2022 GEC Cattle Knife/Camp Knife #35 Thread

[Alex.Y.]

Jiki

 

[Jiki]

Jiki

Thank you, this is the stuff that intrigues me. The history and the why, much more interesting than "is it snappy" or "which steel is better" to me at least.

 

[Alex.Y.]

Thank you, this is the stuff that intrigues me. The history and the why, much more interesting than "is it snappy" or "which steel is better" to me at least.

Amen! You should also check The Story of Cutlery by J.B. Himsworth.

 

[Your Name Goes Here]

“I don’t know what it’s called… I just know the sound it makes when it takes a man’s life.”

Is that a Mister Rogers quote ?

 

[BGMoHunter]

From my intel, there will be just this one scale offered on the Cattle knife.

That’s a shame. Those would have looked great in a wood cover like the mesquite or medium rare ebony.

 

[stagmeister]

That’s a shame. Those would have looked great in a wood cover like the mesquite or medium rare ebony.

Not to mention some nice stag.

 

[Tuna]

Not to mention some nice stag.

Agreed. Stag would be perfect.

 

[Jiki]

This was the knife slated when they reopened after the covid lock down that evolved to the beer and sausage. So Autumn jigged bone, ebony, and nat. micarta is what was missed.

Edit. I'm just happy it got made at all and it is beautiful just the way it is.

 

[plaidsteelwool]

From my intel, there will be just this one scale offered on the Cattle knife.

I wonder if this means the end of the entire run of the 35s, or if it will be like the 65s with 2 or three versions on the pattern...camp knife???

 

[Jiki]

I wonder if this means the end of the entire run of the 35s, or if it will be like the 65s with 2 or three versions on the pattern...camp knife???

We know there is a peach seed cover coming, what it is, is the mystery.

 

[EngrSorenson]

This was the knife slated when they reopened after the covid lock down that evolved to the beer and sausage.

Damn you, Covid!
*shakes fist in air*

 

[Woodrow F Call]

That’s a shame. Those would have looked great in a wood cover like the mesquite or medium rare ebony.

Or just to make enough knives to where they were obtainable.

 

[sf fanatic]

Or just to make enough knives to where they were obtainable.

They are all obtainable, it just comes down to how much are you willing to spendable.

 

[Let'er Buck]

We know there is a peach seed cover coming, what it is, is the mystery.

Where did you see the peach seed mentioned? I saw the black jigged photo

 

[Gautam Goel]

Just found out about these when I checked the GEC blog and thought to myself, damn, I really need to snag one! Then I checked this forum and realized I am already too late

 

[Camillus]

From what I’ve seen, it seems the more folks look forward to something, the more inclined Bill is to throw that idea a bit leftfield. Sometimes with amazing results, other times not so much.

(I would like to see GEC make a northfield leftfield one day, that is, if they haven’t already)

 

[Will Power]

It would be fab to gat a Levine 4, but once again being in Europe seems to make that impossible. I suspect they cost the earth too... as an aside, does anybody know if B.Levine is still active? He's of advanced years and he hasn't been giving any input on his part of the Forum for a long time

Second aside, in someways it CAN clarify matters to regard a Jack knife as 2 blades one end, there are double ended Jacks but I feel it's more descriptive to regard them as Pen type construction. Penknives being blades at each end often single spring, original Penknives were the Quill type, long handle short blade for sharpening Quills prior to steel nib manufacture early c19th. Penknives can later be seen with 3 blades in some old catalogues but this was likely cutlery firms' rationale and 'Penknife' is the usual general term used by non knife types to describe what we all like here: Traditional spring knives 1 and more blades

 

[Jiki]

Where did you see the peach seed mentioned? I saw the black jigged photo

Same photo.

It would be fab to gat a Levine 4, but once again being in Europe seems to make that impossible. I suspect they cost the earth too... as an aside, does anybody know if B.Levine is still active? He's of advanced years and he hasn't been giving any input on his part of the Forum for a long time

Second aside, in someways it CAN clarify matters to regard a Jack knife as 2 blades one end, there are double ended Jacks but I feel it's more descriptive to regard them as Pen type construction. Penknives being blades at each end often single spring, original Penknives were the Quill type, long handle short blade for sharpening Quills prior to steel nib manufacture early c19th. Penknives can later be seen with 3 blades in some old catalogues but this was likely cutlery firms' rationale and 'Penknife' is the usual general term used by non knife types to describe what we all like here: Traditional spring knives 1 and more blades

I believe That cutlers of the past and present have done us no favors in the sorting of these things due to the fact that they have not followed a single rule while naming them in their catalogs.

 

[Will Power]

Same photo.

I believe That cutlers of the past and present have done us no favors in the sorting of these things due to the fact that they have not followed a single rule while naming them in their catalogs.

Very true Foolish are one who try to 'prove' that this or that was the case 100 + years ago because somebody said, wrote in a catalogue heard/misheard it on the grapevine etc. Cutlers are in business, if they think something will sell or get well received they'll promote any naming I recall some years back when the 2009 Forum Knife from Queen was mooted with Clip/Wharncliffe same size ,a number of fogeyish bores came out blustering that it wasn't 'traditional' on a Barlow, nobody had ever heard of it zzzzzz they soon changed their tune and swam with the tide When Tony Bose put a Wharncliffe on a Trapper instead of a Spey (good idea!) no doubt the keepers of truth started frothing, for a while. GEC has made plenty of interesting variations on themes and some bizarre naming too

Catalogues appear to suggest that Equal End Jacks were bigger knives with equal sized blades, so-called to differentiate them from smaller Pen type construction that had Master and secondary blades.

 

[Nature Boy]

Did I know that these were going to have steel liners?
I didn’t realize how much I needed GEC to make such a solid knife like this again.