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What is the difference between an 53 and a 54?#68 x #35
I think the #54 is the next biggest equal-end? Unfortunately I don't have one.
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According to GEC's website, 1/8th of an inch.What is the difference between an 53 and a 54?
I guess I could have looked it up. Didn’t know if one had half stops and one was cam tang. So confusingAccording to GEC's website, 1/8th of an inch.![]()
Paul, I’m pretty sure 54 have half stop and 53 do not. Or at least that’s my experience with the few I have.I guess I could have looked it up. Didn’t know if one had half stops and one was cam tang. So confusing. Thanks my friend.
Thanks for the knowledge, Shawn. They are a little too big for my liking but it’s good to know these things.Paul, I’m pretty sure 54 have half stop and 53 do not. Or at least that’s my experience with the few I have.
That olive green is a 77 is that correct, I can't find it the 77 collection any where.Here are a couple different 86 / 77 comparisons with the blades open.
Spearpoint jacks:
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I really like the forum knife, what year was that from?35 Forum Knife 16 and 68 White Owl from '11. Both equal End, single-spring.
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2016,some historians consider it the best gec knife ever made,I have been on the hunt for one from day one,all I can say is people are not talking.a code of silence.I really like the forum knife, what year was that from?
That olive green is a 77 is that correct, I can't find it the 77 collection any where.
Ya I have been told that not all the 77's are on the gec page772215 Yankee Jack, Pine Green Jigged Bone
Ya I have been told that not all the 77's are on the gec page
Sheepfoot's's86, 15, and 14 was a comparison I wanted to see soon after finding out about GEC. Here are a few of mine side by side:
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And then I figured that since I already had those out, I was also interested in seeing a 49 next to a 14 - and for fun, I added an 05 Keychain Knife. FUN! And that's how you wind up with a flock of sheepsfoots? sheepfeet? sheepsfeets? anyhow...
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