I'm going with shop supplied. I'm with Chief, I would love to see the Maple and Walnut.

I belive that this was shop supplied Birds Eye Maple.
.LLB from a previous Forum build

Lori,

This is a Smitty I owned a few years back that was supplied with shop Walnut.

Thanks Dennis and Warren, for pictures.

Walnut if we are doing shop supplied
Flame if it's the Captains

Shop supplied Ironwood.

Shop supplied walnut has a big range of figure and color/character. The best stuff that I have seen in posts coming from the shop has been Ironwood. Maple is okay; but my vote is Ironwood.

Tom Flynn

OK--ironwood.

Larry

Did I hear ironwood

To mix things up a bit...

"If" we wanted to go with an ebony look (which some of the true antique bowies had (with black as the basic color with a possibility of a bit of brownish included), and a natural material instead of Micarta, I "might" have some African blackwood large enough for the bowie. I have had sticks of it for 45 years, fully cured, and can check the dimensions in about a month-and-a-half.

I think a natural material should go on this build, and like all the ideas so far.

Larry