2020 GEC #23 Trapper Thread

These turned out great.

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JOELSM said:
These turned out great.

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Maybe it's the angle but in this picture I dislike the bone on the one with the blades open and love the bone on the one with the blades closed, looks like the old Queen winter bottom bone which was great bone.
 
Augie said:
Maybe it's the angle but in this picture I dislike the bone on the one with the blades open and love the bone on the one with the blades closed, looks like the old Queen winter bottom bone which was great bone.
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Agreed here, that was the first thing that came to mind for me as well.
 
Wow! My fingers are crossed that my liner lock comes with scarred up scales similar to the pile side of yours. Looks great!
Augie said:
Received the smooth Autumn bone today, lot of Autumn orange/yellow to it. Has just about perfect pulls for a knife this size, 6 to 7, just a little bitnless than the beaver chewed.


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wildmike said:
Has anyone any idea on what shield will be on the Northfield brown jigged bone 23's?
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We will all find out after the release. I have been checking production photos , five times a day. I am guessing the "Hounds Tooth". The pre-production drawings of the GEC#23 Woodland Micarta showed a Hounds Tooth shield. GEC went with the badge shield instead. WHY ? Putting the cooler looking Hounds tooth on a cheaper knife would really make collectors angry. Bill Howard knows what he is doing. My prediction is a Northfield GEC#23 Pioneer Trapper Chocolate Almond Peach-seed bone with a hounds tooth shield.
 
khopesh said:
Just received the OKCA #23. Very impressed!

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Thank you so much Sir for posting this knife. I paid for mine on January 3rd ,2020. We all have been sweating it out on this knife. I am so tickled that our club knives turned out as well as it did. This knife is better than the #23 Beaver gnawed cherry wood knife. I was shocked to see the Shaner Club knife with Beaver gnawed cherry wood with un-exciting etching. I bought the cheaper Tidioute #23 Beaver knife instead. The OKCA 2020 looked like wavy "Rogers" jigging to me. Very hard to tell in the photos. I will be so happy to receive that knife in my hand.
 
BuckShack said:
I better practice my half stops on my 54 while I wait. It should be here in a couple of days. I sometimes use a table to open the blade the rest if the way. To close, I go full palm, no fingers and let the tail slap on the water.
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I love your #54 beaver cherry wood knife. I hope GEC repeats this wood on any GEC pattern. The Brazilian cherry wood beaver gnawed jigged is a whole new animal and should be used on any future GEC knife. I wished GEC would make more wood knives in the future.
 
JOELSM said:
These turned out great.

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Those look really nice.... I've wondered about the "exotic India bone" since I first saw the pics of them on their website. Is this just regular cow bone that is jigged that way? When I first saw the name for it, I wasn't sure what it was. I guess I'm still not sure...:rolleyes::oops:
One of them looks almost like tree bark, and the other one, as was mentioned by augie, looks just like winterbottom. Where does this exotic stuff come from? Enquiring minds, and all that....:D
 
I think Bill or whoever designs the knives is trying to channel some old-timey American knife advertising, throwing in adjectives like “Exotic”. It’s a lot more interesting and evocative (if not exactly technically descriptive) to call something “India Bone” instead of, say, “Swooping line-jigged off-white Bovine bone.”
 
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