GEC and Do You Really Like Them?

I guess I am coming into this thread a little late. I live in western PA, so my traditional knives are basically all Case, Queen, and GEC. I grew up with Case and Queen, and my granddad was a knife collector with a lot of those brands. When I first got back into knives as an adult, I turned up my nose at the classics I grew up with. Then I paid a visit to the Case visitor center and figured out that it was only an hour or so away. My childhood interest in those Case knives came crashing back, and I also started buying Queen and S&M. I was disappointed in the lack of consistent quality I found. Lots of gaps, lazy springs, bolsters that were unevenly shaped from side to side, blades that didn't open 180 degrees etc. I went to the factory store and I would check out 3-4 examples of each Case I wanted and buy the best one.

Then along came Great Eastern, and they are also only an hour away. The first time I held one of the knives with the cigar frame I was hooked. Every one that I have bought was consistently nice. Even those with minor f&f issues were nicer than a hand picked Case. I have never been disappointed with a GEC. I have enjoyed each one thoroughly. As far as selling them, the knives must come and go. New ones in, old ones out. Heck, I would try a Muskrat pattern that was just two fish scalers, as long as they put it in that 53 Cigar frame.
 
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