I bought my first GEC knife this past weekend, Mr. Little Jack, with very nice stag covers. It has the Northfield tang stamp, UN-X-LD shield, Natural UN-X-LD etch on the blade, product number 252115, serial number 59. Maybe some of you noticed it when it was for sale at Knives Ship for Free:
https://www.knivesshipfree.com/grea...-x-ld-little-jack-natural-stag-serialized-59/
I think it's neat that the original for sale posting is still online. This knife’s story is known to some extent. Made in PA and shipped to KSF. Was this a hot release that someone with his finger on the mouse captured? Only you can tell me that
It was bought by a man in MO, probably St. Louis. This man was a big collector and passed on fairly recently. He has so many knives that one dealer couldn’t buy them all, but my dealer picked out what he wanted, including this knife.
On the way, Little Jack lost his home, the original tube. It’s now in the Tom Sawyer Sheepsfoot Barlow tube, a Charlie SFO w/o paperwork or packing paper. Anybody out there have the correct tube and need a Tom Sawyer tube for your tubeless knife?
It made the rounds of gun shows in the Midwest for a while until it wound up where I live on the table of Pocketknife Jimmy. I fell in love with the stag and good fit and finish, so after years of not finding a GEC that tricked my trigger, I couldn’t resist. It was unused. I passed on a $70 Spyderco Native in 440V because I couldn’t buy both, but stag is stag and handmade is handmade
It does everything a 2” knife with a spearpoint blade can do. This spearpoint is a little obtuse, so as a utility blade, it has some troubles if you need a point (e.g. carve out the seed pod of an apple.) But the 2mm thick blade is nice and thin and cuts well.
So what’s there to like? Well fitted stag, highly polished blade. The stag is ground thin giving a slim knife with lots of hills and valleys. Nice etch. Extremely well-fitted shield. Centered blade. Fine edge that was sharp out of the box. Nice swedge, good long nail nick.
It’s very much like a Queen knife. I have a 1989 Queen-made Winchester stag handled banana trapper that could be its older brother. You can see it’s Queen “DNA” in the fitting of the stag, the dimple in the bolster, the drawing of the swedge, 1095 steel, etc. However, I think that if it was a true Queen product (not a SFO-Winchester), it would have stainless steel.
Like all my new knives, I will carry it as my only knife for a week to see how it performs. Kind of like a girlfriend, you don’t know how things will go until you take your first vacation. So I dropped in the pocket and will carry it as my only knife for a week. Since it’s 1095, it will be oiled every day, cleaned with Flitz and polished with Ren Wax. “Don’t carry no ugly knife”
https://www.knivesshipfree.com/grea...-x-ld-little-jack-natural-stag-serialized-59/
I think it's neat that the original for sale posting is still online. This knife’s story is known to some extent. Made in PA and shipped to KSF. Was this a hot release that someone with his finger on the mouse captured? Only you can tell me that
It was bought by a man in MO, probably St. Louis. This man was a big collector and passed on fairly recently. He has so many knives that one dealer couldn’t buy them all, but my dealer picked out what he wanted, including this knife.
On the way, Little Jack lost his home, the original tube. It’s now in the Tom Sawyer Sheepsfoot Barlow tube, a Charlie SFO w/o paperwork or packing paper. Anybody out there have the correct tube and need a Tom Sawyer tube for your tubeless knife?
It made the rounds of gun shows in the Midwest for a while until it wound up where I live on the table of Pocketknife Jimmy. I fell in love with the stag and good fit and finish, so after years of not finding a GEC that tricked my trigger, I couldn’t resist. It was unused. I passed on a $70 Spyderco Native in 440V because I couldn’t buy both, but stag is stag and handmade is handmade
It does everything a 2” knife with a spearpoint blade can do. This spearpoint is a little obtuse, so as a utility blade, it has some troubles if you need a point (e.g. carve out the seed pod of an apple.) But the 2mm thick blade is nice and thin and cuts well.
So what’s there to like? Well fitted stag, highly polished blade. The stag is ground thin giving a slim knife with lots of hills and valleys. Nice etch. Extremely well-fitted shield. Centered blade. Fine edge that was sharp out of the box. Nice swedge, good long nail nick.
It’s very much like a Queen knife. I have a 1989 Queen-made Winchester stag handled banana trapper that could be its older brother. You can see it’s Queen “DNA” in the fitting of the stag, the dimple in the bolster, the drawing of the swedge, 1095 steel, etc. However, I think that if it was a true Queen product (not a SFO-Winchester), it would have stainless steel.
Like all my new knives, I will carry it as my only knife for a week to see how it performs. Kind of like a girlfriend, you don’t know how things will go until you take your first vacation. So I dropped in the pocket and will carry it as my only knife for a week. Since it’s 1095, it will be oiled every day, cleaned with Flitz and polished with Ren Wax. “Don’t carry no ugly knife”
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but that's life with 1095. Flitz keeps her shiny but the etch has faded as a result. I like the pattern and the stag is sweet. 
). I'm less fond of the verdigris that has formed where some of the light colored stag meets the brass liners (the stuff of 
), but I guess that's just part of the game, too. Enjoy that #25! 
but it seems to happen to others as well