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Gasp. Makes the knees in this knife knerd buckle. I would accept asterisked anecdotal totals for those. I guess 250 per for Tidioute, 200 ish for Northfield bone and wood and I think less for the stags.
 
Looking at the other patterns' totals, I think you're pretty close. They really stepped up production this past year!
 
The first thing I thought of when I saw several hundred + totals for individual covers was that it might be a rude awakening for those internet "dealers" who scooped up knives and immediately resold them for 25-40% markups. There should now be plenty to go around at the normal retail price.
 
black mamba said:
The first thing I thought of when I saw several hundred + totals for individual covers was that it might be a rude awakening for those internet "dealers" who scooped up knives and immediately resold them for 25-40% markups. There should now be plenty to go around at the normal retail price.
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black mamba said:
Looking at the other patterns' totals, I think you're pretty close. They really stepped up production this past year!
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Jeff, by my count, the 2017 totals and 2016 totals would be pretty close... 2017 numbers below don't include the missing 78s.

Totals include Tidioute, Northfield, Great Eastern, Farm & Field, and SFOs:

2016 - 31,418
2017 - 31,003

* old eyes calculated those totals
 
That's some pretty impressive work there, Al, but what I was referring to was the much larger totals per cover option. Since about 2008 GEC pretty much did 25-75 of each cover (total of serialized and unserialized) and some short runs were less than 10. Now they are making 2-300 of each cover option, and possibly more than that.
 
black mamba said:
That's some pretty impressive work there, Al, but what I was referring to was the much larger totals per cover option. Since about 2008 GEC pretty much did 25-75 of each cover (total of serialized and unserialized) and some short runs were less than 10. Now they are making 2-300 of each cover option, and possibly more than that.
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I gotcha! Yep, no doubt about it!
 
Does anyone know if "pepper spots" can be removed with Simichrome polish? (or Flitz which I do not currently own).

None of my knives have pepper spots, but I did use Simichrome to attempt to remove the patina from my new #44 Buffalo with pretty good results. You can still see a bit of dark discoloration (no matter how many times I polished/cleaned it).

Curious to know if trying to remove pepper spots would offer the same results? :confused:

I'm not looking to make any GEC knife look new, but just to eliminate any future discoloration and/or pitting.
 
DelOro said:
Does anyone know if "pepper spots" can be removed with Simichrome polish? (or Flitz which I do not currently own).

None of my knives have pepper spots, but I did use Simichrome to attempt to remove the patina from my new #44 Buffalo with pretty good results. You can still see a bit of dark discoloration (no matter how many times I polished/cleaned it).

Curious to know if trying to remove pepper spots would offer the same results? :confused:

I'm not looking to make any GEC knife look new, but just to eliminate any future discoloration and/or pitting.
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Yeah flitz has worked out for me.
 
I've had success "dulling" a patina with Flitz, but it never removes it completely.
I actually like a nice patina, not dark black, but an even dull grey is nice looking.
 
JohnDF said:
I've had success "dulling" a patina with Flitz, but it never removes it completely.
I actually like a nice patina, not dark black, but an even dull grey is nice looking.
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Yeah, I too like patina on the blades.

The other night I was quartering a dozen key limes and apparently didn't rinse the blade properly.

The result was several nasty dark black spots and a few small red ones (rust?) all over the clip blade. :mad:

I originally planned to just remove the spots and got carried away. :oops:

I'll pick up some Flitz this weekend.
 
what is this ??? :confused: :eek: :confused:

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