Let's see your Elephant Toenails!

[Wavester]

I wish I could post mine, but unfortunately I do not have any.

But I would love to see what other forum members have

Even though a Starfish is different, post some of those as well if you wish!

 

[Wavester]

Wow - not one post? Doesn't anyone like the Elephant Toe Nail styled knife? Well I finally have one

[video=youtube;PE-oRrIoVZU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE-oRrIoVZU[/video]

I wish I could post mine, but unfortunately I do not have any.

But I would love to see what other forum members have

Even though a Starfish is different, post some of those as well if you wish!

 

[Quiet]

You probably would have gotten better traction on this in the Traditional forum. I myself had no idea what an "Elephant Toenail" was until you posted up that vid!!!

 

[grownstar]

You probably would have gotten better traction on this in the Traditional forum. I myself had no idea what an "Elephant Toenail" was until you posted up that vid!!!

I was totally thinking that this thread was gonna get moved to the Cove

 

[afishhunter]

I have the large Rough Rider sunfish, can't get pictures to post though.
It was my EDC knife for about a year, along with a Uncle Henry LB7.
Carrying a Buck 389 canoe and 110 most days, now.

 

[pmew]

I was totally thinking that this thread was gonna get moved to the Cove

LOL I can see why you might think that ...

I don't own any. I have just about every other pattern but nothing about the ET has ever interested me. I would be interested to see if anyone could change that by posting pics of their favourites...

Paul

 

[Pipeman]

Here is GECs take on the early Platts swell centre toenail. Quite the massive knife.

Best regards

Robin

 

[BigBiscuit]

Here is GECs take on the early Platts swell centre toenail. Quite the massive knife.

Best regards

Robin

It's hard to appreciate the sheer size of these until you actually hold it in your hand. Massive.

 

[Bigfattyt]

I love mine. All steel.


I deeply regret not buying one of the Whalers from GEC back when I still had money to spend on more knives. I bought a handful of other traditionals from other makers and would take that decision back, if I could.

I have not bought a knife in a few years now.

 

[Hammer67]

This GEC #36 is the only one I currently own, but it has quickly become one of my favorites:

It's 4-1/4", but being a single blade, it's quite slim and I don't mind it as a pocket carry in a slip sheath at all. I tend to like larger slipjoints, and I've become pretty fond of this pattern. I'll probably add a few more to the herd when the right ones come along...

 

[Pipeman]

It's hard to appreciate the sheer size of these until you actually hold it in your hand. Massive.

Here's a comparison pic with a Pemberton for scale. You can process firewood with these big boys .
Regards

Robin

 

[bozack]

My only one. In Snake wood.

 

[Wavester]

Gorgeous

Here is GECs take on the early Platts swell centre toenail. Quite the massive knife.

Best regards

Robin

 

[meako]

The starfish and the camels toenail are stylings of knife as yet both undiscovered by me. This is my sunfish -carved pumpkin jigged bone. Its an awesome knife and just the kind of thing I would take with me to a small remote island somewhere say for instance the Eastern Atlantic just off the coast of Scotland perhaps. I think it would be a great boon and conversation piece.

 

[Jenner 515]

This is my sunfish -carved pumpkin jigged bone. Its an awesome knife and just the kind of thing I would take with me to a small remote island somewhere say for instance the Eastern Atlantic just off the coast of Scotland perhaps. I think it would be a great boon and conversation piece.

I have one of these left (gifted the other) - same scales and everything - This ^ is about the best description of this pattern I've ever read.

 

[pertinux]

From previous thread(s) [aka, time for me to take new pictures.... ]:

"Any GEC #36 (Sunfish in general) fans or users ?"

And how!

It's funny how a pattern can be eminently resistible until, all o' a sudden, it's on the Need Want list.

I was happily following along in a recent Elephant's Toenail thread when this happened:

So, now I want a Sunfish.

Shoot, I even thought a nick/pull combination was too weird looking, until I saw this old 'un:

There really is no accounting for taste, nor the vagaries thereof.

With an assist from an alert purveyor, I brought in this beauty in early October, and it's ridden along in my back pocket almost every day since:

The stamped blade is icing on the formerly-deemed-too-weird, suddenly-deemed-non-negotiable nick-and-long-pull-combination cake (got that?).

Bigfattyt's pictures and thoughts (in yet another thread, Favorite Elephant Toenail/Sunfish) were helpful understanding the relative size of this knife.

I should add, that the Steel Toenail is not at all too big for pocket carry. Great shape, and the secondary blade really sits low in the frame. Not only that, but the secondary blade is a lovely thin slicer!

Here are a few of my own:

#26, #36, #26 (sleeveboard, sunfish, sleeveboard, but I calls this "swimming with the fishies" all the same).

And, no surprise but continually amusing, the #36 is slimmer at its tapered bolster than a bareheaded #25:

As noted by others, the #36 makes its presence known (it's by no means a small knife), but I find it fun to pocket. Its proportions (described by some as "cartoonish," in a happy way) make me smile, and its thin blades make it a right fine slicer.

Action, etc.: this #36 one of two slipjoints I own that is harder to close than to open. Both opening and closing were a real bear at first; over time the action has smoothed out nicely, but it still takes more leverage to move off of "open" than most any other knife in my selection. It's a feature, not a bug. An additional boon of the double nick/pull is that the nick is placed farther forward than it might be otherwise, leading to increased leverage.

Showing signs of use (November):

I've yet to attempt frying an egg on its main blade, but the wide "canvas" suggested a different sort of play.

Mixed results, but fun while it lasted:

(It didn't last.)

Gratuitous glamor shots:

Top-shelf photos comparing the Big Boys:

Here are a couple of older pics on hand. Top to bottom, Whaler, Limberjack, Sunfish:

Here is a pic of a different bone handle Lumberjack with a single blade Sunfish easy open. The Lumberjack blade is significantly more robust. Also, the Lumberjacks have a half stop:

Here's the favorite from my pile of larger ones:

You're gonna feel all of them in your pocket but the single blade 36s are the best to carry in my opinion. I carry the 36 in a leather pocket slip; helps to keep it upright in pocket. Good luck in your hunt. :thumbup:

Good choice. The big 'un's are fun!

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My #36 again, now with a Lumberin' Jack:

And finally, no Toenail thread is complete without images of Bigfattyt grillin' his:

~ P.

 

[Markesharp]

Thanks Sarah for that great information. Part of me wants one "just because" and the other part of me says "Wow, it's massive".

I do like your red bone 36 and Smithhammers EO very much.

 

[Wavester]

With ETs - there seems to be only 2 ends of the spectrum - very affordable (Rough Rider) and very Expensive (GEC and the like). Are there TNs out there that I dont know of that are Mid-Range - say $50-$60 of decent size and quality?

 

[screened porch]

My only one. The other side of the tang is stamped "Designed by Stewart A. Taylor".

 

[Jenner 515]

Some other options. The Case is really thin compared to the GEC. The S&M Wildcat Driller has three blades of ATS-34.

The Lumberjack is just in case I need a boat anchor.