GEC Cuban Cigar Patterns #53 & #54

Man, so many great patterns and blade combinations on this frame! I've had a couple, but I can't believe I don't have one now.

A friend I met at last year's Rendezvous, Dennis, has some great examples of this frame but I'm not sure of his username here. He's

Railsplitter said:
I have two for the time being. Both #53 Stockmen in 440C.

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Whew, those are incredible. I've got to try to find one of those stainless elk stockmen.
 
This 53 Stockman is from 2008. It is 440C and it is marked as a second. I bought it on the exchange and was told it was smooth Elk. It’s kind of homey looking but for what I paid for it I’m not complaining! :)

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Half/Stop said:
This 53 Stockman is from 2008. It is 440C and it is marked as a second. I bought it on the exchange and was told it was smooth Elk. It’s kind of homey looking but for what I paid for it I’m not complaining! :)

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It has a great vintage look to it. Regardless of what you paid, Ron, I think it is a great looking knife.
 
The Fort said:
It has a great vintage look to it. Regardless of what you paid, Ron, I think it is a great looking knife.
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Your absolutely right. Please don’t take what I said the wrong way. It’s solid as a tank and a great knife that I’m proud to have.
 
Ken, those flat bolstered Presidentials are VERY special, with a great blade combo, too.

Paul T., that's some lovely stag, but I'd be SO tempted to turn that spear into a sheepfoot! ;)
 
Here is my Northwoods Gladiator double end jack made in 2010 by GEC on the 54 Moose pattern. The 3” long (0.09” thick) blades are made with CPM-S60V (aka CPM-440V) stainless steel. While I understand the scale slots are a turn-off for some folks, they eventually grew on me (make blade opening fairly easy). Raul
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Here are some I can contribute. In 2010, GEC made these 4 blade versions for Tuna Valley, in 3 different handle materials. Then in 2012, when the Daniels bought Queen Cutlery, they acquired the rights to use the Tuna Valley name, and also all the unsold TV inventory. So they had all the wood and bone knives modified to have dimpled bolsters, and the stag knives to have hand engraved bolsters (to help hide the serial numbers.) These were then re-relased and sold in 2012 by Queen (even though they were GEC made), and even though the blades retained the original 2010 tang stamp.

I have 5 of the 6 variations. I don't have the redbone with dimpled bolsters, but you can see that one in Johnny's post on Page 2 of this thread.

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The 53s and 54s were a big factor in turning my collecting interests to GEC 2 1/2 years ago. I love the classic, clean look. I have been picking up any natural handle material covers, but am starting to find some love for the "plastic" covers as well. Yellow bone has been very elusive, but that is what makes collecting interesting


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I do love the Castros with all those blades crammed in there, but the recent single blades are amazing as well.

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I want to thank everyone who has participated in this thread. These patterns aren't mentioned often and I thought that people new to GEC or who only became aware of GEC after say 2012 probably had no idea just how many different covers were available from 2007 - 2011. Several of us have quite a few of these knives as just evidenced by 2Dead and wolfeknives. BUT lurking in the background is Jeff (black mamba) who I knew had a ton of these knives with almost all the cover options and selfishly, I wanted to see them so I started this thread. Thank you Jeff and again to everyone.
 
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