GEC Serial #s, are they a big deal?

5K Qs said:
As is often the case, I agree with Will - serial numbers on knives, GEC or otherwise, don't usually mean much to me.
BUT, I won a Schrade-Wostenholm I*XL stag canoe in a cchu518 GAW, and when the prize knife arrived, I discovered that it had a serial number that was the DDMM form of my birthday! That was a happy coincidence for me, and I like the knife even more because of it. :cool:
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- GT
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Thanks GT :thumbup:

But dayummm I'm impressed :D I mean you being, wait a minute maths was not my forte in school, oh yeah, 104 years old and still having to work and being active and all? :confused: You born in the year the Titanic went down?? Or how come you have 19 months in that mad calendar of yours in America?? Makes us all younger what? Nice:D Declaration of Difference:thumbup:

Jfowl I've HEARD that GEC keeps all the 1s but clearly it's a myth since you have an example! Very interesting that.....

Regards, Will
 
Will Power said:
Thanks GT :thumbup:

But dayummm I'm impressed :D I mean you being, wait a minute maths was not my forte in school, oh yeah, 104 years old and still having to work and being active and all? :confused: You born in the year the Titanic went down?? Or how come you have 19 months in that mad calendar of yours in America?? Makes us all younger what? Nice:D Declaration of Difference:thumbup:

Jfowl I've HEARD that GEC keeps all the 1s but clearly it's a myth since you have an example! Very interesting that.....

Regards, Will
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:D:D:D Now you're making ME confused, Will! :confused:
Doesn't Finland have any of the infernal electronic devices for which you have to set the time, the date, the temperature, and your heart rate before the device functions properly? Those are always asking me for date in MMDDYYYY format or DDMMYYYY format (I thought this was the standard outside of US).

- GT
 
btb01 said:
Like most of you who've posted so far, I don't really care one way or the other about the serial numbers on GEC. I only own two, a spear point natural stag #25 and a sheepsfoot from the same run. They do happen to be the same serial number (both number 50), which I thought was kind of cool, although I didn't buy them for that reason. I got the spear point first, and actually missed out on the one with what I thought was the best looking stag and had to go with no. 50, which was my second favorite of those available. Then when the sheepsfoot was released, no. 50 happened to be the best looking one I saw, so I got it.

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As for whether or not you should use a serialized GEC, I say use it. I carry/use that spear point #25 often. In fact, I might just drop it in my pocket today! :D
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Beautiful knives!! I've been on a stag buying kick lately although I've always been drawn to stag. So much more character to me.


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Very cool to have the only one in that handle Coastiekevink. Im sure that makes yours rather collectable :D
 
GT Just teasing you!:D Europe follows the DMY pattern, but I'm ultra Old School in that I write the date in Arabic and Roman as they used to a century back. . Thus you can't confuse the day with the month. My birthday is 10th March so 10.III.16 whereas the US system would have it as 3.10.16 which is October to us! Only 12 month in a year I-XII. But, If we think of number and dates, after the French Revolution they changed the weeks, calendar, years and even hours having a decimal system for that too, cool...:eek::cool:

Whatever, your '1912' is a very nice knife to have, great bone and a good set of numbers too

Regards, Will
 
Jfowl31 said:
Can anyone attest to the idea that GEC keeps serial number 1? I have a 2007 model 73 with serial number 1 and while I did think that was neat and everything, I didn't think that much of it. I was more excited that it is 1 of 7 in the particular cover set.
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Could you post a picture of the serialized bolster for us? GEC are supposed to keep the serial number 1s, and this is the first I've heard of one "getting out."
 
GEC was still an infant company in 2007. I suppose it's possible that they didn't start keeping serial number 1's until later.
 
I just gotta say, I'm not a fan of the serialized knives at all. IMHO, they ugly up one bolster. In addition, they only serve to give me pause in using my knives for their intended hard use purposes.

And if they have one if those limited blade etches too, they make my blood boil, as I'm generally not a fan of etches either; the Beer Scout Knife possibly being the only exception.
 
Unless you collect specific numbers I think it just mars the knife as I said above. That being said, there must be something to it. GEC has two identical Blue Corduroy Acrylic #62's on their site and the serialized one costs $8.72 more. Go figure.

Alan
 
Personally, I don't mind the serial numbers so much. It does, however, make more sense to me to have them on knives with distinctly different scale variations (stag, etc) rather than 25 knives which appear completely identical.
 
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