Lets talk GEC!

[easternknives]

Genuine stag was more common in the earlier years. Those were the only ones that came with the hat pin because they weren't shielded. As the years went by, GEC's use of genuine stag was less common. Looking over the production numbers it seems 2014 was the last year used on 7 pcs. of #78's. Burnt stag and natural stag were shielded so no hat pins. Seems like when they switched to sambar stag they opted out of both shields and hat pins.

 

[Nature Boy]

One in Genuine Stag, with pin, that I wish I still had…

 

[rdave]

Very choice, superb knife.

Thanks for showing it and thanks too to Mike knifeswapper for the very useful clarification about GEC's Stag naming.

yep and thanks - bought it from GEC '11 - it will have a place in my box for many years to come...

 

[knifeswapper]

That's helpful - never knew that. A question though: when the tube lid simply says "Sambar Stag" (as it so often does), does that mean it's Burnt Sambar Stag, Natural Sambar Stag, Genuine Sambar Stag, a combination of those, or something else?
Also, if the material is bought in as Genuine Stag, can it, once cut, be torched at all?

After "Genuine" and "Natural" verbiage was discontinued (don't know exactly what year); they vary wording from "Burnt Stag", "Sambar Stag", and "Stag". I don't know that there is any difference other than the torching. What they can now get, comes in slabs. Genuine Stag always had the pin and no shield and that is the same basis as the relatively new decision to not have a shield on any stag.

 

[rdave]

here is a recent production and great looking GEC Sambar stag without the unxld emblem - some say these stags without the unxld emblem appear generic

 

[Markeologist]

I’d like to see an 86 get the Washington Jack treatment. The run of 77 Washington Jacks and Punch knives are among the best ever offered by GEC.

 

[black mamba]

Burnt Stag

Natural Stag

Genuine Stag

Caribou Stag

Red Stag

Elk Stag

Smooth 2nd Cut Stag

Black Stag

Sambar Stag

 

[Your Name Goes Here]

Burnt Stag

Natural Stag

Genuine Stag

Caribou Stag

Red Stag

Elk Stag

Smooth 2nd Cut Stag

Black Stag

Sambar Stag

WOW (said in a reverent whisper)

 

[btb01]

Polished stag

 

[EngrSorenson]

Polished stag

Is that stag that was fed too much kielbasa and pirogies?

 

[Modoc ED]

knifeswapper - Remember this?

 

[Old Engineer]

knifeswapper - Remember this?

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Thanks very much Ed !!!! I did not know that I had one of the very first one made without the UNXLD Shield .



Harry

 

[Modoc ED]

Thanks very much Ed !!!! I did not know that I had one of the very first one made without the UNXLD Pin .



Harry

That's a "Beaut" Harry. Thought that letter from Bill Howard would be more useful to you guys than what I'm eating at the Wagon Wheel Cafe when I go to town tomorrow.

 

[Buckeye Sharp]

Burnt Stag - bought in slabs and torched to enhance the color.
Natural Stag - bought in slabs, but nice enough to cause them not to torch.
Genuine Stag - bought in full horn format and cut by the factor for optimal stag show.

Thank you, Mike. That answers part of the question. I’ll assume that the absence of a shield and the inclusion of an UNXLD shield pin is what makes the Genuine Stag more easily identified. And maybe there’s truth to J jsdistin statement about being to nice to add a shield to. Kinda like the using the Cloud shield and the UNXLD shield on a few models that had ivory covers to differentiate elephant and hippo ivory.

 

[CelloDan]

 

[Jiki]

Looks like my model has been posing for you or possibly fled my garden or worse since Miss Tabby came to live with us....

Tremendous knife there but then, any version of the 38 is fatal attraction for me, one of GEC's finest frames.

Thank you Will Power , I needed the color palette.

 

[mcc850]

Thank you Will Power , I needed the color palette.

Your skills are top notch, Jiki .

 

[5K Qs]

Thank you Will Power , I needed the color palette.

Really impressed with that squirrel, especially the "jigging" to create its fur!!

- GT

 

[Jiki]

Really impressed with that squirrel, especially the "jigging" to create its fur!!

- GT

Thank you.

When you spend several hours with a palm tool in soft basswood, you get a whole new appreciation for the work they do on bone.

 

[5K Qs]

Thank you.

When you spend several hours with a palm tool in soft basswood, you get a whole new appreciation for the work they do on bone.

When you say "palm tool", does that mean you did the "fur" with a gouge or something, rather than a blade of your whittler?
I really have no idea how jigged bone handles are made. I assumed that some kind of mechanized process was involved, rather than a hand tool, but that's an assumption with no factual basis on my part.

- GT