Elgatodeacero
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GEC is way overdue for a 2 blade mini trapper........
When I have time I'm gonna mock that upBarehead Peanut. With a punch blade secondary. PunchNut! (in glitter gold acrylic)
Sweet!When I have time I'm gonna mock that up
All for One and One for All!!We are burning daylight people!
Oh man , this knife gives me a great idea for a 2020 Blade Forum knife. A #23 Wharncliffe/spear blade Trapper Chocolate Almond peach-seed bone with bomb shield . I think Chocolate Almond peach-seed bone was the best new color bone scales of any blade maker in 2019. GEC smooth Honey bone with a bomb shield or antique black jigged bone with a bomb shield would be cool too.Welcome back Ted!! I'm sorry to hear you have been ill, and hope you are doing OK now!!?? Nice post on the Forum knife, and the mentions and pics of those past!
I thought I'd put in a picture of my 2012, the Wharncliffe trapper!! A useful and good-looking assemblage of blades IMO!
What'll we do this year?? I'm surprised no-one has started that thread yet!! And here we are in January!!
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Oh man , this knife gives me a great idea for a 2020 Blade Forum knife. A #23 Wharncliffe/spear blade Trapper Chocolate Almond peach-seed bone with bomb shield . I think Chocolate Almond peach-seed bone was the best new color bone scales of any blade maker in 2019. GEC smooth Honey bone with a bomb shield would be cool too.
All I'll say is it's time for a single-blade Spear
Heck, we can beef it up and keep it on the #86 frame and model it after a classic “stabber jack”. I have always wanted a modern version of one. While I know Will Power would prefer something a little more svelte, I prefer a more hearty blade
That sounds wonderful ! I bought ten GEC#86 folders. The GEC#23 will be coming up in the first quarter. My pre-order OKCA club knife will have the two large blades. Those knives have to be delivered by April 18th for the Oregon Spring Knife Show. No way GEC is going to make us an #86 frame Blade Forum Knife , after we just got one. I wanted Blade Forum member to band together and order a #64 Babylon Hill "old style brass" brass bolsters swing guard knife. We would have to order 500 knives. That might spark off a Babylon Hill #64 run. Did yall know that less than 475 Babylon Hill knives have been produced. After I spotted the #23s were going to be produced , I stopped pitching that idea. We could not asked for a tougher-better knife than a GEC#23 Trapper. I want a GEC#23 single blade with a bull lock. I want a GEC#23 Trapper with a large spear and wharncliffe blade. It is time for me to write another letter to Bill Howard. Baw-ha ! Ha ! Ha ! Ha ! Ha !Heck, we can beef it up and keep it on the #86 frame and model it after a classic “stabber jack”. I have always wanted a modern version of one. While I know Will Power would prefer something a little more svelte, I prefer a more hearty blade
That is a wonderful knife. The 2019 GEC#86s is a new run. This 2011 brown peach seed Blade Forum knife is an #85 Bullet end jack. 191 made #852211STL EONo, I actually think that's extremely suitable A Stabber Jack (Barehead mind....) would be a fine addition. There's not been a single Spear yet, the 11 and 16 editions had fine Spears but had additionals such as crown lifter and punch as did an early CS Canoe type. Ideally, it would be on a Swell End frame or more bulbous Teardrop than the 11 (a great pattern that ushered in a wonderful frame) with a Rat-Tail. Two variants: Smooth Ivory Bone and Osage Orange Ok that's settled, no polls no bickering Let's hope a Top Man concludes the deal with GEC next week as a gesture, I'll even keep quiet about a stainless version as I know it's a bridge too far
Mind you, a single Spear Talon in Smooth Bone/Camel (Apollosa?) with all steel would be a pretty fair alternative, a dressy one with Rat-Tail and Banner like the Galvanics and it's an 'off the shelf ' pattern too
Here's the 2011 86 frame a NICE Spear for sure!
GEC is way overdue for a 2 blade mini trapper........
That is a wonderful knife. The 2019 GEC#86s is a new run. This 2011 brown peach seed Blade Forum knife is an #85 Bullet end jack. 191 made #852211STL EO
...... It is time for me to write another letter to Bill Howard. Baw-ha ! Ha ! Ha ! Ha ! Ha !
Great picture, and always nice to see this kind of grail knife!No, I actually think that's extremely suitable A Stabber Jack (Barehead mind....) would be a fine addition. There's not been a single Spear yet, the 11 and 16 editions had fine Spears but had additionals such as crown lifter and punch as did an early CS Canoe type. Ideally, it would be on a Swell End frame or more bulbous Teardrop than the 11 (a great pattern that ushered in a wonderful frame) with a Rat-Tail. Two variants: Smooth Ivory Bone and Osage Orange Ok that's settled, no polls no bickering Let's hope a Top Man concludes the deal with GEC next week as a gesture, I'll even keep quiet about a stainless version as I know it's a bridge too far
Mind you, a single Spear Talon in Smooth Bone/Camel (Apollosa?) with all steel would be a pretty fair alternative, a dressy one with Rat-Tail and Banner like the Galvanics and it's an 'off the shelf ' pattern too
Here's the 2011 86 frame a NICE Spear for sure!
Great picture, and always nice to see this kind of grail knife!
I always thought it was on a #85 pattern with a teardrop Jack...?
Unless I'm very much mistaken, the second "blade" is the cap lifter, right?