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Any smooth or jigged (ok, maybe not the raisin looking one in augie's post) as long as they showcase the bone prior to hitting the bolster as in the green circle below, not as in the red.

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To clarify, the Wostenholm is the only one I find very unattractive.
 
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really, if they could jig the handles like the wostenholm IXL, would anyone object? it looks edible, same way my 18-month old likes to test things out with his mouth. course he climbed on the dining table this morning, while i was washing some of his food stuff, so his judgement may not be entirely sound:D seriously it seems to be turning into a common thread that that kind of jigging is at least no.2, if not no.1 for most. excellent,excellent.(Mr.Burns)
thanks, Neal
 
Augie said:
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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Augie's IXL is a winner for me. Love jigging to be very random and fairly deep. Can live without the worm groove.
 
Barret, I totally agree with you on the green. I have that viper and love the green. I have three of the spear 77 jacks bc I love the snap they can have, but I held out on the Tideoute due to that bone.

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I think this tear drop spear punch of Knowtracks is great, reminds me of GEC Brimstone bone which I think is gorgeous and you don;t see it much. It's also irregular and natural appearing and has great burnt orange and amber hues.
 
Augie's IXL is #1 in my book. But im sure whatever is chosen will be great im hoping for random not patterned, something to make each one a little different im just happy were doing a forum knife again thanks all cant wait to watch this all play out
 
Internet back up after down nearly 2 weeks so now I can comment.
I like the random/deep jigging and am cautious about worm groves as they can look so out of place if not artistically done but can also be great, as in the post by TsarBomba of his Boker 494.
I like the Wostenholm IXL by Augie and the Cattaraugus Jack posted by Primble. The Boker 494 is also sweet.
Whatever Charlie & Bill see as doable, I'm sure will be a winner.
 
I am drawn to the random jigging and brown to yellow tones as they have an antique flavor to my mind. Anything that harkens back to a rustic, turn of the century look will enhance the knife in my estimation.
 
Augie said:
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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That's some very fine and effective jigging, nice colour contrasts too. Kind of 'Cat Tree Scratch' jig:D:thumbup:
 
I really like the clean Peach Seed jigging shown on the Schatt and Morgan earlier. Really classic look for an equal end knife.
 
Does anyone have more input?-i had thought this might be a bit more animated, shrug.
 
neal70 said:
Does anyone have more input?-i had thought this might be a bit more animated, shrug.
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Well, it's down to pretty specific questions. We are just discussing what kind of jigged bone handles we will have. If the debate was what kind of handle material then I'm sure there would be more debate (for example, I would be lobbying for micarta or wood), but that part of the conversation is over.

I think that most people are just focused on wanting to make sure the knife happens. I know that is my goal in participating. This year's knife is not my cup of tea, I didn't really get any of the things I was hoping for (but that's okay, last year I got everything I wanted), but I still want the knife. So my goal in participating is not to disturb turds, it is to help carry the knife forward.

I don't know what other animation you were hoping for.

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Will Power,

"That's some very fine and effective jigging, nice color contrasts too. Kind of 'Cat Tree Scratch' jig" That jigging does look very cool and that's a great description. I love the name. You coined it when or if it's ever used in the future!!!
 
I'm another one who is for the deep random jigging, as on the Rope knife and those old Wostenholm knives or something similar to Case's jigging used on their Bose/Case collaborations on the Chestnut bone ones. Don't have a pic, but it's deep and sharp and random.
 
I love the Case Chestnut Bone jigging, I love the color, the depth, I love everything about it. :)
 
r8shell is such a bad influence when it comes to Wharncliffe-bladed jacks. The damage she has done to my wallet... :grumpy: :o

Stand Straight said:
Internet back up after down nearly 2 weeks so now I can comment.
I like the random/deep jigging and am cautious about worm groves as they can look so out of place if not artistically done but can also be great, as in the post by TsarBomba of his Boker 494.
I like the Wostenholm IXL by Augie and the Cattaraugus Jack posted by Primble. The Boker 494 is also sweet.
Whatever Charlie & Bill see as doable, I'm sure will be a winner.
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2 weeks down? I'd have been in a rubber room! :eek:

I think that 494 might be far and away my best example of jigging+worm groove, it ticks all my boxes for both feel and looks, and Boker really did nail the jigging which I believe helps immensely with making the grooves look natural, like they were meant to be there.

This would actually be my first jigged GEC - the only one I have on order presently is a smooth wood knife, and I'll likely end up picking a smooth-handled #77 Barlow when they hit the production schedule later on. I greatly enjoy looking at the examples here, though I do concur that a lot of them -- while looking very nice, a la Jarrett's "Hit" Viper -- do look more like a product of machine instead of man. I think we're finding a pretty good consensus about the jigging for this knife, I hope our enterprising volunteers find it feasible.
 
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Corn Cob, Gator Bone, whatever you want to call it. That's my vote. Pretty unique for a GEC knife.
 
Here's another older GEC with jigging I really like and it fits the theme. In fact, the antique green and this jigging would probably be my choice behind smooth ivory bone...


 
btb01 said:
My concern about going with green would be that GEC's green jigged bone offerings have been sort of hit or miss for me. In fact, I have two, and I've named them "Hit" and "Miss."

Hit:

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Miss:

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Honestly, that #77 is a great knife, but I do think the green is just a bit dull.

Also, please note that I'm not submitting either of those as recommendations for the type of jigging I'd like to see on the forum knife. Just a color comparison on GEC greens. For the jigging, I really am leaning towards this type:
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Yeah I guess I should specify that I when I say green I mean Green. GEC seems to blend alot of brown into their green, especially their earlier stuff. Quite alot of their greens aren't even green at all. I did buy one of those Vipers just because of the color though. That is a truly green knife. As a matter of fact I really like the random jigging and color on my little peanut, It could be deeper jigging and darker in color but it's close to what I envision. For your consideration:
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