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The GEC#23 Schedule has been re-edited again. The Kifer #23LL Blue Camel bone liner-lock single blade is back on. GEC forgot to add liner lock in the description. "Yahoooo !" I got one on pre-order !
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Four fingers and a thumb , I need that liner lock. I have six #23LL liner-locks & four #23 Trapper two blades on pre-order. I've gone fool for #23s. And I am expecting secret surprise Bull-lock #23 too. "Hope & Dream !"I have a 73 linerlock that I carry every day. I preordered the micarta LL because a knife this big will be a user, and I find the linerlock to be a genuinely useful feature. Only takes one time getting careless with a heavily taped up box and accidentally closing the blade on yourself before you start to reevaluate the desirability of a lock on your “working” knife.
Roger that. I saw my mistake after I posted. Haste makes waste.While I’m sure that’s called “woodland Micarta,” it’s not what’ll be on these knives. GEC has already posted in-progress photos. Their Woodland Micarta is basically their Muslin Micarta with dark grooves cut into it.
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The finished product should look something like the handles on this fixed blade knife shown here:
To my eye this shield always makes the covers look better...
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To my eye this shield always makes the covers look better...
That looks tasteful. The work in progress photo looked to me like they're just equal width grooves the length of the cover. That might be OK, but I don't think it will be nearly as attractive as that mock up ...
To my eye this shield always makes the covers look better...
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That looks tasteful. The work in progress photo looked to me like they're just equal width grooves the length of the cover. That might be OK, but I don't think it will be nearly as attractive as that mock up ...
To my eye this shield always makes the covers look better...
I agree 100%. The hounds tooth ( I believe this is what this shields called) makes any of their scales look good. Gonna be hard not to snag one up, for me at least.
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Well it looks like new jigging for the beaver tailAh good eye...I think the Shaner jigging would be good change
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The most recent in production photo does have some of the characteristics of the mock up... if you zoom in... especially the one on the right.
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That's pretty cool jigging, kind of has a prehistoric flint knapping pattern going.Photos showing the new jigging on the beaver tail.
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