#06 Pemberton & Wingmen

Pjake · Feb 27, 2013

About an hour ago I received my Pemberton ...... all I kept hearing myself say is "Oh SH--! Must get a backup". Just a great little knife! F&F is pretty near flawless. Love the toffee to coffee gradation on the scales. Pulls at a 6/10. Here are shots with my two main "big guys" the #76 Outlaw Jack & the #66 Rotten Banana Jack (thx Doug!!!). Other than a backup #06, buying goes on hiatus indefinitely......I can only hope.....

http://www.flickr.com/photos/94006577@N00/8514693136/in/photostream/lightbox/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/94006577@N00/8514693262/in/photostream/lightbox/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/94006577@N00/8513582465/in/photostream/lightbox/

Peter

sorry...someone please shoot me a PM so I can directly load pics onto BF...thx

pertinux · Feb 27, 2013

PM sent.

What great pictures! I'm sure glad I already have a Pemberton like yours. Beauties, indeed. :thumbup:

This is quite a pair:

I'll wait to see if you can get t'others up yourself.

~ P.

Pjake · Feb 27, 2013

Thanks Sarah... here are the others...

Peter

pertinux · Feb 27, 2013

:thumbup:

"Toffee to coffee" is a good description of the Pemberton's colors, and your pictures capture them well.

What's the bone of the Outlaw called again, copper-something?

~ P.

Pjake · Feb 27, 2013

Thx.... The Outlaw is in Copperhead Jig Bone. That purchase was inspired by Kevin....and I must say the build, fit and finish on this one is by far the best of any GEC or Case I have ever bought. Love that knife....and with wee little Pemberton riding along...all I can say is that I am very happy.

Peter

Rsmith_77 · Feb 27, 2013

ok got a question.
does the Pemberton have half-stops or no half-stops

kinda curious

Pjake · Feb 27, 2013

Rsmith_77 said:
ok got a question.
does the Pemberton have half-stops or no half-stops

kinda curious

Yes sir ... firm half stops! By the way, I really like your 85 Ebony. Here is Pemberton with my Cocobolo 85

Doug Add · Feb 27, 2013

Nice to see the 66 again, and very glad you are happy with it. Those are three beauties!

black mamba · Feb 27, 2013

Beautiful bone and jigging on the Pemberton . . . too bad it's not an inch longer!

mr_badexample · Feb 27, 2013

That first pic is a stunner. What a nice pair.

Rsmith_77 · Feb 28, 2013

Pjake said:
Yes sir ... firm half stops! Buy the way, I really like your 85 Ebony. Here is Pemberton with my Cocobolo 85

thank you! i wasnt sure
and your 85 sure is a looker too!

jwren · Feb 28, 2013

All lookers for sure, but that rotten banana mesmerizes me every time I see it! :thumbup:

pertinux · Feb 28, 2013

black mamba said:
Beautiful bone and jigging on the Pemberton . . . too bad it's not an inch longer!

And here, the above picture caused me to think about how cool the Outlaw Jack would (still) be if it were smaller!

It's interesting to contemplate how well some patterns might scale upwards or downwards in size, and/or why a "Coke Bottle" for GEC's first truly small knife, etc.

I'd love to see patterns shaped like the #15s or #25s at 3.25 (3 3/8?), for example, but wonder if they'd hold the same appeal?

Maybe we'll get to find out, someday.

~ P.

jwren · Feb 28, 2013

pertinux said:
I'd love to see patterns shaped like the #15s or #25s at 3.25 (3 3/8?), for example, but wonder if they'd hold the same appeal?

~ P.

Whoops! Misread the intended meaning of your post first time I read it

So now I've gotta edit my post yet again....

black mamba · Feb 28, 2013

An interesting observation there, Pert. When I said an inch longer, I did not mean an inch bigger to scale. I would like to see the Pemberton stretched an inch, but not made any wider or taller, just longer. Small knives tend to look OK when "pudgy," like the #25s do, but if made larger they need some slimming to look right to my eye.

pertinux · Feb 28, 2013

black mamba said:
An interesting observation there, Pert. When I said an inch longer, I did not mean an inch bigger to scale. I would like to see the Pemberton stretched an inch, but not made any wider or taller, just longer.

That's funny, especially since it would never have occurred to me that that's what you meant.

Wouldn't that be a skeeeny, un-coke-bottley knife?

Small knives tend to look OK when "pudgy," like the #25s do, but if made larger they need some slimming to look right to my eye.

I guess I understand that, though I have trouble visualizing things without actually seeing them. Heh.

However, the interesting thing about viewing knives in pictures, especially barring an imposed scale or understandable measure, is that they all look the same size to me. For example, these again (I'm not going to tire of this picture any time soon):

If I didn't know the dimensions, I could guess that the Outlaw was 4", with the Pemberton whatever-proportion-shorter-the-math-works-out-to-be. And, were that the case? They'd still look "right" to my eyes, if perhaps not a size that immediately appealed. (And, I'd think the proportions would "work" even if these turned out to be miniatures.)

But maybe it's different in real-life? Maybe the Pemberton would look mis-proportioned? If nothing else, the jigging would possibly seem too course.

(Though in truth, my concern going in was that this jigging might look too "big" for this little knife as it is. I was very wrong.)

Preferences are fun, especially with such a variety of fine choices on which to exercise them.

~ P.

jkulysses · Feb 28, 2013

Pjake said:
Thanks Sarah... here are the others...

Peter

Every single time I see pictures of that Rotten Banana 66 Jack it makes me start hunting for one again! To this day I'm envious of you for getting that knife from Doug.

It's one of the best looking GEC knives I have ever seen if not thee the best. The Pemberton is next on my list of GEC knives to get also. Great collection you have there!

black mamba · Feb 28, 2013

I tried to do this to scale, so that the fictional long Pemberton would be 3.75" closed (if the original is 2.75" closed).

The height of the stretched Pemberton is the same as the real one, but just looks thinner because of the proportions. The bolsters were stretched as well. I really like slender pocket knives . . . YMMV.

confucius37 · Feb 28, 2013

^I'd buy it Jeff!

Pjake · Feb 28, 2013

jkulysses said:
Every single time I see pictures of that Rotten Banana 66 Jack it makes me start hunting for one again! To this day I'm envious of you for getting that knife from Doug. It's one of the best looking GEC knives I have ever seen if not thee the best. The Pemberton is next on my list of GEC knives to get also. Great collection you have there!

Thanks so much for the comment. When Doug contacted me to offer it up, I was floored. I spent a fair amount of time drooling over That Rotten Jack. I am forever appreciative to Doug for giving me the opportinity to give it a home.

Peter