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I have found some of the reactions to the 97 and recent 23 run surprisingly strong, as they weren’t new patterns and aside from the spring tension on the 97, neither knife contained any real surprises that buyers couldn’t have foreseen.
 
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Camillus said:
I have found some of the reactions to the 97 and recent 23 run surprisingly strong, as they weren’t new and neither knife contained any real surprises that buyers couldn’t have foreseen.
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Knowing what I know now, that appears to be true. Unfortunately I bought one when I was still pretty new to GEC and didn't have my own preferences or good references (e.g. this forum) figured out yet. Now it just sits in the tube. Which drives me a little nuts when I think about it, because for the most part I dislike "safe queens".
 
RBB2 said:
Knowing what I know now, that appears to be true. Unfortunately I bought one when I was still pretty new to GEC and didn't have my own preferences or good references (e.g. this forum) figured out yet. Now it just sits in the tube. Which drives me a little nuts when I think about it, because for the most part I dislike "safe queens".
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Why not sell it?
 
This is all that's up so far...

edit: it's labeled wrong on GEC's site. Correct pic is a few posts below.

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Being new and having no personal experience with either the 74 or 47, how can one tell which of these two speculative possibilities these bolsters would belong to?
 
Camillus said:
I have found some of the reactions to the 97 and recent 23 run surprisingly strong, as they weren’t new patterns and aside from the spring tension on the 97, neither knife contained any real surprises that buyers couldn’t have foreseen.
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I know, Right?
It's not like the #23's haven't historically had strong pulls.
 
RBB2 said:
Being new and having no personal experience with either the 74 or 47, how can one tell which of these two speculative possibilities these bolsters would belong to?
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The two patterns are reversed. While they may look like 47 bolsters initially, you can tell the left bolsters in the picture will go on the right side of these knives. :D
 
Camillus said:
I have found some of the reactions to the 97 and recent 23 run surprisingly strong, as they weren’t new patterns and aside from the spring tension on the 97, neither knife contained any real surprises that buyers couldn’t have foreseen.
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To be fair, there are so many here (myself included) that weren't around when the prior runs of 23s were produced. Also, there are many here who are rather new to the whole GEC collecting thing as a whole and are likely rather enthusiastic about whatever GEC is currently producing.

On another note:
Personally, I have found the perceptions surrounding pulls to be very subjective. I'd say that I wasn't too concerned with the reports of the 23s having too stout of a pull but I also have strong fingers and nails and am rather used to the Sheffield made Lambsfoot knives - those folks don't know the meaning of soft pulls... The only knife that I moved on because I found the pulls to be obnoxiously heavy was the GEC #46 - it sure was a pretty knife but I derived no pleasure from using or working the action. On my personal scale, where a 23 is a very comfortable 7, that 46 was at the very least a 9 - maybe even heavier on the pen blade.

The point being, my "7" could very well be someone else's "9" or vice versa.
 
akaMatt said:
The two patterns are reversed. While they may look like 47 bolsters initially, you can tell the left bolsters in the picture will go on the right side of these knives. :D
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I see the captions now looking on mobile, for some reason they weren't showing up on my laptop earlier.
 
RBB2 said:
Being new and having no personal experience with either the 74 or 47, how can one tell which of these two speculative possibilities these bolsters would belong to?
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The mislabeled pic I posted has bolsters on both ends and the 74 doesn't.
 
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