GEC Rendezvous 2024 Announced

We all know owner Bill Howard and chief Engineer Randy Bell. However, we should celebrate some of the other long term employees. This is Jimmy. He has worked at GEC since the beginning. He came over with Bill from Queen. In this picture I think he is cutting out the area in which the shield will be set. I like the way he always has his shirt tucked in and wears a nice watch. He comes to the Rendezvous picnic every year.
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Travman said:
We all know owner Bill Howard and chief Engineer Randy Bell. However, we should celebrate some of the other long term employees. This is Jimmy. He has worked at GEC since the beginning. He came over with Bill from Queen. In this picture I think he is cutting out the area in which the shield will be set. I like the way he always has his shirt tucked in and wears a nice watch. He comes to the Rendezvous picnic every year.
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Saw Jimmy at the picnic. Very nice guy. Randy said he will be a participant of the Rendevous next year as he’s retiring soon. Big shoes to fill!
 
Benjamin Carl said:
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Here are my pickups from this past weekend, the older SFAs really stole the show in my opinion. 72 blade was from the 2012 run, and the 15 blade from 2013. As always, it was great spending time with fellow knife enthusiasts.
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Very nice group you got! Was that the only Pocket Carver SFA's from the rendezvous, any other covers?
 
All of the covers on these Rendezvous knives are really nice. The one odd thing is that the "Blue Exotic India Bone" is not actually Exotic India Bone. Wonder if these just got missed along the way, and therefore earned the "S" designation?
 
Rhinofly said:
Very nice group you got! Was that the only Pocket Carver SFA's from the rendezvous, any other covers?
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Thank you! There was a batch of 62s in white, gray, and black “crackle acrylic”, similar to the pearl acrylic used on the 28s in 2015. They did not have the pocket carver shield, but had the same 3 blade configuration.
 
JW225 said:
All of the covers on these Rendezvous knives are really nice. The one odd thing is that the "Blue Exotic India Bone" is not actually Exotic India Bone. Wonder if these just got missed along the way, and therefore earned the "S" designation?
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I had meant to ask about the “Exotic India Bone”, but didn’t have a chance. I am curious as well.
 
Benjamin Carl said:
Thank you! There was a batch of 62s in white, gray, and black “crackle acrylic”, similar to the pearl acrylic used on the 28s in 2015. They did not have the pocket carver shield, but had the same 3 blade configuration.
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Those were F&F. I also believe there were some muslin micarta Tidioute PCs.
 
It was a pleasure seeing everyone. I'm only beginning to put faces to usernames. Jack ( aka travel fail) is maybe the only one I remembered from early
on and I haven't seen him the last couple years.

I'm thankful for Matt Lilly chauffeuring me there and back.
Maybe next year I can get a couple more displays and show a more complete collection of farmers jacks.
 
wlfryjr said:
It was a pleasure seeing everyone. I'm only beginning to put faces to usernames. Jack ( aka travel fail) is maybe the only one I remembered from early
on and I haven't seen him the last couple years.

I'm thankful for Matt Lilly chauffeuring me there and back.
Maybe next year I can get a couple more displays and show a more complete collection of farmers jacks.
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Lyle, I hope you and Jan are doing alright! I made it in 2022 and was looking forward to seeing y'all, but I think you had hurt your back loading the car that year. These days, im weary of competing with the flippers and scalpers, so camping out for knives was a thing id said id do once just to say ive done it. A lot of the faces I remember, have either passed on or moved on from the hobby altogether (family, loss of interest etc).
 
wlfryjr said:
It was a pleasure seeing everyone. I'm only beginning to put faces to usernames. Jack ( aka travel fail) is maybe the only one I remembered from early
on and I haven't seen him the last couple years.

I'm thankful for Matt Lilly chauffeuring me there and back.
Maybe next year I can get a couple more displays and show a more complete collection of farmers jacks.
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Great to see you again this year Lyle. I loved your whaler display. Rick
 
wlfryjr said:
It was a pleasure seeing everyone. I'm only beginning to put faces to usernames. Jack ( aka travel fail) is maybe the only one I remembered from early
on and I haven't seen him the last couple years.

I'm thankful for Matt Lilly chauffeuring me there and back.
Maybe next year I can get a couple more displays and show a more complete collection of farmers jacks.
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Thanks for coming and sharing your Farmers Jacks collection. I know you had a good time. Hopefully you had a chance to talk with Bill about your next round of GEC 38 Farmers Jacks 😉.
 
wlfryjr said:
It was a pleasure seeing everyone. I'm only beginning to put faces to usernames. Jack ( aka travel fail) is maybe the only one I remembered from early
on and I haven't seen him the last couple years.

I'm thankful for Matt Lilly chauffeuring me there and back.
Maybe next year I can get a couple more displays and show a more complete collection of farmers jacks.
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Lyle, I arrived late on Friday, so by the time I realized who you were, we were finishing the Bearcat meeting and heading out to Cross Creek . Wish I would have had some time to check out your Farmer Jacks and chat a bit.

Hopefully next year!
 
Travman said:
Thanks for coming and sharing your Farmers Jacks collection. I know you had a good time. Hopefully you had a chance to talk with Bill about your next round of GEC 38 Farmers Jacks 😉.
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I’ve been patiently waiting for this announcement…
 
The GEC Rendezvous Picnic was held about a mile outside of downtown Titusville at the Drake Well Museum and Park. This is place where the American oil industry got its start when Colonel Edwin Drake struck oil in 1859.
www.drakewell.org

Drake Well Museum and Park

Drake Well Museum and Park uses films, exhibits, oil field machinery, and historic buildings to tell the story of the petroleum industry’s birth in Pennsylvania
www.drakewell.org

The weather was perfect as you can see by the sky in these pictures. I should have gotten a few pictures of the crowd, but unfortunately I didn’t even think about that at the time. The grounds of the museum are very beautiful this time of year
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Oil Creek runs along side the Drake Oil Museum. There were fly fisherman enjoying the perfect day in the distance. In the 1860’s this area would have been completely stripped of vegetation.
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Travman said:
The GEC Rendezvous Picnic was held about a mile outside of downtown Titusville at the Drake Well Museum and Park.

This is place where the American oil industry in 1859 got started by Colonel Edwin Drake.
www.drakewell.org

Drake Well Museum and Park

Drake Well Museum and Park uses films, exhibits, oil field machinery, and historic buildings to tell the story of the petroleum industry’s birth in Pennsylvania
www.drakewell.org

The weather was perfect as you can see by the sky in these pictures. I should have gotten a few pictures of the crowd, but unfortunately I didn’t even think about that at the time. The grounds of the museum are very beautiful this time of year
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Oil Creek runs along side the Drake Oil Museum. There were fly fisherman enjoying the perfect day.
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I've never fly fished but your pictures make me want to start on such a perfect day !
 
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