Natural and stabilized Elk, Deer, and Moose antler usually comes from Montana
(sometimes from our own Sanders County area).
We occasionally use domestic steer and sheep horn, and European Water Buffalo horn.

    Natural and stabilized hardwoods are usually native woods such as Oak, Walnut, Cherry,
Desert Ironwood, Manzanita, Olive, Sycamore, and Hickory; and we occasionally use exotic hard woods
such as Amboynya, Cocobola, Honduras Rosewood, Australian Corkwood,  and Thulya Burl.

    Dymond wood is colored and laminated hardwood that has been impregnated with resin, and processed
under extreme pressure and high temperatures.  This process makes the knife handles
impervious to damage from moisture, oils, drying, and cracking. (Gun stocks are also made of Dymond wood.)

    Micarta is made of many layers of a man-made fiber (canvas and linen are the most common)
that has been impregnated with resin, and processed under extreme pressure and high temperatures,
making these knife handles also impervious to damage from moisture, oils, drying, and cracking.

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