Hi G !
When I bougth...5 or 6 years ago...I was told it was a special order with customer suppl material....as 30+ years old...brown micarta..!

On the Brown Micarta , The 1st. (i believe) picture of a #1 posted/ uploade in this topic is Fine weave linen on that #1. (standard handle) Steve's low - S randall has small/med weave With Flipped or Rotated grain by 90Deg. like the pictures of the brown I already uploaded. When someone says that's it ~ That's the type of old Brown , What Their saying is : They like small weave Linen/cotton & that they like the Grain Rotated (Flipped by 90d). the Colors of all these old Batches/Lots vary much. There is no Brown that will always look like steve's (even with flipped grain)When You flip/rotate the grain you get the arrowhed pattern)The said pattern look, doesn't in itself make it a Different type or more Rare special Brown (what it does is make a Prettier cut, to most ~ We cut probably 80% of it for Randalls this way) - only the Era it was made made & batch it happen to be from. To find more Sheet/Block exactly like the browns I have (or Steve's), would be a never ending needle in a haystack - it just aint like that. the reason they flipped the grain is because when they came down a 1.5 sheet for blanks they had less waste by cutting say a 1" for a slot blank than automatically using up 1.5 x 1.5" (that is the main reason most grains got flipped - now we cut alot that way to get that look. / some of them are even tri-colored if you look close up with good specs, some look brown & tan, some look brown with Darker (almost black) brown. Finally Guido's pair is standard cut (flat grain) Large weave canvas. To wind this up , The OB's can range from yellow to lighter brown inside (again these weren't decoratively preserved) What you see on they wonderful Handles are AGED. And to get the similar look like that low-S , You need to make sure the blank is cut rotated (side Lams showing) that's the key. Kenstix

I have seen many photos of 14s with handles just like the one pictured.

Its possible to copy it just takes someone who knows Micarta.

It's Easy to 'Copy' Ben (although we just call it doing a traditional build / for the OB) Knowing Micarta is Good, but if I Run out of Stock that makes that Weave Pattern (Arrowhead look ~ on flipped grain) Knowledge wont help us put that Build together if We're just plain out of Material. Generally that weave occurs on the Fine & Small ~ med lin./Cotton not many runs of Large weave Canvas produce it. Kenstix

Steve,
I've got a canteen snap that's vacant right now....
:-)Rocky

Not sure canteen type was original to the knife--seems to go with tenite screw-on version, according to catalog 16. Catalog 17 shows baby dot strap for the micarta knives. (Anyway, if I recall correctly, the knife came with a large copper riveted sheath, as shown below, so I'd prefer to try for one of those--if anywhere near reasonable in cost.)

Anyway, I have managed to obtain two riveted sheaths. The top one was made for me by Greg Gutcher, and a few years ago I bought the bottom one from Perry Miller along with an early Model 14 (but without the brown micarta handle). Unfortunately, the bottom one is not a split-back, and doesn't have the two large copper rivets at the throat which I would prefer.

Rocky pm sent.

Here's Boardriders #14 with My 80's W~house (1") Maroon Full Thru Tang. With Allig. tail (Greg) Sheath. An Instant Randall Classic

that is one BEAUTIFUL knife!