2020 GEC #62 Easy Pocket Congress and Pocket Carver Thread

There's some nice looking SFOs in the production pics, Micarta, Desert Ironwood etc. Looks like a real festival :cool::thumbsup:
 
Fresh out of the tube.

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I have finally given up on keeping knives that I do not use very often. So, my accumulation will soon be very small. I plan to have two of the easy pocket congress knives. I have the red jigged bone already and I’m looking to buy an ivory one. Looking to keep two because I really believe this will be one of the most useful pocket knife patterns that I can have and regularly use. Plus, it is one of the best built Great Eastern patterns that I have experienced in the last couple of years.

I will supplement it with a micarta Eureka Jack. Had a camel bone 92 but sold it. Too slippery for the uses I put it to. Pretty though.
 
Mayonardo said:
I have finally given up on keeping knives that I do not use very often. So, my accumulation will soon be very small. I plan to have two of the easy pocket congress knives. I have the red jigged bone already and I’m looking to buy an ivory one. Looking to keep two because I really believe this will be one of the most useful pocket knife patterns that I can have and regularly use. Plus, it is one of the best built Great Eastern patterns that I have experienced in the last couple of years.

I will supplement it with a micarta Eureka Jack. Had a camel bone 92 but sold it. Too slippery for the uses I put it to. Pretty though.
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I’d be interested to see what you’re setting loose when ya do!
 
Ruhiger Sturm said:
I’d be interested to see what you’re setting loose when ya do!
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ummmm, yeah, ditto. If you decide to part ways with a certain ebony #66 calf roper..... well, you get the picture! :D

speaking of pictures, that's me on the right in the picture above....:cool:
 
Jiki said:
I was whittling a particularly stick piece of pine when I broke the tip of the warncliff on my 82 Dixie in stage.
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The same happened to me with a GEC 47 Viper. At the very end of a pull cut the tip went through an hidden knot causing a slight twist. The wharmcliffe blade tip, being located at the thinnest part of the grind, is the most brittle of all blade shapes. The handle of the 47 is too thin to be easy to control, the blade is long, the tip is brittle. Any torque can be devastating. Not a problem a file can't solve but i lost the knife few days later.
When things go wrong...

Dan.
 
Elgatodeacero said:
I thought a catch bit was pinned into one end of a knife next to a blade?
I don’t think a full length liner is the same as a catch bit?
I feel like “catch bit” is one of the most poorly labeled items in the knife world.
It catches nothing..... it should be called a blade well spacer. Or at least call it something fun like a “plendocular champer minder.”
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A catch bit is a spacer which catches on the end of a spring to prevent it from rotating along with the blade as it opens.
 
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