Black
Copper
Hippo

3 C GG.

What?

Any way we can see some of these & is a matched to the hilt butt plate doable?

Black/Aluminum
BB...or...CC
Fos. Wal. Or Hippo

I'm finding it difficult to visualize and configure a complimentary spacer array without knowing the material or color of the knife handle.

Are we thinking about a light (or lighter) colored handle material, to contrast the darker blade and hilt? Something like FWI, oosic, musk ox or hippo tooth? If so, we may wish to consider a spacer array which would enhance the transition from the darker blade/hilt color to lighter handle color. Possibly a blue/copper or aluminum theme with a hippo, giraffe or pinecone accent spacer. Green/brass or maroon/brass or aluminum themes would probably work equally well.

Or are we considering an all-dark design...a night-fighter or stealth mode blade? If so, we may wish to consider all dark spacers with maybe a subtle metallic spacer accent. Possibly a black or dark blue spacer theme with a copper or aluminum metallic accent and some dark wood (ironwood, ebony, walnut) or buffalo horn as the accent spacer.

Or we could go with a dark/light theme and transition from dark (blade/hilt) to light (black and white spacers with an aluminum or copper accent and a FWI, oosic, musk ox, or bighorn sheep accent spacer) and back to dark (buffalo horn handle with blued steel butt cap).

I think that I prefer the dark-light-dark design theme of the knife best and so I will vote for:

-Spacer Primary: 2 (black)& 5 (white)
-Metallic Spacer Accents: C (Copper)
-Other Accent Spacers: BB (FWI)

Bob

Come into the light!

Hippo gives the bleached white contrast against the blued hilt & blade; agree with the blue and aluminum or brass! Chief thinks it should have a butt plate; i am good with that.

Just sayin'

Tom Flynn

4 - Blue
A - Aluminum
CC - Hippo

Have a good day,

Jay

A buttplate should not be a problem, so long as there is no thonghole. If I don't see any new votes before the end of the day I'll open it up for handle material voting over the weekend. In the future handle material vote will come before spacer- sorry to have thrown anyone for a loop. A wise man once told me (many times) "it's your world, I'm just playing in it" and I couldn't agree more so however you fellas want the build to go is fine with me. Heck, we could even start with handle material next time before we even get to the blade shape.

Regardless, let's finalize these spacers and get this one a cranking. If we can get it all together by next week this one could possibly be in the next forge.

Alright, so I went ahead and tallied each mention of each variable, though I recognize that many of these mentions reflected different combos, counting each suggested combo would have spread the votes out too far. Instead, here is what I suggest from the averages.

Black & blue spacer theme (maybe with one or two white spacers?) along with a hippo tooth spacer tastefully accented with both copper and aluminum. Black had 4 votes, blue had 3; hippo had 5 (followed by 2 for walrus) and both aluminum and copper were mentioned 6 times where brass only twice.

Does anyone disagree? With what we're putting together thus far this is a truly knock-out combo.

I'll let vetos and/or suggestions ring over the weekend. Along with your comments, please start naming handle materials you want to see and we'll vote on the 3 most mentioned starting Monday.

Here's a shot of the color scheme and a few similar spacers we've done with black, blue, musk ox and aluminum.