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One other that I really like is the river jigging. It truly looks like a choppy river.

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Dense, deep jigging similar to the rope knife with coloration in the range of Primble's Catt would be my first pick.
Second would be Bob's Corn Cob jigging. Something unique about the Corn Cob that I do like, but the vintage rope knife look takes it in my book.
Enjoying the progress. Thanks to all involved.
 
Pretty much every opinion I had regarding jigged bone was embodied by that Lick Creek farmer's jack. Outstanding, by far the most "handmade" looking of all.

Charlie's rope knife would probably be a close second, or Gary's Schrade, if we were to shy away from wormgroove for any reason.

How 'bout some worm grooves through the rope knife jigging? :p :D Primble's Catt is pretty much the pinnacle of jigged with wormgroove, if we can even approximate that then I'd be ecstatic.

Old Hunter said:
Not sure the name of this style of jigging, but Case did it well in the early 1970's. OH
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I think that's "peachseed jigging" if I'm not misremembering. I have a very similar pattern on my 2000s Case #75 stockman in amber bone.

neal70 said:
it doesn't sound as though oiled bone is very popular. i'm good either way, but darn it, i had been thinking oiled bone
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Smooth oiled bone would actually be awesome for the kind of knife we're talking about, but early on IIRC Charlie mentioned the handles should be bone and (I believe) jigged. I didn't really consider any of the smooth handle types, mostly to make sure that we didn't muddy the waters in his thread and hopefully found a nice consensus. I will say that there are ideals for both smooth and jigged bone handles, so whichever way the people go in the end I think I can find happiness.

waynorth said:
The thing with GEC jigging is, it changes character each time it is done because it is hand controlled. I suspect the amount of coffee the operator drinks that day may influence the jigging spacing slightly.
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I like a deep, winding worm groove on my grooved knives. Maybe Charlie can get us some early inside information as to the production dates if and when it hits the schedule. We can supply the GEC facilities with espresso blend. Maybe bring a little cafecito up to Pennsylvania. :D

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I like the "doe-track" type of jigging that is shown on some of the earlier pictures of Case knives and on this Robeson -

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I do like the dense jigging of the rope knife.

The examples of GEC worm groove that have been posted do not thrill me at all. I really like natural looking worm grooves, but when it is just grooves that cut across the jigging pattern it looks too artificial for me. I know that all of the jigging is artificial, but not all of it looks artificial, if you know what I mean. As a kid I didn't realize that the jigged handles were jigged, I just thought they were naturally textured, like antler. That sense of naturalness is what I really like.

Of the styles pictured so far, I like the (carved bone?) best. I don't know if that is what it is called, but I like it a lot. The Case knife that Charlie made a gift of for me at the OKCA show is a great example. I love that it looks like the cleaned off surface of the internal portion of a bone where the cortical bone meets the cancellous portion of the marrow cavity. It has a natural appearance that seems right for a traditional knife to me.
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I also like the idea of soup bone handle (which of course is actually the cortical/cancellous interface).
 
abbydaddy said:
Of the styles pictured so far, I like the (carved bone?) best. I don't know if that is what it is called, but I like it a lot. The Case knife that Charlie made a gift of for me at the OKCA show is a great example. I love that it looks like the cleaned off surface of the internal portion of a bone where the cortical bone meets the cancellous portion of the marrow cavity. It has a natural appearance that seems right for a traditional knife to me.
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That's Case's take on "bone stag" or "stag bone", their designation of 6.5 for the handle material being unique to that style. You don't know how envious I am that you've got a bone stag seahorse whittler. :o

It would probably be difficult to make the BF16 knife approximate that, but if it makes it to the table I may have to jump on that bandwagon. :D
 
mqqn's robeson is a wonderful example of Doe's Track Jigging, this and of course Peachseed would be top contenders.
 
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TsarBomba said:
That's Case's take on "bone stag" or "stag bone", their designation of 6.5 for the handle material being unique to that style. You don't know how envious I am that you've got a bone stag seahorse whittler. :o

It would probably be difficult to make the BF16 knife approximate that, but if it makes it to the table I may have to jump on that bandwagon. :D
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Thank you for the clarification. And I absolutely love that knife.:o
 
Both Charlie's Navy knife and Lyle's Lick Creek have some of GEC's best jigging and would be fine with me. The random vintage looking jigging is my favorite.

On a large knife this style of jigging that GEC used on one of their early knives looks good to me,

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This Wostenholm has wonderful jigging, deep, random, probably difficult to do,

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All fantastic jigging. It's so hard to choose just one. I'd be happy with whatever Charlie decides to go with. :thumbup:
 
These pictures belong to Johnny Twoshoes, but I saved them a while back to look around for this knife. GEC did some worm groove jigging on a 73 in 2006. I imagine this would be similar to what they would come up with currently. As mentioned above, it's less "natural looking" and more of an afterthought, but I do still like it.

But for the knife in question with equal end Bolsters, I'd prefer smooth bone to jigged to keep it slim and make the fit to the Bolsters as smooth as butter.



 
Thanks jfowl, I knew I'd seen some GEC worm groove like this ^ but could not find any of those pictures
 
there are many beautiful example pics posted here - I guess I would go with the Catt or Lick jigging...that deep dark green or dark jade green color that was suggested would be a favorite for me...
 
I believe that the early GEC examples that we're seeing here with the wormgroove were actually Cullpepper bone. I could be wrong, but I don't think GEC was doing their own bone at that point in time.
 
the wostenholm that Augie posted looks great, and seems to have no problems fitting tight to the bolsters. Tsarbomba : please don't quote me out of context as that was part of a statement in which i was coming to realize that i would like jigged perhaps a bit better than smooth. no offense is intended, i just don't think it was an accurate representation of my meaning, and what i was really saying. after a night's sleep and some thinking, jigging may simply be the way to go on what is intended to be a classic knife-we love these things(knives) even with broken or worn away blades because of...the jigging. if this particular knife came out that way it would be tremendous. ( no pressure anyone :rolleyes: :D )
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Being a fan of Winterbottom I'm not really going to say anything more than please, no repetitive patterns that look like a machine in China knocked them off over lunch. I can get that on a $10 knife if I want it.

It would be ideal for me if the bone was dyed so that it had depth (ie. it's not the same shade all the way through).
 
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