Finally Found The GEC I Have Been Looking For

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ConBon

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I have been looking for about 6 months for my first GEC. I really liked the #25 with a wharncliffe main and clip secondary blade, but they sold out before I could snatch one up. I started looking at every pattern available, and found that the only ones I really wanted were a Hayn' Helper with a sheepsfoot blade, which I was planning on getting eventually but not first, the #25, and the Calf Roper. I really liked that I could get a Calf Roper cheap but I really dislike the etching on the blade, it just looks cheesy to me. I searched for a serpentine stockman I'd like for months, with no luck. Finally I realized that a cattleman's knife would be excellent, because I like the cigar shape as much as the serpentine shape. Scale material didn't matter too much, I like bone but it costs a lot more; as long as the scales look nice I didn't care if they were bone, micarta, acrylic, or wood. But the blades had to be carbon steel.

Yesterday I finally found what I was looking for: a Northfield UN-XLD #53 Cuban Blue Oyster.





I will be ordering it within the next week.

Cheers,
Connor
 
One of GEC's best patterns! For a big knife they ride surprisingly well in the front pocket, with low-riding blades, nearly sunken joints and round bolsters.
Since the one I carry is also their acrylic, mine in cracked marble acrylic, I'm sure you will love it.

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Nice! Congrats on your new GEC, I've got 3 or them now and couldn't be happier. I carry two of the three most of the time and one of them is always in my right front pocket 24/7. They're outrageously high quality knives and a joy to own and use.

It sounds like you spent a lot of time choosing, so you're really gonna enjoy it!
 
You know Jeff, it's one of their best patterns but they sure don't show you the variety of options you can buy the #53 in on any site I've been on. I see the first 10 knives for sale and they all have the same two blades but with different scales, but go two pages over and you can find the same pattern with four blades. I never knew that GEC made so many different variations in the same pattern until yesterday.

Connor
 
On the same equal end 4-1/8 inch "Cuban" frame they make #53 pattern knives (without half-stops) with 2, 3, and 4 blades, in muskrat, moose, trapper, stockmen and cattleman configurations.
They also make #54 patterns (with half-stops) in 2 and 3 blade knives, in big jack, harness jack and whittler configurations.
 
black mamba said:
On the same equal end 4-1/8 inch "Cuban" frame they make #53 pattern knives (without half-stops) with 2, 3, and 4 blades, in muskrat, moose, trapper, stockmen and cattleman configurations.
They also make #54 patterns (with half-stops) in 2 and 3 blade knives, in big jack, harness jack and whittler configurations.
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Moose? Man, I'd buy that oyster blue in the moose pattern in a heartbeat.

<runs off to try to find one...>
 
Sorry, Brees, they didn't make it. The only pattern besides the stockman in the blue oyster was the #73 Scout.
 
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