Thread: What are your favorite scale materials in the shop?

My favorite is blonde horn...
I love when there are dark parts in it. It gives a fantastic colour comvination in my opinion.

Black horn is also nice...but often oit Looks like plastic.

Tropical hardwoods are also great materials but I made only a few of them so far.

For knives, my favorites are bone, horn, antler and stabilized wood, and mycarta in some instances. So far, I've only made a couple of razors, but am sticking with mycarta for it's moister resistance. Maybe I just need a new way of shaving as I normally wash the whole razor in hot water under the tap and and wipe/blow dry and oil. I'd probably stay away from natural woods like Cocobolo and Ironwood as the oil I use on the blade would likely darken the wood faster. What bothers me is with a SR it's in a wet environment and while I'm using a carbon steel blade, I like the fact that the handle won't absorb moister or blade oil. I might do another in bone, but if I do it'll likely be stabilized, wouldn't mind using stabilized wood either.