GEC Cuban Cigar Patterns #53 & #54

Beautiful stag Cubans gentlemen! :thumbsup::thumbsup:

@black mamba Jeff, still hoping you locate those last two! Good hunting my friend.

I'm a 53/54 fan! I have a couple 54s but no 53s. Been looking for a 2 blade opposite ender with a spear main and pen for awhile. Sure would be nice if GEC could make some more of them.:cool: Keeping fingers crossed.

Here's a SFO in mammoth I'm especially happy to have.

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redsparrow said:
Beautiful stag Cubans gentlemen! :thumbsup::thumbsup:

@black mamba Jeff, still hoping you locate those last two! Good hunting my friend.

I'm a 53/54 fan! I have a couple 54s but no 53s. Been looking for a 2 blade opposite ender with a spear main and pen for awhile. Sure would be nice is GEC could make some more of them.:cool: Keeping fingers crossed.

Here's a SFO in mammoth I'm especially happy to have.

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Bare head beauty ....wow ! Great photo too
 
willc said:
View attachment 1426937 I recently got this 541209 in Orange Crush acrylic.
I’ve searched a bit but can’t find any pics with this exact blade configuration.

Is this a Muskrat? Or Moose?
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Closest I can guess is it's an equal end jack. Muskrat has thinner blades (Turkish clip) while a Moose usually has one clip and one spear blade. Nice knife though! :thumbsup::thumbsup:
 
redsparrow said:
Closest I can guess is it's an equal end jack. Muskrat has thinner blades (Turkish clip) while a Moose usually has one clip and one spear blade. Nice knife though! :thumbsup::thumbsup:
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I thought jack knives have blades all on same end?
 
willc said:
I thought jack knives have blades all on same end?
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"Ordinarily, jack knives have all their blades in one end, while knives with blades in both ends are either pen knives or multi-blades. However certain patterns of folders with blades are too large and robust to be called pen knives, while they are too simple, with only two blades to be call multi-blades, these are the double-end jacks." (Levine's 4th p189)
Also heard of them being called opposite end jacks and the previously mentioned equal end jack.
 
redsparrow said:
"Ordinarily, jack knives have all their blades in one end, while knives with blades in both ends are either pen knives or multi-blades. However certain patterns of folders with blades are too large and robust to be called pen knives, while they are too simple, with only two blades to be call multi-blades, these are the double-end jacks." (Levine's 4th p189)
Also heard of them being called opposite end jacks and the previously mentioned equal end jack.
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Thanks for that.

I looked through this entire thread and the GEC site and couldn’t find any pics with the 2 big clip blades.
 
willc said:
View attachment 1426937 I recently got this 541209 in Orange Crush acrylic.
I’ve searched a bit but can’t find any pics with this exact blade configuration.

Is this a Muskrat? Or Moose?
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Awesome knife, and thanks for reviving this thread!
I’m no collector, maybe an Accumulator of Users, but I sure liked revisiting all y’alls 53s and 54s! Amazing variety.

My only knife for this thread is my Big Jack, and it is one I’ll never get rid of. It’s been to eleven states with me, and is always one I take on a trip.View attachment 1427707View attachment 1427709
 
BTW. As this is the 53/54 thread, can someone tell me the difference between a 53 and a 54? I was always under the impression that 54 had half stops and 53s did not have half stops. Well, the knife in the above post is a 531310 and all three blades have half stops, so my theory is out the window.
 
I was curious more and more regarding the cattle and cattle baron runs from back in 2010. The knife above was a 3 blade cattle, but i also have a 4 blade from that run. Guess what, the 4 blade follows #53 pattern assumptions, no half stops. The #53 three blade does have half stops. Can anyone else confirm, from their collection, that the 2010 3 blade cattle knife has half stops? Here are some more documentation pictures. The first, a three vs four. The second captures the serial numbers...


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Rockon75 said:
I was curious more and more regarding the cattle and cattle baron runs from back in 2010. The knife above was a 3 blade cattle, but i also have a 4 blade from that run. Guess what, the 4 blade follows #53 pattern assumptions, no half stops. The #53 three blade does have half stops. Can anyone else confirm, from their collection, that the 2010 3 blade cattle knife has half stops? Here are some more documentation pictures. The first, a three vs four. The second captures the serial numbers...


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While I can't answer your question I wonder if it has to do with the stockman like set up? I believe the 54 are only in two blade or whittler set ups? Also is the an SFO? If so it they might have asked for half stops and then because it is more like a cattleman/stockman GEC labeled it as a 53? Well that's my spit ball guess until someone else chimes in.

On another train of thought those 4 bladed 53 seem like they would be very heavy in the pocket, is that so?
 
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