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Will Power said:
Thanks. It's just the way customs work, they're SLOW and only in Helsinki, the local ones have been closed down. And if they notified you by text or e-mail it would speed it up but uh uh you get a letter with the bill which you pay on-line instantly then they might get round to releasing it to the P.O. for delivery.....watch that paint dry:eek::confused:
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I hate them customs guys as well. Over here they first notify you, then you have to send them a receit, then they figure out how much it'll cost you and then you pay the postman upon delivery. If you're home. I never am, so I have to go to the post office myself and it might not even be there the first day. About a week for the whole procedure.

But hey, at least there's just one Findland. The last knife I bought travelled here for over a month because the post service by mistake sent it to Slovakia instead of Slovenia.

Great stag, Will and kamagong!
 
The stag shield issue is a tough one, I'm sure that it is hard to do on a craggy piece of stag, have seen a few where the shield sat well into the stag and there was a very large lip that stood out. I also wonder how many handles may have been ruined during the shield inletting process and if that influenced the decision.
Having said that I do prefer the look with the shield and wish they would reconsider, at least on some patterns.

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Looks like the #38 abalone is up. Looking forward to getting mine.

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Wow, looks like the swedge starts right at the plunge!? Pretty cool but definitely no room for error when grinding that in:confused:
 
Good call. I missed the preorder but I may be looking to pick one up once they hit the shelves. Sure wish it would have been offered in a wharncliffe half-whittler in MOP with 440C blades, might just have been the last gentlemen's knife I would ever have had to buy? :rolleyes:
 
ISKRA said:
I hate them customs guys as well. Over here they first notify you, then you have to send them a receit, then they figure out how much it'll cost you and then you pay the postman upon delivery. If you're home. I never am, so I have to go to the post office myself and it might not even be there the first day. About a week for the whole procedure.

But hey, at least there's just one Findland. The last knife I bought travelled here for over a month because the post service by mistake sent it to Slovakia instead of Slovenia.

Great stag, Will and kamagong!
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Don't bank on it Jan. To the ignorant, Slovenia might sounds like Slovakia, or Serbia well even Siam..Er isn't that some place full of cats?? :D But a US package got sent to me in ´'Finland, United Kingdom' !! Once in Britain it got sent to Canada! They managed to figure out Finland was some place cold like their land and so I got it, eventually.....:rolleyes:

My Bocote 38 arrived this afternoon. Great grain and whorls in it. Bit early to say about the knife all over but it's excellently finished: centre blade, no gaps, VERY sharp and nice grinds. Snap seems a bit tame mind but an oiling will sort it, pull is smooth though. I'll say more in a day or two. The wood's fabuluous though:thumbsup:
 
BenjaminRush said:
Other than the 66, any other updates to what's on the horizon?

Also, GEC is a sickness... my collection keeps growing...

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Your looking at this wrong (glass half empty / half full). GEC is not the sickness; rather GEC is the cure to the sickness. See :)
 
All I've heard about is what you probably know already from the forum. If I recall correctly, one of the reasons the forum knife is a TC 15 barlow is because they were already scheduled for this year. Mike said he is planning on the 77 barlow this year. There was a FB poll and a BF thread discussing 77 barlow options. The 35 farm and field and as you said, the 66 should be on the upcoming schedule. There is a production picture of 66 bone slabs on GEC's site. Oh, and there was a post awhile back about an 81, but nothing real specific... I don't remember all the details about that and can't find the thread right now so I might be wrong about that... or all of it... I never really go by what anyone says or even GEC's production schedule. Things change all the time.
 
cbr1000 said:
All I've heard about is what you probably know already from the forum. If I recall correctly, one of the reasons the forum knife is a TC 15 barlow is because they were already scheduled for this year. Mike said he is planning on the 77 barlow this year. There was a FB poll and a BF thread discussing 77 barlow options. The 35 farm and field and as you said, the 66 should be on the upcoming schedule. There is a production picture of 66 bone slabs on GEC's site. Oh, and there was a post awhile back about an 81, but nothing real specific... I don't remember all the details about that and can't find the thread right now so I might be wrong about that... or all of it... I never really go by what anyone says or even GEC's production schedule. Things change all the time.
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Thanks for the info!
 
I wonder if they'll work in a short run of GEC branded 440C stuff. They did the 74s and 15s around this time last year.
 
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