I Wish GEC Would...

[whetrock]

I'd be up for some O1, also a big folding hunter, like the Case 6265, would be great.

 

[SurfingSalmon]

To everyone who has mentioned to remake the 2011 Forum Knife...

YES

 

[joeymoey]

I wish GEC would make some more Tidioute and Northfield #48 single blade trappers ~
I wish GEC would use more smooth colored bone ~

 

[jc57]

How old is that ad? Using 1935 as a completely guestimated age, and a standard inflation calculator...

An item that cost $1.15 in 1935 should cost $19.60 today.

That's something to think about...

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Also, I'd like to suggest an interesting knife pattern that to my knowledge has never been done: A trapper frame with a standard-length trapper blade combined with a pen blade.

That ad was from the 1912 Sears catalog. Adjusting for inflation, it would cost $27 and change today.

 

[BITEME]

lanny's clip

 

[Coonskinner]

I'd be up for some O1, also a big folding hunter, like the Case 6265, would be great.

Oh yeah.

 

[Hammer67]

I wish GEC would....stop making so many knives that I desperately want.

 

[pertinux]

Also, I'd like to suggest an interesting knife pattern that to my knowledge has never been done: A trapper frame with a standard-length trapper blade combined with a pen blade.

Sort of like this?

If not, what did you have in mind? (Curious.)

~ P.

 

[Bob W]

No, but close. Lose the clip point and put the trapper blade back in.

And the handle shape, comparing a dogleg to a trapper, isn't quite the same either. (it's darn close though, comparing the pictures)

The most typical trapper pattern has a clip point blade and a trapper blade. Imagine the clip point replaced by a pen.

 

[black mamba]

Bob, what you are calling a trapper blade is usually called a spey blade.

 

[Bob W]

Since it's the stereotypical blade on a trapper knife, I've always called it a trapper blade. How embarrassing.

 

[thawk]

Bob, what you are calling a trapper blade is usually called a spey blade.

Or the long spey if one is to be exact. And Bob, are you thinking long spey and a short pen blade or a long pen equal in length the the spey, in the fashion of a long slim spear blade? I believe you are right, and I have never seen any knife with the spey blade being the master.

 

[rma100]

Like this? 2009 GEC 734209 Scout Trapper in Bocote Wood.

 

[black mamba]

Right on, Bob, they made a whole series of them. These are on the 3-3/4" Scout frame.

 

[Bob W]

Or the long spey if one is to be exact. And Bob, are you thinking long spey and a short pen blade...

Yep, "long spey" blade as master, and a small pen blade for detail work.

Like this? 2009 GEC 734209 Scout Trapper in Bocote Wood.

Cool, that's the right blade combination. I'd have a hard time referring to that frame as a "trapper" though. Trappers are generally, in my modern experience anyway, an in-between type knife - heavier and more bulky than a pocketknife, but more slender and graceful than a folding hunter.

I'm especially drawn to the slim trapper put out recently by Case, Boker, and others.