This thread has been very interesting but also a bit confusing for me. RMK is currently making knives with ivorite, black, green and maroon micarta, right? I assume that these types of micarta are still being made so is the reference above about no longer being made to some other type of material? Really interesting how many different looks you get with the brown micarta depending on the "recipe" and the orientation and so forth.

There is also the red/blue micarta available from the shop, but it is not in the catalog. I don't believe it is available on some of the larger knives, but don't quote me on that.
Other micartas and G10 are available as customer or dealer supplied "custom wood" with an additional fee for fitting the customer supplied material. There is a listing on what size the material must be for the particular knives. A dealer can help you with the right size material for a particular knife if you are interested
There are also canvas, linen and paper micartas that have different grains too

Peter

Here is question for the Micarta Experts here. Does anyone know what brand or manufacturer the shop currently uses for thier Micarta? oldguy

Mr Westinghouse invented stuff early last century. His company sold rights to International Paper, who then divest including American plant in Iowa (?), maybe mid 1980 to Norplex. The are only supply of genuine Micarta and have opened plants in far east/China I think. Probable I must come back and edit after looking.

For Clarification

p.s. ~ Alot of Education came to Me from People in the Professional Plastics business for 30 - 40 years and from continually dropping off samples and Cross-Referecing ALL Micartas. ( because hardly Anyone in the Sporting world knew what they were talking about in regards to micarta + Still dont , because they couldn't hear and most still cant.

I could Actually type all of the W_H Decorative Catalog numbers into this Message Field , but I just dont see a Real Good reason to

Kenstix

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