GEC Champlin Eureka Jack??

Good news for those of you that liked this pattern! My sources tell me that GEC will be coming out with another run of the Tidioute 92's in a couple handle materials. But, (wait for it......) they will also be producing a run of Northfield 92's in the usual handle materials including stag. Look for 'em sometime soon!;)
 
Thanks for the info Barry. I was going to get the green bone Tidioute to have a set of 3 but (as nice as the green is) will wait for stag.
 
gunstockjack said:
Good news for those of you that liked this pattern! My sources tell me that GEC will be coming out with another run of the Tidioute 92's in a couple handle materials. But, (wait for it......) they will also be producing a run of Northfield 92's in the usual handle materials including stag. Look for 'em sometime soon!;)
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Like the pattern. I might be up for one of the stag versions, I'd like to see a elk stag version. I could really go for an ebony Northfield version.
 
Hoping they sort out the nail mark access thing. Maybe a wharncliffe secondary instead of the coping.
 
I've not found it a problem at all, you can see from my pic the coping blade has the inside edge stepped and the top of the blade ground at an angle so access isn't a problem.

This pic shows the step, you can't see the grind, I'll take a pic when I get a chance.



Sam
 
Intellectually, I understand what you are saying. But my eye keeps telling me it doesn't look right. I've seen other examples where the nail nick of the master blade is not obscured at all by the secondary blade and I think that's just how the thing should look.
 
ddml said:
Intellectually, I understand what you are saying. But my eye keeps telling me it doesn't look right. I've seen other examples where the nail nick of the master blade is not obscured at all by the secondary blade and I think that's just how the thing should look.
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Gotcha, that makes sense.

I did think about filing the coping blade to echo the main but I quite like the contrast.
 
I will end up with one regardless.

I will hold out to see what the next run will look like though.
 
Just ask your dealer to drop the coping a bit, I have done that by request for several folks.
 
I didn't make a picture of it, but the 92 Tidioute with the crescent nick is pretty well done on my knife. Better than the long pull on the two JBF Champlin versions. I can't get pictures tonight, but I will take some tomorrow if I can work it out. The nail nick on my 92 is easy to get a hold of.

The Champlin knives are very much like the two blade Charlows and the 2 blade spear boy's knive relative to the nail nick on the primary. Here is where my oddball preference would have the coping on the pile side with the nick also on the pile side. But, I am, I admit, an oddball and definitely in the minority on this issue.

Ed J
 
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Mike: Thanks for letting me know you would do that for your customers. That's fantastic.

Ed: I would appreciate those pictures, if it is not too much trouble. I am in agreement, I'd rather have the secondary on the pile side, myself.
 
knifeswapper said:
Just ask your dealer to drop the coping a bit, I have done that by request for several folks.
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That's good that you offer that.

Again, perhaps I'm a bit odd but one of the things I noticed with mine which I like is that GEC have managed to get the spine of both blades to sit parallel with each other.
 
Out of curiosity, why was a coping blade chosen for the secondary? Not that I'm complaining of course...I love coping blades, and I won't carry a multi-blade traditional that doesn't have at least one straight blade, so I'm delighted that they went with a coping secondary. But It seems odd to me that they did. All the eureka jacks I've seen (granted, not many) had pen secondaries.
 
Maybe they read different forums and see us clamoring for straight and bellied blade profiles on a multiblade. I know I am happier with the coping than I would be with a pen.
 
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