Will Power
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YES YES YES YES!!!! That Barehead Wharncliffe Tidi is my next knife, FANTASTIC. Bone and a good acrylic please thank you
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Any thoughts on the upcoming #92? Just saw the drawings on the GEC site and they look awesome.
I knew the wharncliffe would be a looker and didn't think much about the spear as I already had one of the earlier releases. Big mistake! That Northfield spear is just about perfect for that frame. Much nicer than the original IMO. New shield as well. Ebony or blackwood just seem like the perfect compliment.
Very nice drawings, the Spear is slim and well suited to the frame but my desire rests on the Wharncliffe as my previous post shows...
One thing I do question though, the Northfields have the nail-nick set far back, better not be toughly sprung or you'll never get it open....
good to see a new shield on the Northfield. But that Barehead is just it for me....'Barehead or Glory'
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HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP. I am INFATUATED with GEC but I have a serious problem. I have been trying to get a Charlow and a white owl but I live in australia. I just bought a knife from America and by today it has taken THREE weeks to get here and it still ain't in my pocket. GEC didn't have a very helpful store findr on their site so I am BEGGING for help. Does anyone know a retailer in Australia? ANY help is appreciated. Pleaase inform by PM. Thankyou a thousand times in advance. In the meantime let's keep talking GEC!!!
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Three weeks aint long, one took 6 weeks to get to me in Europe, just sayin. Was Christmas time though.....
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What do you think about the nick placement on the spears? Two different positions and a longer swedge on the Northfield. Is it harder to open the knife with the knick more towards the handle?
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If the spring is tough it will be difficult to open a knife with the nick closer to the tang. GEC have known history for heavy springs....
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If I buy one I'm leaning towards the Tidi Spearpoint. How's the spring tension on the current 92?
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GEC's original website (not the newer one) has a comprehensive list of distributors, including Australia. My advice is patience, I wait on average 4-6 weeks for my American imports to show up in Germany.
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Patience my friend. Think Guinness. Good things come to those who wait.
I usually wait three weeks or more. I order all my GECs from vendors in the US. Sometimes you get lucky though, I ordered a 61 once and it arrived in six working days.
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THREE WEEKS. Thankyou for the reply, but just remember I am a student so patience, maturity and general humanity would be breaking the student union codes
I guess I might just have to (sigh) wait
I guess I might just have to (sigh) wait
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The pull of my #92 is relatively easy, 5-6 maybe. Not thinking of the nick placement being an issue as it is located about where the secondary blade pull is on the earlier model.
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Thanks. I was just wondering about the nick and pull due to my fingers getting becoming less nimble as time goes on.
Have to agree. The examples I have open relatively easy.
I like this new blade profile as well. What I'd prefer, however, is they leave off the end cap on the N'fields.
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good to see a new shield on the Northfield....
I'm all for a new shield, but not that one. I love how GEC often uses the simple, symmetric "UN-X-LD" to represent/identify Northfield knives, and have long wished for a Tidioute counterpart. Without such, Tidioute shields are either bare or feature TIDIOUTE stamped in what looks to me like an o'er large, utilitarian font.
"NORTHFIELD UN-X-LD"?
You lose both the symmetry of "UN-X-LD" on a shield shape for which the letters are perfectly suited (the centered 'X') and the cache of simple elegance and branding, and are left with a cluttered, redundant mishmash.
Says picky I.
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Maybe, but with respect, the secondary blade is much shorter than the Master, so opening could be an issue on that Spear Northfield if the spring is tough. I like heavy springs, but my Northfield 73 with matchstrike and longpull/swedge is hell to open, and this has a tough spring and a relatively far back set nick.
I hope I'm wrong. Could be nice IF these single-blades were without half-stops for smoother opening? What do you all think?
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Only paying members (purple and above) have PM but you can still be contacted via email if you enable it in your profile (which you don't have enabled). GEC lists 2 distributors in Australia. Here's the list on their site, not sure if you saw it. http://greateasterncutlery.net/blog/our-gec-distributors/
Any thoughts on the upcoming #92? Just saw the drawings on the GEC site and they look awesome.
I knew the wharncliffe would be a looker and didn't think much about the spear as I already had one of the earlier releases. Big mistake! That Northfield spear is just about perfect for that frame. Much nicer than the original IMO. New shield as well. Ebony or blackwood just seem like the perfect compliment.
Those look really good, the Tidioutes atleast (imho). One reason I like Tidioutes in general is the simpler swedging allows the nail nicks to be placed in a more logical (again, imho) position.
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I hope for those who want Northfields that these have a lesser pull as I too think it might be an issue if they have strong springs, less so on the Tidioutes. As for the #73, a while back there was discussion on using powdered graphite in the pivot to help smooth out the pull a bit. I find on stainless GECs, even with strong springs, they are a bit easier to open than the carbon steel ones. I feel that the stainless blade has less friction against the scales and adding the graphite helps to reduce the friction on the 1095 blades. I did that for my Tidioute #73 ECL in ebony and it is definitely easier now. Although, being a Tidioute, it has a nice deep nail nick closer to the front of the blade.
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