It's laminated Pistachio Joe, buy was never sold to me as anything else. It also looks like G-3 or G-10.
As Yul Brenner stated in "The King & I"...
"It's a puzzlement".
Stay Sharp, Capt. Chris
PS: I've found some excellent examples of Pistachio Wood on Google but cannot figure out how to change the photo format to something that will
Download to this forum???
CCS

How about that. Kinda odd that someone would laminate wood in that fashion, and you are certain it is Pistachio wood? Seems like a lot of work slicing thin pieces of wood and laying them up like lasagna in alternating layers with the cloth. I suspect it is dyed as well.

If it's "webp", you can convert it to jpg with Irfanview (yet another app to install on your laptop).

I like those criders for sure. And that pistachio is really interesting too.
Walker

Have y’all seen a crider in use? Or just as collectors now?
Walker

Is this any help?

That's it Steve, thanks. The 2nd row...2nd one in from the left, next to the photo with the girl in it...is what I'm familiar with. It can get quite expensive to buy...dry...send of and have stabilized...and get it installed at the Randall shop...but it's way-coool stuff.
Jack told me, when I ordered my pair, to just "drop off whatever handle material I wanted to use" at the Randall shop. When he saw the end result he was pissed, giving me that permission...(I know not why).
Stay Sharp, Capt. Chris
PS: Joe: Yes...it is dyed, just another expense...ha-ha.
CCS

Hey Walker, seems to me that a Crider in use, at least what to me it looks like it was built to be used for, would mean that it was in a high conflict situation buried deeply into the son of a gun one was locked in a life and death conflict with. Of course there may be other very appropriate uses. Just looks like what it was built for, to me.

Mr Michael Mason said I caught his attention and peaked his interest (pg.1 this thread) when I posted a couple sentences about my curly maple ‘73 Gibson Les Paul bass so I’ll try to post a couple not so great pics. I’ve been fortunate enough to play her all these years for hundreds of hours up an down the southern east coast……Virginia’s eastern shore to West Palm Beach to West Texas and she’s never let me down even once. Rock & roll, blue grass, country, gospel, jazz and blues and she was absolutely beautiful every time; at least in my eyes.
Anyway, my pictures do not do her justice.

Wow Duke, a real beauty, and no belt buckle scratches either!! Amazing!

Pap