I love GECs but...

Modoc ED said:
So Trand, since you are now a week ahead, should I book a flight to come visit you next Friday for the following Friday? Don't be waving that knife around too much or you may find yourself closer to your expiration date.

Like you, I don't think a dull or uneven blade is a good enough reason to send a knife back to a dealer/manufacture but then again that's just my ,02¢ .
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Sorry Ed, I just had to send it back. I couldn't let something like this slide :grumpy:. Unfortunately, on my way to the post office :yawn:, I was jumped by a group of mean looking kids :eek: who challenged me to a game of Mubleypeg:eek::eek:. I was surrounded and had no choice... I pulled out the GEC... and as the knife flew towards the ground, it sliced another hole... and down it went... along with any chance of proving how sharp GECs can come out of the tube :(. I should have remembered what happened last time but like I said, those were some mean looking kids!!

I wasn't going to mention this part as I was too embarrassed... I was knifeless for a whole 17 minutes until I made it home :o. Good thing my lucky anti-ghost/ninja/tiger rock kept all the ghost/ninja/tigers at bay. It could have gotten messy :cool:.

Totally true story also. ;p
 
knarfeng said:
I haven't seen any GEC knives with an uneven bevel.

I dunno. I don't believe I've ever bought a new vehicle, but I'm not certain they all come with a full tank of gas. A dull blade is easily rectified, as is a less than full gas tank.
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Exactly.

In less than an hour I sharpened 3 new GEC's and one new Case peanut. The only production knives I haven't had to sharpen to my likeness were made by Buck.

All knives will dull and need sharpening if they are used.............and you have to fill your gas tank if you drive your car.
 
I Consider sharpening as part of getting to know my knives, I do touch ups when I haven't used it since the last touch up :D
I have about 15 GECs, wait, 16 ( love the exchange)))) and so far all have come reasonably sharp with great cleanly ground edges. I'll take a butter knife dull edge WAY before a sunken pin :eek: We all have our "thing" :D

Best regards

Robin
 
I like knives arriving dull. Mind, it took me a while to reach that position on things :)

But now, if I am going to keep a knife and put it in the rotation, I just sharpen it like I want and give it a scrub in the sink with a bit of scotchbrite.

Mine then :)
 
Pipeman said:
I Consider sharpening as part of getting to know my knives, I do touch ups when I haven't used it since the last touch up :D
I have about 15 GECs, wait, 16 ( love the exchange)))) and so far all have come reasonably sharp with great cleanly ground edges. I'll take a butter knife dull edge WAY before a sunken pin :eek: We all have our "thing" :D

Best regards

Robin
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But I like the flowers you put in the sunken pin holes :eek: It gives the knife character :eek: :D
 
coffeecup said:
Logically, if there were any factual basis for that claim, it would have been mentioned--or even bragged upon--in advertisements. Instead, when we look at old ads and catalogs, what we see is claims made for sharpness and usability out of the box. In examining over 3,000 ads from the 1875-1980 time period, I have yet to see even one stating that the edges were left unsharpened.
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To me, that claim was nothing more than a fanboy creation to defend and justify a dull blade. I thought it was so silly when I read it (nowhere else but here on BF) I didn't even respond.

I figured next would be the claim that the reason the blades were difficult to open was because so many like to clean their knives and work the blades with oil for a few hours before they feel they have become one with it. Followed by the other guys that don't want their scales polished, jigged or even colored as that is part of their "process" as well.

I can understand getting a dull knife and we all know why that happens. But to say it was done on purpose when 99% of the folks I know either hate sharpening or can't do it correctly was just nutso.

I can just hear them now, "hey you should see my new GEC... it so dull I thought it was a spoon!", followed by, "lucky devil!".

Robert
 
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pmew said:
Having a good moan is great isn't it, it's cathartic :)
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LOL! Yes, and this one is always a surprisingly hot topic! :D Personally, I think GEC should send out their blades sharp, but I don't mind spending a few minutes touching up their great 1095, (their factory sharpness is getting better if personal experience is anything to go by), so long as I'm not being told that every one of their knives leaves the factory sharp, when we all know that isn't the case :thumbup:
 
I like the way GEC sends em out the way they do. Leaves less room for factory error.
But I also have a sharpening addiction.
My girlfriend says so.
 
How ridiculous is it though that a knife company ships a knife dull. That's nuts.
 
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