GEC and Traditional Knife Buttons/Pins

[waverave]

You saw them here first The knives that go with them haven't been made yet.

 

[meako]

Anyone else actually wear badges?

 

[Jolipapa]

 

[waverave]

From Charlie at the OKCA show...

 

[Onearmbladenut]

BADGES ! WE DON'T NEED NO STINKING BADGES !

 

[waverave]

 

[waverave]

 

[waverave]

Has anyone seen a French Kate pin before? If not, curious why GEC would choose to release these now.

http://greateasterncutlery.net/blog/2019/06/27/now-available/

 

[JohnDF]

curious why GEC would choose to release these now.

A pin release?
Perhaps they see an income opportunity in releasing collector pins?

 

[waynorth]

I have my doubts that they would bring the French Kate knives back!! Maybe on a small scale??

 

[waverave]

I have my doubts that they would bring the French Kate knives back!! Maybe on a small scale??

I have my doubts too Charlie that's why this is so curious to me. Maybe they really are just releasing a batch of Frech Kate pins at this point in time for some reason

 

[JohnDF]

Maybe on a small scale??

Hahaha... Now THAT was punny, well done.

 

[waverave]

 

[babykujo]

Pins? I'm thinking a real collector would have to want them all.

 

[Onearmbladenut]

I have my doubts that they would bring the French Kate knives back!! Maybe on a small scale??

I saw a request on French Kate knives on the Great Eastern Cutlery FB Page. GEC answered , "That aint happening !". And someone else requested a GEC#98 Camp knife run. There will be another #98 run , when is the $1,000,000 question.

 

[waynorth]

[QUOTE="Onearmbladenut, post: 19968159, member: 500773" And someone else requested a GEC#98 Camp knife run. There will be another #98 run; when is the $1,000,000 question?[/QUOTE]
I hope Bill returns to SFOs with that knife!!
Here is the Utica I supplied as a reference, back when GEC designed the original!!

 

[SENGVIN]

Does anyone have 97 autumn Jigged bone gold pin?

 

[Johnnythefox]

BADGES ! WE DON'T NEED NO STINKING BADGES !

I wish they made films like that nowadays.

 

[btb01]

A while back I got all my pins (buttons/badges/whatever you want to call them) out, meaning to take a picture. I never got around to the picture, and all the GEC pins ended up sitting on top of their tube caps (rather than back in the tubes). The my 1-year-old happened…

…and it took a bit of work to get all the displaced pins back where they belonged.

Now that they’ve been reorganized (and properly documented, so the same thing doesn’t happen again), I decided to get them out and finally get that photo.

 

[Terdl76]

My collection of GEC buttons…