$50.00
Refresh your everyday carry, match your kit, or build out a collection of looks for every season — the F3 swappable handle scale system lets you transform your knife in minutes with a few turns of a screwdriver. Same trusted F3 platform. New personality.
Natural Canvas Micarta is the original — the warm tan of the Westinghouse-era handle material that's been put to work in the field for over a century, before anyone needed a color chart to choose a scale. Cotton canvas, phenolic resin, heat, and pressure: that's it. No dye, no pigment, no marketing — just the honest color of the materials themselves, unchanged for a century, unimproved upon since. The woven texture telegraphs every layer of the build, and the surface drinks in oil, sweat, and use until your handle is unmistakably yours. No two ever age the same. Same recipe. Same color. Same grip that gets stronger when wet, same stability through every season, same toughness that outlasts the knife itself. A handle that wears in instead of wearing out. Built for the working hands who came before, and the ones still doing the job today.
Each scale set is precision-machined to the exact contours of the F3 handle, preserving the ergonomic geometry that makes the F3 so comfortable to run for hours on end. The contoured shape mimics the natural curve of your palm, distributing pressure across your hand so you can grip, cut, and pry without hot spots or fatigue. Drop them on, get back to work — the comfort doesn't change. Only the look.
Canvas Micarta is the time-tested favorite of hard-working hands — pioneered by Westinghouse a century ago and trusted ever since. Layers of woven cotton canvas are saturated in phenolic resin and compressed under heat and pressure into a handle that does what almost nothing else can: gets grippier the wetter it gets. Where polymers slick out and G-10 plays it neutral, canvas Micarta drinks up moisture across its woven surface and rewards you with a tackier, more secure grip — exactly when you need it most. Messy hands. Wet hands. Sweaty hands. Cold rain, hot kitchens, fish cleaning, field dressing — canvas Micarta thrives where other handles fail. And it only gets better with use, developing a deep, hand-worn patina that no factory finish can fake.
We could've cut corners and sourced cheap overseas composites. We didn't. Every F3 scale is machined from authentic UltreX® G-10 or UltreX® Micarta® — the same materials trusted by true professionals and the original Westinghouse-pioneered Micarta® formulation, modernized for today's demands. Made by Norplex-Micarta in Postville, Iowa, USA.
Choose your material. Choose your color. Build the F3 that fits your hand, your style, and your day.
Like the F3 itself, every scale set is machined in the USA from American-made composites. Premium materials. Skilled hands. No shortcuts.
Customize your carry. Refresh your favorite EDC. Make the F3 unmistakably yours.
Reiff Knives are made in the USA and are backed by our Carry No Cares Warranty™.