Lets talk GEC!

[dma1965]

Today it’s the Weaver Jack

 

[wickettedge]

An odd collection of 88s

 

[Elgatodeacero]

I love that TBDPKCC 88, I would have got one if I wasnt boycotting Facebook!

 

[wickettedge]

The FB group has flippers in it so you just gotta be patient E Elgatodeacero ... one will popup for ya.

Since BF didn't have a 2025 forum knife I had to go elsewhere....

 

[AusLoX]

 

[CujiWuji]

Wow I really like the green on that one, it looks awesome!

 

[afishhunter]

Sorry to bother y'all.
I am just curious:
What GEC patterns (if any) are equipped wth iron bolsters, and/or both iron bolsters and liners?

 

[jmgruber]

Sorry to bother y'all.
I am just curious:
What GEC patterns (if any) are equipped wth iron bolsters, and/or both iron bolsters and liners?

If I knew the answer I wouldn’t feel bothered and would be happy to help. Who do you need kicked off the porch for poor treatment?

 

[calm]

I think the Farm and Field models have steel liners, if that helps.

 

[dovidola]

Sorry to bother y'all.
I am just curious:
What GEC patterns (if any) are equipped wth iron bolsters, and/or both iron bolsters and liners?

None that I know of. I doubt iron in its pure elemental form has been used much for knives for many centuries. Without the addition of carbon (which renders it into a compound known as steel), iron is too brittle and corrosion-prone to be of much use.

Steel, however, is used by GEC for the liners and pins of some of their products - sometimes they indicate this by the letters STL after the 6-digit reference on the tube lid. Apart from Farm & Field models (as has been mentioned by the previous post), steel liners often crop up on #14, #15, #77, but not exclusively, and not limited to those patterns. My #35 Cattle Knife and #68 Pony Jack have steel liners but other examples of those patterns don't (in my limited experience).

As for bolsters, I'm unsure. Perhaps someone else can definitively advise. Even when the liners and pins are steel, the bolsters still look like nickel silver (an alloy of copper, nickel and zinc). As for integral construction (where a steel liner and bolster are made as a single piece), I'm not aware of GEC ever doing this.

I wish GEC would use steel construction for their stag-handled knives. This would make the unsightly verdigris (aka brass bleed) less likely to occur than with brass.

 

[Alex.Y.]

As for bolsters, I'm unsure. Perhaps someone else can definitively advise. Even when the liners and pins are steel, the bolsters still look like nickel silver (an alloy of copper, nickel and zinc). As for integral construction (where a steel liner and bolster are made as a single piece), I'm not aware of GEC ever doing this.

I always thought that when they use STL it means bolsters are steel too. Mine sure look like steel in person. Intergal construction they don't do, as far as I know.