GEC 25s - Gots 'em?

How are the pulls (spring tension) on the primary and secondary blades for the recent run of little jacks? Thinking about picking up one as long as they're not bear traps! Thx.

-Greg
 
pertinux said:
Thanks! I looked out one day in spring and saw the yellow flowers, immediately thought of my blue-handled knife, and call the resulting picture "Sweden." :) ...Sorry if I've introduced a hard-to-impossible-to-find Must Have. I know what that's like!



Thanks! I certainly do. :)

Perhaps of interest only to me, but some minutiae:

1) Dating. The Prototype's certificate is dated 11/25/2008, the "regular run" knife's is 11/18/2008-- a week earlier. I would have guessed it would be the other way around.

Either GEC didn't/doesn't finalize Prototype paperwork until after the regular run is produced, or there be marketing gimmickry afoot in the production and valuation of "prototypes."
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2) The secondary pen blades on both blue barlows sport thinner, shallower nail nicks than is present on any other of the secondary pens on my #25s, regardless of whether they are located in front of the main blade or behind.

Quick 'n dirty pictures to try to show this:

Pen-behind-main on left/upper, Blue's front pen on the right/lower
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Blue's pen between two other pen-in-front blades:
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It's a subtle difference, but both pen blades are notably stiff, and every bit of purchase helps. More purchase would help.

I'd hoped the newer, "regular" Blue's pen blade-- assumed to be post-Prototype when ordered-- would have a deeper nail nick, but both Blues sport the same slight, shallow one.

I've cleaned Proto's joints and worked the secondary blade to make it easier open, but still might ask someone at GEC to ease it some. I haven't decided about the other, yet. I've never had a duplicate before. :o

~ P.
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Open that stiff blade about 1000 times more, and it will be nice and soft.
 
I love this thread so I'll add to it...

Here's my Little Jack in Autumn Oak Jigged Bone....




I just ordered one of those Bulldog EZ open Sheepfoot Jacks in smooth red bone.
 
bdev said:
Here's my Little Jack in Autumn Oak Jigged Bone....
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Sweet! The colors are more vibrant than I would have supposed, based on stock photographs. Thanks for adding your pictures here. I look forward to seeing the Bulldog, too. :thumbup:

bwperdue said:
I got this little booger yesterday:
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Well... it is green. :p How do you like it, especially as compared to a single-blade Spear?

I've been carrying this one often lately. It was my first #25, and remains the "comfort food" of the bunch:
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Although this one is a close second along those same lines:
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Hunh, these were my first two #25s. Maybe I shoulda stopped there...?







(Nah. :))

~ P.
 
I much prefer this one to the single-blade Northwoods that I have. The second blade makes it much more useful to me. Plus, I have realized that in general, I tend to prefer endcaps rather than bare ends. Although, the ebony one you posted above would definitely make the "keeper" cut if I should ever find one.
 
My #25 has really grown on me. I'm kicking myself for missing the most of the barlow versions.
 
I really like the 25's but wish they were 1/4" longer. 3 1/4" would have been perfect. Not too big.....not too small.
I found GEC too late to grab a few Barlows and EZ Opens but did buy a Northwoods Bullet Jack.

 
Smithhammer said:
My #25 has really grown on me. I'm kicking myself for missing the most of the barlow versions.
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I almost missed them, and feel fortunate to have caught the tail end of the last tiger that ran through. 2011, maybe? I wonder if GEC might return to them in some form once they've exhausted their #15 bender? Not that the #15s don't represent some of the finest knives I've seen, ever.

bdev said:
I really like the 25's but wish they were 1/4" longer. 3 1/4" would have been perfect. Not too big.....not too small.
I found GEC too late to grab a few Barlows and EZ Opens but did buy a Northwoods Bullet Jack.

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Derrick Bohn and GEC sure did a great job of freshening up a #25 for their Northwoods iteration. :thumbup:

As for the bolded part above, my version is, "I really like the #15s but wish they were 1/4" shorter. 3 1/4" would have been perfect."

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Maybe we'll eventually have all three-- 3" #25s, 3.5" #15s, and 3.25" #35s (#05s? #45s?).

~ P.
 
(Belated) Happy First Birthday to your fine thread, Sarah!
#25s are wonderful examples of "a lot of knife in a WLST package"!!

CC
 
waynorth said:
(Belated) Happy First Birthday to your fine thread, Sarah!
#25s are wonderful examples of "a lot of knife in a WLST package"!!

CC
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Thanks, Charlie! And regarding my previous comment, it's not that I don't think the #15s aren't grand as-is; they truly are. It's just that, given the choice, I'd shrink down the #15s before giving up the #25s to a larger size. Perish the thought!

Campbellclanman said:
hey there ~P
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Hiya, Duncan! :) Beautiful pictures of a stunner of a #25. :thumbup:

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~ P.
 
My own little modest collection of WLST™.

Wooden Clip-points



Stag and Bone


and the very elusive drop-points



No spears or Wharncliffes in sight. :D
 
pipedreams308 said:
That stag drop-point is a beauty!
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Actually there are two of them in the pic. The top one seems to have lost the burnt part of its burnt stag on one side. The other side looks just as good as the middle one.

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Mighty fine collection of #25's you have there, Mink.

But what, no spears or wharncliffes? :D
 
Mink said:
My own little modest collection of WLST™.
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Very nice selection!

Seeing your double-bladed wooden clip point knives together reminds me again of how much I like that configuration, the secondary pen behind the main.

Sweet primitive bone, here, and so different from the rather bland example that I have (recently seen representing "white" in "The Red, White, and Blue"):
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and the very elusive drop-points
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:thumbup: I need to find me a horseshoe nail....

~ P.
 
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Thanks P, could not have put these together without tracking down and harrassing many of the fine folks here. :D

Only the orange jigged drop-point was acquired elsewhere.
 
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