2020 GEC #62 Easy Pocket Congress and Pocket Carver Thread

Mine's on the way across the Atlantic, so there won't be a hot off the press review from me;) Usually 5-8 days to get here, held in Customs 4 days, they then send me a letter (no e-mail or texts, bizarre) demanding import tax, this letter could take a week- only 3 deliveries a week now and no Post Office, it closed last week, just a Post 'point' in a food shop:rolleyes: Then I pay 25% online, swift but complicated, the packet is 'released' then up to a week to get here....in 2009 when I first started getting GECs from America they sometimes arrived to my door in THREE DAYS, usually 5. That's because we had three Post offices in town, 5 deliveries a week and Customs ignored small packets;) Now we have digital progress and customer service....:poop: in cruder terms:D

Looking forward to getting it though:thumbsup:
 
Will Power said:
Mine's on the way across the Atlantic, so there won't be a hot off the press review from me;) Usually 5-8 days to get here, held in Customs 4 days, they then send me a letter (no e-mail or texts, bizarre) demanding import tax, this letter could take a week- only 3 deliveries a week now and no Post Office, it closed last week, just a Post 'point' in a food shop:rolleyes: Then I pay 25% online, swift but complicated, the packet is 'released' then up to a week to get here....in 2009 when I first started getting GECs from America they sometimes arrived to my door in THREE DAYS, usually 5. That's because we had three Post offices in town, 5 deliveries a week and Customs ignored small packets;) Now we have digital progress and customer service....:poop: in cruder terms:D

Looking forward to getting it though:thumbsup:
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YIKES!

To Canada it typically takes less than 10 days. Customs usually flags it right through but it still has to clear the border. I have one time been dinged for import taxes when Canada and the US were in a dispute and any imported steel could have a surcharge. Regular mail is still delivered five days a week and it is too a community post box about 100 yards from my home. It services about 50 homes. They boxes are scattered around on most every block. We have lots of those outsourced post offices in grocery stores or drug stores if you need to deal with an clerk. I do not order any modern flip or assisted knives from outside Canada. That could be a whole pile of grief if intercepted. Only traditional. The postal workers pension fund is billions underfunded. Some day that has to blow up with all the baby boomers getting ready to retire.

,,,Mike in Canada
 
GEC is starting 2020 with a bang with the long-awaited return of the Easy Pocket Congress!

Excellent all around. Pull is just right. It walks smoothly and talks loudly. Outstanding fit and finish.
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This is one sweet pocket knife!
 
MerryMadMonk said:
GEC is starting 2020 with a bang with the long-awaited return of the Easy Pocket Congress!

Excellent all around. Pull is just right. It walks smoothly and talks loudly. Outstanding fit and finish.
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This is one sweet pocket knife!
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Looks awesome! I've got a unicorn ivory heading my way sometime soon. Can't wait.
 
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Noticed the closed length is slightly shorter than the Tidioute version...perhaps a misprint?
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Jiki said:
Well dam.
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I wasn't really interested in the Pocket Carver, but I'm a sucker for Farm & Field knives, and I really like the Muslin Micarta GEC uses. I may have to have one of these. :D

(I'm curious to see how the Red & Black Micarta comes out, too. As far as I remember, GEC hasn't done a multi-colored/layered Micarta before.)
 
btb01 said:
I wasn't really interested in the Pocket Carver, but I'm a sucker for Farm & Field knives, and I really like the Muslin Micarta GEC uses. I may have to have one of these. :D

(I'm curious to see how the Red & Black Micarta comes out, too. As far as I remember, GEC hasn't done a multi-colored/layered Micarta before.)
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Recently used red and black micarta on a northwoods run. Looked very nice.
 
waverave said:
Interesting how they took the same shield but left it plain...wonder what the name of that shield is going to be?
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Wharn said:
Ah man... was hoping for “Tidioute” in there.
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I'm sure there's an exception (and maybe I'm wrong entirely), but I think GEC generally uses smooth shields with smooth handle materials because they shape/smooth them together, and they use textured shields (like those with writing on them) with textured handle materials (jigged bone, etc.).

Jiki said:
Recently used red and black micarta on a northwoods run. Looked very nice.
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Thanks, I'll have to check that out. :thumbsup:
 
btb01 said:
I'm sure there's an exception (and maybe I'm wrong entirely), but I think GEC generally uses smooth shields with smooth handle materials because they shape/smooth them together, and they use textured shields (like those with writing on them) with textured handle materials (jigged bone, etc.).



Thanks, I'll have to check that out. :thumbsup:
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Looking forward to the camel bone congress. Put in a reservation for the carver in cocobolo, but those farm & field models look nice too.
 
Looks like no Splitback and only 2 springs that run parallel. Wondering what that looks like. We there other knives gec has done like this already with 3 blades?
 
If I'm not mistaken, originally, a split-back spring was actually one wide spring that was somehow split halfway down to make the whittler configuration of main riding on the wide end, and the two secondaries each riding on one of the two halves of the split. I may have seen a picture of one, but can't be sure, and any like that would be a rare find.

What is now called a split spring whittler is two springs, with or without a tapered liner, mimicking this split. The main riding on both springs.
I wonder what GEC has in store that they are calling non-traditional?
 
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