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bbfish said:
Anyone else wish/think they could keep a better system for production schedule updates? Its obviously not my business, they can run it however they want. I would certainly appreciate it though, I personally feel its so much nicer when you know what you might want to spend money on and plan for it.
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Bill Howards inner machinations always to get us to the right place in time...
 
LastRodeo said:
GEC is like the young celebrity who everyone loves when they are on the rise, but criticizes when they reach the top.
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I think many of us have sour grapes as we're priced out of owning GECs by the scalpers and the collectors who treat them like a funky pop or pokemon collection and feed the beast by having to own every variation of scale or blade style. Gotta catch 'em all!

I was a huge proponent of GEC when they didn't disappear within minutes, got some friends into the #21 after talking up mine.
 
r8shell said:
I'm hoping the next run will be metric.
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Better for combing European beards. :thumbsup:

Travman said:
Does anyone else notice that the Northfield polished blades are never truly polished? Is this something that is getting worse?

These pics highlight the micro scratches in the sunlight. From some angles the blades do look well polished, but anytime you hold the blade just right you can see the lack of true polishing.

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I normally don’t worry about it because I assume a patina will be on the blade soon. But after comparing my nice 1960’s Case which has a true mirror polish to my Northfields I am wondering if GEC should raise the bar. Am I being unrealistic?
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I’ve noticed that before. A couple times I thought that I had scratched the blades while wiping them down (even switched to a different cloth), but then I realized that was just how they came.
 
spittle8 said:
I think many of us have sour grapes as we're priced out of owning GECs by the scalpers and the collectors who treat them like a funky pop or pokemon collection and feed the beast by having to own every variation of scale or blade style. Gotta catch 'em all!

I was a huge proponent of GEC when they didn't disappear within minutes, got some friends into the #21 after talking up mine.
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Until people stop paying these silly prices there will always be scalpers. I do agree that they are parasites on this hobby, but in reality there are such like minded parasites in pretty much every hobby. I don't even bother looking at fleabay anymore, but when I first started a couple years back I'd search for X pattern and see, oh they want 300 dollars for it? Nevermind, ill just not have that pattern. Blows my mind people even think about paying some of the prices they do. But I cant control what other people do, so if i can snag a knife on a drop, great, if not, oh well. Perhaps down the road I can trade something for it.

I do think we are seeing the frenzy slow down. Watching FB I see lots of GEC's for sale that 6 months ago would have been snatched up in seconds. I'd guess it's tied into the grander economic down turn.
 
bbfish said:
Until people stop paying these silly prices there will always be scalpers. I do agree that they are parasites on this hobby, but in reality there are such like minded parasites in pretty much every hobby. I don't even bother looking at fleabay anymore, but when I first started a couple years back I'd search for X pattern and see, oh they want 300 dollars for it? Nevermind, ill just not have that pattern. Blows my mind people even think about paying some of the prices they do. But I cant control what other people do, so if i can snag a knife on a drop, great, if not, oh well. Perhaps down the road I can trade something for it.

I do think we are seeing the frenzy slow down. Watching FB I see lots of GEC's for sale that 6 months ago would have been snatched up in seconds. I'd guess it's tied into the grander economic down turn.
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and thats the problem. once upon a time it was certainly possible to trawl ebay for the occasional deal. but as the years pass its not even worth looking any more. I guess some people got really deep pockets and want it bad enough. Its the same for me, if i cant get it on the drop fair and square, im not gonna chase after it.
 
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nyrico said:
Catching up this thread, saw the discussion on the "shell puller" , but I always wanted to know what the bird hook was for.
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Recently saw an explanation video on YT, the hook is for hunters to get the bird's guts out instead of using their fingers.


Finally got my goldenrod TC 14, and it is awesome! No any tiniest flaw did I found. Have a question about "No BS Barlow", maybe it was discussed before, but I missed it... Why GEC put that sticker on their recent non-Charlie's Barlows? They are not trying to say that Charlie's were "BS Barlows", right?! I really don't understand, maybe that's because english is not my mother tongue. Would someone explain that to me please?
 
Sabercat said:
Had a great trade last week that allowed me to complete my GEC 2 blade Eureka Jack collection. Had to give up something really special, but I got something equally special in return.

We didn't realize until well into our negotiations that his Rosewood Galvanic etched 92 was a serial match to my stag!

Here's my JBF Champlin subset of my Eureka collection. Newest addition on the right.
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Great accomplishment Ryan! Happy for you. If you ever come across another rosewood please keep me in your thoughts 🙏🏻🙂
 
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