GEC buffalo horn, what's the source?

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manowar669

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With all the exotic scale materials out there, it's pretty staggering. Anyway, what's the source of GEC's buffalo horn? What kind of buffalo? Indian water buffalo, or american bison, or what? I'm just curious.
 
I also saw Grizzly bone, but they were sold fast. Pretty cool. Wouldn't mind a conductor in grizzly bone.
 
Of course it's cattle bone, OH MY Heavens can you just imagine if they actually used bone from a grizzly bear! You wouldn't believe all the government puts you thru if you have to put one down in self-defense. :grumpy:

Dave
 
Thats gold-Ive got a grizzly bear bone single blade 73 in the mail now.
Its Ursus Horribilis bone and thats what I'm telling.
I believe the jigging resembles the claw marks of a bear -and not some lamo brown bear but a Grizzly.
 
knowtracks said:
Of course it's cattle bone, OH MY Heavens can you just imagine if they actually used bone from a grizzly bear! You wouldn't believe all the government puts you thru if you have to put one down in self-defense. :grumpy:

Dave
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What about human bone? I mean in THEORY you could right?... It would be pretty macabre tho, like lampshade macabre...

However I would like to see bones from other animals see used in knife handles. Is it the mix of the strengh/density and ready cheap availability of cattle bone that is the factor in using them for knife handles?
 
meako said:
Thats gold-Ive got a grizzly bear bone single blade 73 in the mail now.
Its Ursus Horribilis bone and thats what I'm telling.
I believe the jigging resembles the claw marks of a bear -and not some lamo brown bear but a Grizzly.
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That's where the name "Grizzly Cut Bone" comes from,the jigging pattern.
 
Art_Vandeley said:
What about human bone? I mean in THEORY you could right?... It would be pretty macabre tho, like lampshade macabre...

However I would like to see bones from other animals see used in knife handles. Is it the mix of the strengh/density and ready cheap availability of cattle bone that is the factor in using them for knife handles?
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Great Eastern did in fact make a run of Percheron Bone handled knives for the Blade Show last year. For you city folk,a Percheron is a breed of Workhorse,big suckers too. Make a Clydesdale look like a pup.
 
rma100 said:
Great Eastern did in fact make a run of Percheron Bone handled knives for the Blade Show last year. For you city folk,a Percheron is a breed of Workhorse,big suckers too. Make a Clydesdale look like a pup.
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Kinda like what a Model A Body does to a Lincoln Motor?
 
knowtracks said:
Of course it's cattle bone, OH MY Heavens can you just imagine if they actually used bone from a grizzly bear! You wouldn't believe all the government puts you thru if you have to put one down in self-defense. :grumpy:

Dave
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You can hunt them, can't you? I live and hunt in PA, and you can hunt black bears. I didn't think Grizzlys were protected, especially in Alaska. I just assumed that the bones were purchased from a legally killed animal.
 
manowar669 said:
I've seen Giraffe, and of course Oosic, and mammoth ivory. Not on GEC knives though.
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Mammoth Ivory.........on a GEC
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manowar you need to search the forums more often on GEC..............GEC Ivory love it................
 
rma100 said:
That's where the name "Grizzly Cut Bone" comes from,the jigging pattern.
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Thanks Bob
but when my kids ask me I gonna lie and say its the bone of a killer Grizzly that had to be culled because it ate a couple of schoolkids.
Or could it be the very bear that gobbled up Timothy Treadwell off grizzly man?
cheers
 
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