safe, the deer will lay down and die. If you keep getting close to it, the adrenaline will allow it to get up and run again. The time that you wait depends on the seriousness of the wound and the temperature outside.

I firmly believe that being able to respectfully kill and process an animal for food is something that every meat-eating man should be able to do. Buying meat in a store is like using a Mach 3- convenient, quick, easy for the average joe. Hunting/killing for food is very much like using a straight. A lot of equipment prep time, practicing of the skills, and it is something that nearly all of our grandfathers could or did do.

I do it because I enjoy the prep time, and the practice time, and the time actually spent in the woods. I don't like the killing or the processing, but I do it because I feel I should. It is too easy to distance ourselves from what we eat, wrapped up in the package at the store.

I'm off-topic now, and I don't think I've even made my point properly...
J.