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Travman said:
It is great for stag and light colored bone. With brass you have to worry about brass corrosion (verdigris) turning the stag or bone green.
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Right! I've several light coloured bone and stag knives that show a lot of green brass bleed (verdigris) and there seems no way to get rid of it as it's coming from the liner face onto the scale.

I also find that all steel have very tight gap free construction on GEC knives at least.

What I like is all stainless liners and spring, or at least NS liners to keep the verdigris down. Brass can look nice in a contrastive way but I'd much rather not have it, pretty foul smell it has too...
 
Here's a Wall St. in Stag that I've been very pleased with :cool:

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Duper said:
Thanks to all for the many responses on my "all steel construction" question.

,,,Mike in Canada
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I love GEC’s all steel construction. That is why I’ll be getting quite a few of the upcoming 14’s. It is great for a knife that gets a lot of sweat and moisture down into the joints and pins. However, I don’t really have a problem with brass corrosion with my knives. I live in a house with central air and I just never see any corrosion. I wipe my knives down and oil them if I do a job that requires the knife to get wet.

The only brass I seem to have a problem with is on a knife that came to me with verdigris already deep down in the pins. No matter how many times I soak it in Balistol oil, the green always comes back.

I also did see some brass corrosion on the liners of a Case Sodbuster when it was stored in the toolbox of my garage for a few months. It was during the summer and the knife was subject to the humidity of a Virginia summer.
 
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videorecipes said:
forgive my ignorance, but do shields serve any practical function? they look great, but it seems like a lot of these aesthetics features also had practical origins. do shields have any?
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tstaut said:
People used to have their initials engraved on them. Especially the bar type shields but sometimes federal etc as well.
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Still do!

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I generally, unless it's a unique and meaningful shield like on the green banana bone #35 or the brass #44, prefer no shield. But if there is a shield, I vastly prefer pinned (not glued :thumbsdown:o_O) and unmarked/unstamped.
 
L.H.S said:
Still do!

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I generally, unless it's a unique and meaningful shield like on the green banana bone #35 or the brass #44, prefer no shield. But if there is a shield, I vastly prefer pinned (not glued :thumbsdown:o_O) and unmarked/unstamped.
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Nicely done Logan.
 
Glad you got it back Taylor, and I must say that you rank among the patina elite. All your knives see lots of good use it seems.
 
Does anyone know more about the next batch of #85 and EO85?

I'd like to know when the batch is scheduled to see if I can let myself go on other GECs in the meantime...
 
You mean after the big batch of #14 and the small batch of #99 announced?

The #14 batch is really important, I guess GEC will be busy for more than a month with this one...

Projection is not simple...

I don't want to miss the next EA85 and I can't wait...I've been dreaming too long about the pictures of Northfield #85 Smooth Bone.
 
The phrase "I can't wait" probably shouldn't be in the vocabulary of a GEC collector. :D

If you really can't wait there are always ways to get just about any knife you want, as long as you're willing to pay the price, but I think patience (sometimes a lot of patience) is a necessity when you're after a particular pattern/knife from GEC. :thumbsup:
 
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