#35 Beer and Sausage Bar Tool Knife

I was thinking of saying that it might be the first GEC to get after a while but I think I’ll pass due the demand
 
Prester John said:
Thanks. My wife just told me, but she had to look it up somewhere. (Took me a long time to figure out "PITA"!)

If I buy one, I would use it. Got a nice blade and cap lifter, and I dig the BRR tool.
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John if you ever get stuck wondering about anything about anything these days GOOGLE is more then likely going to have your correct answer. ✌
 
I enjoy whimsy, just can't afford much of it these days...

I hardly think it will hurt GEC's credibility as a maker of fine traditional knives to produce a novelty variation on a pattern from time to time. It's almost a meta commentary on the high end hipster trend these days: Home-brewed over-hopped ales, farm to table cured meats, luxuriously conditioned beards, artisanally crafted bespoke tools for enjoying such like. Why not?

As long as they continue also making the good simple knives as well.
:D:thumbsup:
 
Jiki said:
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Did you get a cease and desist?
Markeologist said:
Here and elsewhere folks are talking as if this is the second coming of the Beer Scout and thus the FOMO...that's why I posted my BSKs...I have no such fear...I know the BSK and this is no BSK.
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It absolutely is the second coming of the BSK, they even used the same type face in the preview pic. You’ll always be the unofficial BSK pres. though as far as I’m concerned
Prester John said:
You know, "Beer & Sausage Bar Tool Knife" is probably the greatest name for a knife I've ever heard. I'm hungry and thirsty!
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Beer, and sausage and knives are absolutely my 3 favorite things. I don’t consider myself as having a beard but in 30 years ish of shaving I’ve never shaved more than once a week and usually more like once a month so the BRRT will not be a terrible addition to me but I probably will remove it.
Camillus said:
Agree. The beer scout knife was cool. It didn’t just get bought on hype. This knife is just flipperbait.
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It absolutely was bought because of the hype. Guaranteed many of those that were bought were bought by bro’s for bro’s to be beer scouts at the bar. The minute you put the word beer on something that’s not beer it’s for the hype.
 
I have a beard and i have a full head of hair.
I comb my hair twice in a day- in the morning when I wake up and before I style it, and at night after the shower and I put my honest Amish beard balm on my head and face hair.
I use a Kent comb that I’ve have for years. I have a backup in my car and another in my old 4Runner. I can’t remember the last time I used them outside of the morning and night routine.

since everyone now knows my daily hair routine- I will say I have no reason to think I’ll use the comb in this knife.

But- I am down for a couple of them for good reason.
If you think you may like a GEC- jump on it and sell it if it’s not for you. Why wait and pay double?

Being a beer scout fanatic, I was thinking the beer & sausage is like the ugly cousin. So I may as well give it a whirl. And if I decide it’s not for me I won’t lose a dime on the decision to jump early.
 
Jiki said:
Nah, it just did not to be as good of an idea at 9am as it did at 1am.
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Been there, usually with my beer scout knife, soon with a beer and sausage one I imagine.
 
Will Power said:
It's as though anything GEC puts out now will be seized upon and lapped up uncritically in some quarters; and yes not so long ago buyers could ponder their choices a while; but this has been eclipsed by everything being sold out before you finish your drink:eek: Good for GEC's business but it's often irrationality on the part of buyers. This pattern sounds like a joke gone very far, GEC may well be astonished by it but obviously they've realized it has sales potential. Imagine a person being OK about knives or even interested in more Traditional types, they ask what's your newest knife/what's that for? The delighted owner replies " This is a Bar Tool Knife! One nice blade, a fork for pickled stuff, sausages etc, and a comb for my beard or so I can groom my Hipster customers' beards! All in rust attracting carbon-steel moreover:D" :eek::eek: As Cockneys in London might say " You 'aving a Bubble??" (bubble-bath- laugh)

Thanks, Will
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You can imagine how it came into being. Management having perhaps too many pints in the bar. Someone makes a drunk boast. The bet. The head of the company silently watching pipes up and takes that bet. Watches the public's initial derision with a knowing smile and laughs all the way to the bank when the orders come in. Collects the bet with barely a smirk from awed employees.
 
Can we really say it’s GEC FOMO? I mean there are a lot of GECs that still haven’t sold out recently. You can easily find 62, 92, two blade 23, 86 and 15 still at dealers.

I see this more as a run of 77 barlows. You have collectors, flippers and users all fighting for a chance and people jealously complaining of low numbers and quick sale times.

It will be a big knife with 3 springs. Useless at their called intended use, fork and comb. I can see this more as a bar knife just drop the beer and sausage. Call the fork an olive fork and the comb a strainer and you got something.
 
This and the forum knife will be the only knives I plan to buy this year, so no FOMO, as I “miss out” on most knife releases every year. Also I’ve never sold a knife so I’m not a flipper.

From someone who hopes to buy it and plans to use it, here was my thinking:
I like GEC knives, I like beer and think cap lifters are handy, and I have a mustache that sometimes requires combing. I’ve never had a 35, but people speak highly of them, and I like spear blades, so I figured I would try it out. Sure the knife is weird, but the novelty of it makes me smile.
 
meako said:
I do need to point out that the term "flipperbait" was coined my me.
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Iavanop said:
Increased demand due to flipping is really irritating and makes the buying process extremely difficult and a general pita, but i submit that hearing the incessant complaining about them is equally insufferable, how is that chatter not discussing the buying process take it to whine and cheese please
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Hmmm... You just added to the chatter. :D
And your first post here, well done. :cool::thumbsup:
 
Mitt said:
Can we really say it’s GEC FOMO? I mean there are a lot of GECs that still haven’t sold out recently. You can easily find 62, 92, two blade 23, 86 and 15 still at dealers.

I see this more as a run of 77 barlows. You have collectors, flippers and users all fighting for a chance and people jealously complaining of low numbers and quick sale times.

It will be a big knife with 3 springs. Useless at their called intended use, fork and comb. I can see this more as a bar knife just drop the beer and sausage. Call the fork an olive fork and the comb a strainer and you got something.
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If the comb winds up being for concocting cocktails instead of a beard comb, the fork was ID’d as an olive spear, the name was changed to the “Bartenders Scout” and it was labeled/marketed as such (dumping the beard and sausage references) it would be an absolute winner. Craft cocktail like craft beer is where the $$$ are.
Now I love sausage...but I cut mine with a knife as I stab with a fork, when the fork and knife can’t be used simultaneously what am I supposed to do...pinch the sausage with my fingers and cut? If that’s the plan, then they should have made the third blade a napkin dispenser instead of a beard comb.
 
Markeologist said:
If the comb winds up being for concocting cocktails instead of a beard comb, the fork was ID’d as an olive spear, the name was changed to the “Bartenders Scout” and it was labeled/marketed as such (dumping the beard and sausage references) it would be an absolute winner. Craft cocktail like craft beer is where the $$$ are.
Now I love sausage...but I cut mine with a knife as I stab with a fork, when the fork and knife can’t be used simultaneously what am I supposed to do...pinch the sausage with my fingers and cut? If that’s the plan, then they should have made the third blade a napkin dispenser instead of a beard comb.
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Two B&SK’s in every pocket one as the fork and one as the knife. Also wouldn’t it be something if they actually did slide apart like a hobo knife, no one said they wouldn’t yet and there aren’t enough production pics up yet to know. Of course I do doubt that will happen though.
 
I didn't think this would be so popular. Wrong.... I'll stick to the table scraps. Lots of previous runs out there still available and my list is longer than my wallet is wide. Can't wait to see pictures though!
 
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