GEC 86’s for 2023

Fixall said:
Another one from Mike! :D

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Is it as easy to open as it looks?
 
Travman said:
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I bought this one from the store during my visit a few weeks ago. I was deciding between this one and another with similar grain. Bill Howard was in the store with us. He picked this one up and said this was his kind of knife. He said he liked a nice simple, straightforward knife. I was actually going to pick the other example, but instead picked this one because Bill had opened and closed it and handed it to me.
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waynorth said:
Good choice!!! :cool:

I got one from the store also, with a little help from a friend!!View attachment 2288426
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Now, hold on just a minute - was that the other one that Travman Travman was considering?! Did you enlist Mr. Howard in some nefarious retail decision-making plot??! 🤣
 
Well, I ended up getting all of the run including both Waynorth's. I didn't get the River Jack as it didn't appeal to me. I got production numbers on these from the source, and it looks like maybe they were so hard to score. they really are pretty low in comparison with patterns of late. Here's what I found out. We know the Waynorth's were 250 each with a few extras on on the ebony due to extra parts. Red linen harness jack's... clip and sheep foot- 325 of each. Marrow Bone-233. Now here's one that surprised me, Yellow Rose- 175 initial run. They said they did a few more of them last week, but not very many at all and didn't have an exact count. You may see a small amount of them dropping over the next week.

So there you have it. A pretty small run on some great knives.
 
Yeah I know a lot of folks were sour about the marrow bone… IMO the difficulty makes sense because this is a hard handle material to source, so production numbers were bound to be low. And it’s historically an insanely sought-after and coveted GEC material. So, if each dealer only gets a handful, and of those, let’s be honest, a few at least are going to go to early reserves/long time great customers/etc, there may well only be a half dozen if that for public “drop.” (I hate that term. So internet-y, and totally not what traditional knives should be about in my opinion.) If at the time of public offering there are hundreds of customers eagerly refreshing, then only a lucky handful of buyers with the most free time, fastest internet connection, and most efficient shopping bot setup, will even see the product in stock let alone be able to land one.

I didn’t even try, I’m just as happy admiring them from afar :)
 
stagmeister said:
Well, I ended up getting all of the run including both Waynorth's. I didn't get the River Jack as it didn't appeal to me. I got production numbers on these from the source, and it looks like maybe they were so hard to score. they really are pretty low in comparison with patterns of late. Here's what I found out. We know the Waynorth's were 250 each with a few extras on on the ebony due to extra parts. Red linen harness jack's... clip and sheep foot- 325 of each. Marrow Bone-233. Now here's one that surprised me, Yellow Rose- 175 initial run. They said they did a few more of them last week, but not very many at all and didn't have an exact count. You may see a small amount of them dropping over the next week.

So there you have it. A pretty small run on some great knives.
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Did you happen to catch the numbers of the Rivertown Jacks? I regret not going for one, but I imagine the numbers were relatively large.

And also thanks for the intel, very interesting!
 
stagmeister said:
Well, I ended up getting all of the run including both Waynorth's. I didn't get the River Jack as it didn't appeal to me. I got production numbers on these from the source, and it looks like maybe they were so hard to score. they really are pretty low in comparison with patterns of late. Here's what I found out. We know the Waynorth's were 250 each with a few extras on on the ebony due to extra parts. Red linen harness jack's... clip and sheep foot- 325 of each. Marrow Bone-233. Now here's one that surprised me, Yellow Rose- 175 initial run. They said they did a few more of them last week, but not very many at all and didn't have an exact count. You may see a small amount of them dropping over the next week.

So there you have it. A pretty small run on some great knives.
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Did they mention the Bocote River Town versions?
 
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Kiteman72 said:
Did you happen to catch the numbers of the Rivertown Jacks? I regret not going for one, but I imagine the numbers were relatively large.

And also thanks for the intel, very interesting!
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I didn't ask on the Rivertown Jack's as I didn't get that one. I will get that one for you guys tomorrow as I need to follow up on something with them anyhow. It may be lower than expected as they ran short for their store knives.
 
Alex.Y. said:
Aren't those just third (or further) cut bones? I never thought they can be hard to source...
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When the 2021 BF knife was in the works it was suggested that soup bone would be really cool. Unfortunately that got shut down because our Barlow was a big enough order that they’d have great difficulty or impossibility sourcing enough suitable bone for that many… so I had the distinct impression that it was only something we might see on relatively small runs. And these new 86 barlows do not disappoint. They’re very nice knives.
 
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