Many years ago some friends of mine that leased some of my land for deer hunting had a set of identical fixed blade skinning knives made by a custom knife maker named Larry Page. When they told me of their plan I asked what they were going to have the grips (scales) made of. They had no idea and I donated some seasoned, dry osage orange.
They presented me with one of the knives. Each one had the owner's name engraved on the spine. The osage orange scales are very dark in color and, as mentioned, very hard.
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