A quick request.

CUTS LIKE A KRIS

CUTS LIKE A KRIS

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It is my request that when discussing patterns by number, could members please either provide a picture or the name of a pattern. I have difficulty remembering numbers, even from patterns I love. It is much easier to recall what a Montana Workhorse Whittler is than what a #23 pattern is, at least for me. Plus pictures are always nice. Not to mention trying to figure out a Case SS43180 is ;)

Thanks for the consideration.
Kris
 
I'm with you. I have to go and look at my website more often than I care to admit. :)

Numbers are hard for me to keep together with patterns.
 
CUTS LIKE A KRIS said:
It is much easier to recall what a Montana Workhorse Whittler is than what a #23 pattern is ...
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GREAT point. Amid all the GEC talk here, I often feel like folks are speaking in the private lingo of come club I'm not a member of. :confused:

-- Mark
 
agreed.i just joned a reptile keeper forum and they initialse the names of snakes .mostly i have no idea other tha P is for python.
 
I jump over to the GEC home page pretty often to double check numbers myself, especially some of the newer patterns.
 
mnblade said:
GREAT point. Amid all the GEC talk here, I often feel like folks are speaking in the private lingo of come club I'm not a member of. :confused:

-- Mark
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Haha indeed.

I wouldn't mind more pictures either. (could be stock pictures) With most threads I just copy paste the name of the knife in Google images to see what people are talking about.
 
Also useful because even though the GEC # describes a particular frame/model, there may be multiple versions, with different names.

For example, a #68 can be a White Owl, a Buckaroo, or a Pony Jack...minor point, but useful.
 
Same here... I often have to double-check pattern #s (some I remember, some I tend to forget).

Side note: used to have the same difficulty with modern folders. One "major company" tends to use names and another uses numbers, of the two "big ones." I was forever getting mixed up! ;)
 
I do try when posting pics of my Case knives to use the official model name (e.g., Medium Stockman) as well as the Case pattern number in case someone wants to look one up. One reason I try to (nearly always) do that is that Case has fully six current patterns that they call a "Medium Stockman", and the fact that they come in every handle material (which Case encodes into the pattern #).

But to Kris' point, it took me several months of reading the posts here and flipping back and forth between Google and the manufacturer's web sites before I knew what a lot of the numbers mean and I still don't for lots of them.

But unfortunately for newcomers to ANY field of knowledge, part of the burden on them is to learn the terminology and the lingo. It would be difficult as well as annoying to have to include wording like "hey, have you seen the new GEC 48s? (Great Eastern Cutlery Dogleg Trappers, which are a slim serpentine handle two-bladed Jack knife, 3 7/8" closed, with two equal length blades, or sometimes only a single blade, one of the blades usually a clip point, and the other typically a spey blade, though sometimes a Wharncliffe, offered in both the Tidioute Cutlery and Northfield Cutlery sub-brands in 1095 steel, and occasionally but not recently in the Great Eastern Cutlery brand in 440C stainless steel)"

Even for a newcomer, about the third time they had to read that they would wish you'd leave out the fine print.
 
I try to remember to include some kind of identifier (in smaller font) when posting photos of my knives. I don't often use the model number, but maybe it helps some folks who are interested in learning more about 'em (a place to start looking anyway.)

Like so:

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Case/Tony Bose Coffin Jack in Chestnut Peachseed Jigged Bone and 154CM steel

-Brett
 
It can get tricky with Great Eastern, and other brands too. Take the #89, for example. Some #89s are Whittlers and some are Gamblers. Furthermore GEC has other models also called "Whittler." :)
 
It is tough to get a hang of, but it can be done. Out of common courtesy though, I believe this is a fair request. Would it be too much to have a sticky of certain pattern numbers, if one of us could contribute pattern numbers and names? I picked up a Case book written by one of our members, and it is perplexing to keep track of all the pattern numbers, sometimes used for the same pattern! To top it all off, before the 60's I believe, Case did not stamp pattern numbers on their knives!
 
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