A GEC Factory Tour!

I'm looking at my GEC's and other trads in a whole new light after watching the videos. It's amazing how many steps are involved in making one of these knives. It makes the $100+ price tags look a lot more reasonable. Thanks for posting the vids.
 
FW JSB said:
I'm looking at my GEC's and other trads in a whole new light after watching the videos. It's amazing how many steps are involved in making one of these knives. It makes the $100+ price tags look a lot more reasonable. Thanks for posting the vids.
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Most certainly this! If that amount of work (albeit streamlined in actual production) goes into a Boy's Knife that costs $65...makes me appreciate the GEC knives I have been lucky enough to accumulate even more.
 
I've only just got a chance to watch this, and was very interested to see how the GEC knives are made. I think I missed part of the first film, and so missed where the blades are ground* and the HT (if that's included). Completely different to Case's operatiion, for example, as you'd expect, but this would be considered a very modern and sophisticated operation in Sheffield (as well it is), and I was struck by how clean everything was! :) Nice to see knife workshops and factories don't have to be filthy. Thank you very much for posting this, it'd be good for GEC to put an edited version up on their site.

* Edit - No, just watched it again, but that doesn't seem to be in there. Shame, as I'd have been interested to see that.
 
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Jack Black said:
I've only just got a chance to watch this, and was very interested to see how the GEC knives are made. I think I missed part of the first film, and so missed where the blades are ground* and the HT (if that's included). Completely different to Case's operatiion, for example, as you'd expect, but this would be considered a very modern and sophisticated operation in Sheffield (as well it is), and I was struck by how clean everything was! :) Nice to see knife workshops and factories don't have to be filthy. Thank you very much for posting this, it'd be good for GEC to put an edited version up on their site.

* Edit - No, just watched it again, but that doesn't seem to be in there. Shame, as I'd have been interested to see that.
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I believe it said they send them out for HT, so all of that is off-site.
 
Thanks for the info guys, personally I think it makes a lot of sense to send the blades for specialist HT. They're definitely doing something right, the GEC steel is great IMO :)

What about the grinding though. I saw the blades being blanked out in the first film, and the final edge being put on in the 3rd film, but when were they ground, did I miss that?
 
The grinding process is definitely in one of the three parts. They showed as a three or four step process. Did you see all three parts of the video?
Dan
 
Parke1 said:
The grinding process is definitely in one of the three parts. They showed as a three or four step process. Did you see all three parts of the video?
Dan
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Yeah, I watched 1 and 3 twice. Maybe I'm losing what little sense I once had, I called Charlie 'Gary' the other day! :o
 
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