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May be a generation gap thing. I think that the laminates spell "high class" in my mind. They'll take a beating and keep on looking good, whereas the standard walnut on a rem 870 will start to warp and swell with the slightest bit of moisture. And nicer woods on good double-barreled shot guns also damage easily. Plus, the laminate stocks are currently selling for slightly higher than standard wood(on marlin and ruger rimfires, at least). Good laminates don't realy have a "cheap" feeling to me- but I can understand why somebody would enjoy their single peice of expertly carved ancient forest wood on the back of their expertly crafted gun.
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It's a puzzlement. I don't see why people would think nothing of putting a piece of two color micarta on a knife handle and look with horror on two color diamond wood. It seems to me that there are those people who want their "natural" material to appear natural even if it is saturated with resin.
Doug Lester __________________ If you're not making mistakes then you're not trying hard enough |
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That could be just a matter of 2 different kinds of buyers.
I wonder what the custom knife market would be like if Pakistani makers had used micarta rather than Pakkawood? |
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A friend of mine had me make him a knife a few years ago with the cocobolo dymondwood on it. It looked good and has held up fine.
I have actually used it on a few knives over the past few years and have a couple knives of my own with dymondwood on them. Ive put it on knives that I'm going to field test that I dont want to use up expensive handle material and It holds up very well. I like the solid colors though, not the rainbow colored stuff. The black indigo I think they call it looks pretty good and the cocobolo looked good. Its not made from real cocobolo, just the color of it is pretty close to it. I actually cleaned up one of the first knives I ever made the other day and its a greenish blue dymondwood. That knife has seen some hard use and a fair amount of neglect and its in good shape. |
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