GEC Rendezvous 2025

Pics of my haul from last weekend. I had a great time hanging out with the people up there.

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sbh06 said:
Thank you, it was my first time there, can’t say I disagree with you.

Thank you, I thoroughly enjoyed getting to meet you and Mrs. Augie there.
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yeah, first time for a lot of folks i know recently! definitely was quite a bunch of folks id have like to meet and shake their hands especially from bladeforums as some of em like LastRodeo LastRodeo go back to my early days on the porch
 
I dont get out there to titusville much these days, but here is a 15 sfa from rendezvous past! All these post got me a bit nostalgic. Courtesy of a trade with Gec's own Randy Bell. Next to it is a modified saddle brown spey that belonged to BigBiscuit BigBiscuit a friend of ours who has since passed on. He wouldve been to that rendezvous in 2018 if his health had permitted it. Cant keep em mint forever, wheres the fun in that. What a wonderful surprise it has a spring more typical of the classic 15s and not akin to its run of 2021.😍

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Augie said:
Couple 86's FSA's from the Rendezvous, the Factory Special Experiment in pine is sorta neat, there is history of plain wood simple cheap jacks being done and I've taken pictures of the 86 with one, they are not common.
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Very attractive knives in wood, John!! Pine seems kinda soft for a knife handle!! Do you, or does anyone know if that wood was treated??
Or does it stand the "test" on its own???
 
waynorth said:
Very attractive knives in wood, John!! Pine seems kinda soft for a knife handle!! Do you, or does anyone know if that wood was treated??
Or does it stand the "test" on its own???
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Thanks Charlie, yes pine is pretty soft, I don't know if it has been treated. Someone said at the Rendezvous that it was leftover pine from the Rendezvous whaler several years ago, I don't know if that is true or not. That wood came from floorboards of the Plymouth Cordage factory. I would imagine 100 plus year old pine is harder than new pine.


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Augie said:
Thanks Charlie, yes pine is pretty soft, I don't know if it has been treated. Someone said at the Rendezvous that it was leftover pine from the Rendezvous whaler several years ago, I don't know if that is true or not. That wood came from floorboards of the Plymouth Cordage factory. I would imagine 100 plus year old pine is harder than new pine.


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talk about the old adage, they just dont make em like that no more
 
Augie said:
Thanks Charlie, yes pine is pretty soft, I don't know if it has been treated. Someone said at the Rendezvous that it was leftover pine from the Rendezvous whaler several years ago, I don't know if that is true or not. That wood came from floorboards of the Plymouth Cordage factory. I would imagine 100 plus year old pine is harder than new pine.
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Thanks for reaching back for those references, John!!
If that wood was used for flooring, it certainly must have some endurance!!
 
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