The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
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I saw a fake GEC earlier this year.
It was a crappy gas station jack knife with "Great Eastern Cutlery" PRINTED (not stamped) on the tang.
Obvious fake. I contacted the seller and he promptly took the knife off the market. He claimed he didn't know it was fake.
I don't remember the pattern, but it was a single clip point. There were no identifying marks on the knife except the "Great Eastern Cutlery" print on the tang. If I remember correctly, the etch wasn't even centered or aligned. Now I wish I'd saved a picture of it, but at the time I just wanted it removed before some poor fool bid on it.Wow! I hadn't seen or heard of any until now. That's wild.
What pattern? What did it look like?
Yes, the one I saw was very similar to that, with just the company name etched on the tang. Easily spotted fake.View attachment 1160005
So frustrated with my oversized pics. Anyhow, this was on the bay a few years ago. It was a cheap kickback clip. Blue covers. Can't get the full knife pics to post, sorry. Fakes are out there, but one should be able to tell the difference, right away.
Back in February, this thing was listed as a Great Eastern Cutlery Knife...
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Ha! It's been out there awhile!View attachment 1160005
So frustrated with my oversized pics. Anyhow, this was on the bay a few years ago. It was a cheap kickback clip. Blue covers. Can't get the full knife pics to post, sorry. Fakes are out there, but one should be able to tell the difference, right away.
Just uploaded to Imgur and then pasted code here.How'd you get that to upload? I tried multie times.
Haha! Thats bad!Back in February, this thing was listed as a Great Eastern Cutlery Knife...
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I have ZERO sympathy for the new owner![]()