Lets talk GEC!

Ripcord 82 said:
Yep..I agree with all this. One thing that with using vinegar or mustard though, I would usually make a baking soda paste and spread around on the blade to counteract the acid from those . It'll stop the forced patina process before it does turn to red rust.
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Good idea, and don't forget to clean the inside of the backspring. A little rust on a blade isn't so destructive or hard to remove, but can be a functional problem if left on the backspring. I sometimes put some oil on a tissue and use a wooden coffee stirrer to run it inside the well.
 
r8shell said:
The reason the bolsters can still look shiny is because they are made of nickel, rather than steel, so they don't take the same patina.
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Yeah, I hear you on not going overnight- I now recall another article I read where the guy ended up with the good and the bad oxidation. I will say that while the bolsters are nickel silver and won’t patina the same way, I would have expected a lot more scratches in a knife with a patina that heavy. It was my first clue that perhaps it was a great forced patina job. Excellent pictures by the way!!

My trusty 35 Churchill has a great patina, but it’s pretty even gray I believe due to the gradual daily use method. Once I figure out how the inter webs work, I’ll post some pics
 
EngrSorenson said:
Yeah, I hear you on not going overnight- I now recall another article I read where the guy ended up with the good and the bad oxidation. I will say that while the bolsters are nickel silver and won’t patina the same way, I would have expected a lot more scratches in a knife with a patina that heavy. It was my first clue that perhaps it was a great forced patina job. Excellent pictures by the way!!

My trusty 35 Churchill has a great patina, but it’s pretty even gray I believe due to the gradual daily use method. Once I figure out how the inter webs work, I’ll post some pics
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This is what helped me to post pictures:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/how-to-post-pictures-using-imgur-comprehensive.1504241/
 
Modoc ED said:
Osage Orange

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I like that one, ED. :cool: :thumbsup:
 
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I really like the thread within a thread we have created on these locking GEC knives. Here is an 83, 73, 72 Red Stag, and 42 in stainless. I bought them all on the secondary market just to be able to make sure that I got knives that locked up tight with no play.

The Cocobolo 73 is a recent buy from J jsdistin , and I am already very fond of it. Thanks, and, in the first sentence of your post #15779 on the previous page 789, what will your knife not do on its own?!! I hope I won’t need to start buying diapers for my knives!!! That might finally be the end of my knife buying addiction!!

B blademan 13 , what an incredible 73!! That blade stamp is off the charts. I would to see that again one day, but I doubt we will. I have read that it is too difficult for them and there is a lot of wasted material if the blades bend. And that key hole stamp in the stag is so unique and beautiful!

@Modoc ED , what a great looking Osage 73. Is that a forced patina, or is it earned? Looking at it more closely, maybe that is just shadowing from the photo. Or did the knife just spend a winter on the roof of your shed?!!

@cjtamu , that snakewood 73 could very well be the ultimate knife. Congratulations on that one!

Everyone else thanks for the great photographs and information on the 73’s in particular but also on the other locking single blade Trapper type knives. Please keep them coming!
 
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Ripcord 82 said:
Yep..I agree with all this. One thing that with using vinegar or mustard though, I would usually make a baking soda paste and spread around on the blade to counteract the acid from those . It'll stop the forced patina process before it does turn to red rust.
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That's too much work for me. ;) I'll just squirt a shot of Windex onto a paper towel and then use that to wipe down the blade.
 
Leslie Tomville said:
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I really like the thread within a thread we have created on these locking GEC knives. Here is an 83, 73, 72 Red Stag, and 42 in stainless. I bought them all on the secondary market just to be able to make sure that I got knives that locked up tight with no play.

The Cocobolo 73 is a recent buy from J jsdistin , and I am already very fond of it. Thanks, and, in the first sentence of your post #15779 on the previous page 789, what will your knife not do on its own?!! I hope I won’t need to start buying diapers for my knives!!! That might finally be the end of my knife buying addiction!!

B blademan 13 , what an incredible 73!! That blade stamp is off the charts. I would to see that again one day, but I doubt we will. I have read that it is too difficult for them and there is a lot of wasted material if the blades bend. And that key hole stamp in the stag is so unique and beautiful!

@Modoc ED , what a great looking Osage 73. Is that a forced patina, or is it earned? Looking at it more closely, maybe that is just shadowing from the photo. Or did the knife just spend a winter on the roof of your shed?!!

@cjtamu , that snakewood 73 could very well be the ultimate knife. Congratulations on that one!

Everyone else thanks for the great photographs and information on the 73’s in particular but also on the other locking single blade Trapper type knives. Please keep them coming!
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Maybe later you'll see another GEC posted. I have a #81 coming in the mail today. I like your avatar by the way. Those horses look really well built. Mine are old like me.My wife's horse is 30 and mine is 17. I don't even want to say how old my first horse would have been.:(
Oh and Monday, I think a #66 Roper will arrive. Since I used to Team Rope Long Horn steers, I thought it only fitting.
 
Leslie Tomville said:
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The Cocobolo 73 is a recent buy from J jsdistin , and I am already very fond of it. Thanks, and, in the first sentence of your post #15779 on the previous page 789, what will your knife not do on its own?!! I hope I won’t need to start buying diapers for my knives!!! That might finally be the end of my knife buying addiction!!
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Ha! One of those instances where the incorrect auto correct is better than what was intended. I think I read somewhere to only say what we would want our kids or grandmother’s to read or some such thing and my kids are very young, so I’ll have to edit it.
 
jsdistin said:
Ha! One of those instances where the incorrect auto correct is better than what was intended. I think I read somewhere to only say what we would want our kids or grandmother’s to read or some such thing and my kids are very young, so I’ll have to edit it.
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I was going to say something too but I thought to many good laughs would come from that statement with the Sheet word.lol Funny!
 
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