Kenstix...... just my Hillbilly logic at work here, but your first post indicated that you came here to share your knowledge and experience on the subtleties of micarta.

Having watched the exchange in this thread you seem more interested in challenging the "experts".

I am guessing this thread didn't pan out as you first envisioned. I doubt the dialogue will encourage anyone here to buy your products. Doug and Tony are held in very high regard here..... they are long time forum members, and both have earned our support and respect.

So, back to your first post..... can you share and add to the collective knowledge?

Thanks for stepping in, Mitchell.

Seems like it was getting a little heated in the conversation back and forth.

It is gettin' a might touchy in between posts.

Here are a couple of photos of some of the brown micarta as used by Randall. You can also find some in the photo archives and an article or two in the Randall Collector archives here:

www.rmkcollector.com

Crutchtip, Thanks for posting th e piece of micarta that I bought from Ken is quite similar to the number 1 posted here, I used it to build a 14. Regards

Hi Folks ~ Tubefink I didn't come here to Peddle micarta , I do fine in that respect already. I came here for what I stated but, non experts keep coming at me not really allowing that vibe. Any real Experts I have a relationship with in real knife dealings (mostly Randalls) see eye to eye on Everything - All the time. They know what I have (although nobody's seen more that maybe 15 percent of My W-H Micarta. Boardrider knows what he's looking at. They (WH) had to quit using Asbestos in 79 & by early 80's swithched to some epoxies for the decoratives instead. The thing is Alot of people only think they Pressed Ivorite, A-gold & What AGES to brown 'old Brown'(Nat/Bleached) Phenolic a non Decorative. Any Vintage Micarta with Blackline Always Indicates westinghouse (To My knowledge)unless I-P carried the same thing thru , but i've never known that to be true. On the A-ivory & Old Brown the Blacklines were put in it to see from forklifts afar way up on shelves for Identification purposes in Industry. This Pic that i'll upload of Tan aged Paper in 1" (70's no Asbestos) it, was pressed for decorative visual purposes. i'll go ahead & upload the Ivory blackLine (early 80's - for learning & reference) .I probably have 50 different Recipes of Westinghouse Micarta , About a Half ton left. Not much Ivorite (No Block Stock) or A-gold left. Ken

To follow up on Crutch...this is the only brown micarta I have to post up
:-)Rocky

Here's a #15 I own with Brown Micarta. Newer. Gary Randall told me it is customer supplied.

Rocky/Tony - those are some "sharp" looking knives! I really like the look of the brown micarta. Nice seasonal pic you have there Tony!

Let's keep the brown micarta coming..... this one is one of my favorites (aren't they all?).

Brown micarta, brown button sheath, and a lugged nickel silver hilt. Lugged NS was never offered as an option, but.....like all Randall rules, there are exceptions.

Another odd feature of this package is the stitching on the sheath. Johnsons of this ere were call "tight stitched"....this knife has noticeably wider stitch spacing than most in this period.

Truly.... Randall geek sh!t.....

Sweet #1 Tubefink ! But All nice Randalls.

The 2 #1's above look like the Fine weave Linen and the others look like larger weave Cotton. Also You can notice Color Variations in the same Recipes (Diff. Lot/Batches) because only the intended Decorative recipes such as Ivorite, A-Gold, Wh./Iv Linen and so forth, Had the more Chemically Controlled Resin formulas (although some Varied to some point ~ usually not as dramatically. I believe The Last A -gold Batch (if I remember correctly was around 08')Randall recd. by 'N'ew micarta company was turned back because the Popular Decorative color Did not look like it was supposed to and N-company wasn't happy with it as well, 'N'ew company told me the Chem. Restrictions have made it nearly impossible to Press for Color, so they pretty much gave up on it. Kenstix