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The model 83 is in production. GEC has photos of parts and some of the handle cover materials up on their website.
 
Ancient Barlow SFO?

Got the text, walked over to my ipad, logged in within 30 secs....gone.

Any pics or drawing of it out yet?
 
Hey guys I have a q on my 15 crown lifter.

A while back I posted some pics of the bone chips around the center pin. I returned it and as many of you have experienced they were great. Replacing the covers. It took a while, but I understand and not complaining.

Now I'm trying not to be too picky, but the pin closest to the bluster is a little loose on the mark side. It's not horrible, but noticeable. I can get my finger nail under the cover. Now for the odd part. The problem only seems to be notable when the knife is cold. After the knife is I in my pocket for the day. .... It seams to warm up and the problem goes away, or at least to the point where it's not noticeable.

Has anyone had this problem before. And is there something easy I can do to fix myself? I really don't wan t to send it back to gec to repair.

Thanks for any insight

Jim
 
onejim said:
Hey guys I have a q on my 15 crown lifter.

A while back I posted some pics of the bone chips around the center pin. I returned it and as many of you have experienced they were great. Replacing the covers. It took a while, but I understand and not complaining.

Now I'm trying not to be too picky, but the pin closest to the bluster is a little loose on the mark side. It's not horrible, but noticeable. I can get my finger nail under the cover. Now for the odd part. The problem only seems to be notable when the knife is cold. After the knife is I in my pocket for the day. .... It seams to warm up and the problem goes away, or at least to the point where it's not noticeable.

Has anyone had this problem before. And is there something easy I can do to fix myself? I really don't wan t to send it back to gec to repair.

Thanks for any insight

Jim
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Gotta say... If body heat fixes it, it's probably not a problem you should send the knife in for repair over.
 
I agree and don't want to send it in again. It's just something bugs me. Was curious if anyone else ever had this problem and if I there was an easy fix.

Jim
 
onejim said:
I agree and don't want to send it in again. It's just something bugs me. Was curious if anyone else ever had this problem and if I there was an easy fix.

Jim
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So you mean there's a gap between the pin and covers? Or is the pin loose as in it moves?
 
The cover lifts a little from the liner at the bolster. Just enough to get ur finger nail under.
 
I just have to say that I'm flat out amazed by GEC's quality.

Back 10 or 15 years ago, it wasn't easy to buy a good traditional knife. If you had access to a store that still carried traditionals, you were lucky enough to be able to hand pick one. But buying over the Internet was a risky proposition, with maybe less than a 50/50 chance of getting something with acceptably good fit and finish. I finally stopped buying traditionals when I no longer had access to brick and mortar stores to hand pick from. Too many disappointments from online purchases. You could tell that every knife company was investing money into their tactical lines, and just letting the unpopular traditionals lines die a grizzly death. The quality was truly ghastly sometimes.

Now that GEC is around, the game has changed completely. I've purchased 6 GEC's, 5 of them this year. Every single knife has been of better quality than the best quality traditionals that I purchased as far back as 20 years ago. And the GEC's aren't just the same old tired patterns either. They have a knack for putting out something entirely traditional, yet are able to creatively add something to each knife that makes it uniquely GEC at the same time, usually for a selling price of under a hundred bucks. The only way I've been able to find knives that rival my GEC's is to search out early 20th century traditionals from auction, made by old world cutlers, and GEC still often edges them out.

When I pick up a GEC, I can see and feel the honesty and love that went into it's manufacture. I don't think that newcomers to the game can truly appreciate how good it is to buy traditionals right now, in comparison to years past. It's nice to buy some other brands, and often even satisfying. But it is a privilege to own a GEC. Each knife is a new piece of cutlery history in my hands. It's like going to the museum, and getting to walk home with the exhibit.
 
Well said Buzzbait. It has been a very long 'drought' since reliably high quality traditional style folders were available. Up until 1950's or maybe into 1960's American made pocket knives were high quality tools. Then it was downhill and lots of disappointment until very recently. Now, thanks to GEC, Canal Street Cutlery & Bark River we can buy knives we have not had the chance to inspect first, and reliably be most pleased when they arrive.
These companies have put us into a new 'Golden Age' for Traditional knives. If you have gotten into Traditional knives since 2006, you might think it has always been as it is now. But it hasn't, and we do show our appreciation by buying out nearly every run of knives they make. These are good times for Traditional knifers.
kj
 
Let's not be forgetting the great 10 dot Case knives of the 1970s, those were some fine pocketknives. If you doubt that, you don't own any!
 
Buzzbait said:
I just have to say that I'm flat out amazed by GEC's quality.

Back 10 or 15 years ago, it wasn't easy to buy a good traditional knife. If you had access to a store that still carried traditionals, you were lucky enough to be able to hand pick one. But buying over the Internet was a risky proposition, with maybe less than a 50/50 chance of getting something with acceptably good fit and finish. I finally stopped buying traditionals when I no longer had access to brick and mortar stores to hand pick from. Too many disappointments from online purchases. You could tell that every knife company was investing money into their tactical lines, and just letting the unpopular traditionals lines die a grizzly death. The quality was truly ghastly sometimes.

Now that GEC is around, the game has changed completely. I've purchased 6 GEC's, 5 of them this year. Every single knife has been of better quality than the best quality traditionals that I purchased as far back as 20 years ago. And the GEC's aren't just the same old tired patterns either. They have a knack for putting out something entirely traditional, yet are able to creatively add something to each knife that makes it uniquely GEC at the same time, usually for a selling price of under a hundred bucks. The only way I've been able to find knives that rival my GEC's is to search out early 20th century traditionals from auction, made by old world cutlers, and GEC still often edges them out.

When I pick up a GEC, I can see and feel the honesty and love that went into it's manufacture. I don't think that newcomers to the game can truly appreciate how good it is to buy traditionals right now, in comparison to years past. It's nice to buy some other brands, and often even satisfying. But it is a privilege to own a GEC. Each knife is a new piece of cutlery history in my hands. It's like going to the museum, and getting to walk home with the exhibit.
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I'm not a collector (of anything, let alone knives) but I do accumulate stuff in my quest to find the best tool for my use. Sometimes I'll go through a half-dozen (or more) items as I work through what I like, is most useful, and has the quality level I'll accept. Then I'm usually done.

In the case of GEC, it's not their aesthetics which attract me (though they are consistently very good looking, the canoe pattern excepted); it's the fact that they're just really good cutting tools first and foremost. I have, for instance, a Queen/Winchester "black box" sowbelly stockman; I love the pattern and I've found the stockman blade selection really is perfect for me, but it's not the best cutting tool. Don't get me wrong; the steel is great and I've put tremendous edges on all three blades, but the blades are noticeably thicker than any of the GECs I have. As a result the Queen knives just don't cut as well as the GEC (and just to reiterate: the Queen isn't bad at all; it's just that GEC has better blade geometry.)

The superb fit and finish is just icing on the cake. (Now if they'd make a sowbelly stockman pattern I might have my "forever knife"!)
 
Has anybody heard any rumors floating around about a batch of Northwoods Hawthorns ever being done again? I really would like to get my hands on another one or two. I do not see them in the marketplace often. When they do show up, they are quickly grabbed up.
 
I was thinking that Id love to see a stockman pattern based on the 38 frame. Clip main, sheepscliffe and pen secondaries. That would be my grail. In stag please.
 
D.B Cooper said:
I was thinking that Id love to see a stockman pattern based on the 38 frame. Clip main, sheepscliffe and pen secondaries. That would be my grail. In stag please.
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Interesting idea. I'm hoping for a single spring 2-blade #38 with a clip main blade and a sheepfoot secondary. I'd like the sheepfoot secondary to be about the same size as the spey blade on the Farmer Jack.
 
supratentorial said:
Interesting idea. I'm hoping for a single spring 2-blade #38 with a clip main blade and a sheepfoot secondary. I'd like the sheepfoot secondary to be about the same size as the spey blade on the Farmer Jack.
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That's what I'm dreaming of too :D The 38 is a most impressive 3 blade with fine finish, but a single spring and that blade type would give us a sort of surveyor pattern which I believe could go down a storm. A stainless option would be an additional knirvarna for me:thumbup:
 
Will Power said:
That's what I'm dreaming of too :D The 38 is a most impressive 3 blade with fine finish, but a single spring and that blade type would give us a sort of surveyor pattern which I believe could go down a storm. A stainless option would be an additional knirvarna for me:thumbup:
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Is it too early to talk about the 2016 forum knife? ;)
 
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