2019 GEC Pemberton Thread

GE Jr said:
In polishing... :thumbsup:
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Looking good and blue. The Tidioute shield looks nice on the frame.
JohnDF said:
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The bar shield also looks nice.

I wonder if the 2 blade models will have the same shields.
 
It is interesting to note that one of the biggest complaints that seems to be directed towards GEC as of late is their jigging. Now ordinarily, I might look past it since I have not experienced jigged bone of old and have had nothing to compare it to until relatively recently. But now that I do have something that has some real quality jigging, it makes me question GEC's current methods. Clearly, based on past examples, they have the ability to produce some great jigging but it would appear that most of the recent runs have garnered criticism.

My #82 has some splintery bone and I wouldn't have thought much of it (thinking it would wear smooth) except that it is being noted by others in that particular thread. Considering the apparent lack of quality effort with their current jigging, it begs the question as to why their process is such a secret.
 
It looks to me like they run the bone under a cutter wheel in angled lines and raise and lower the cutter to create jigging.

Not sure how Culpepper does their incredible jigging, but to me the Culpepper style jigging is clearly superior in looks. Even Case has better jigging on their CV bone line of knives.

The tire tread jigging is just not acceptable to me.
 
Pàdruig said:
It is interesting to note that one of the biggest complaints that seems to be directed towards GEC as of late is their jigging. Now ordinarily, I might look past it since I have not experienced jigged bone of old and have had nothing to compare it to until relatively recently. But now that I do have something that has some real quality jigging, it makes me question GEC's current methods. Clearly, based on past examples, they have the ability to produce some great jigging but it would appear that most of the recent runs have garnered criticism.

My #82 has some splintery bone and I wouldn't have thought much of it (thinking it would wear smooth) except that it is being noted by others in that particular thread. Considering the apparent lack of quality effort with their current jigging, it begs the question as to why their process is such a secret.
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Leaked photo? :eek::p:D
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Elgatodeacero said:
It looks to me like they run the bone under a cutter wheel in angled lines and raise and lower the cutter to create jigging.

Not sure how Culpepper does their incredible jigging, but to me the Culpepper style jigging is clearly superior in looks. Even Case has better jigging on their CV bone line of knives.

The tire tread jigging is just not acceptable to me.
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A good guess I'd say. Case does a good job on their jigging considering the number of knives they produce.
 
Well, Smooth White Bone always looks good on any pattern:cool:

But I share the scepticism about some recent jigging, some earlier GEC has fine jigging as can be seen on countless examples on this part of the Forum. Moreover, unlike most CASE jigging it often runs into the bolster, but recently it's looking less convincing. More like out of the RR stable but certainly not at their compelling price.:rolleyes:
 
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