Oh, my. As nice as the blade is, it's the eye-candy handle that has me oogly 
The handle came from a dead maple tree I cut down at my rental property. I discovered the whole thing was figured after I cut it up for firewood.

Luckily I saved a bunch for box building. I've had it over a year and only built one box so I think the rest is gonna get used on knives.

I've also got a big stash of figured walnut I'm using.
Thanks for the encouragement fellas. I've got a bunch more knives in the works.