New model GEC Dogleg Trapper

MooreMaker have Trappers in bone and carbon at 3 7/8"

If I am goiing to spend that sort of money on a trapper, I would buy a MooreMaker
 
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Yes they do, and I suspect the same guy designed both...

GEC has them in bone and carbon as well. But if we all picked the same knife there would only be one maker.... ;)

Mike Latham
CollectorKnives.Net
 
I like the handle -- it's nice to see more curves. GEC makes too many chunky knives, but I'm not wild about trapper patterns. I just don't have enough use for a spey blade. Now, if they come out with a furtaker/wharncliffe version using this handle, or a single clip blade version... mmm. The guitar shield's getting kind of old, too. I didn't mind the first few, but it seems to be on every new acrylic Tidioute, along with that silly Tango blade etch...
 
^ probably Bill Howard, formerly Chief Designer at Queen (Queen makes the higher end Moore Maker knives), designed the trappers in question.
I've got a Queen City trapper that I bought in the exchange that looks very similar to the new GEC Traditional except a few eighths of an inch shorter.
 
I'm looking forward to seeing the bone versions, should be a cutting bastid with those thin looking blades!
 
randomlooker said:
GEC makes too many chunky knives. ... The guitar shield's getting kind of old, too. I didn't mind the first few, but it seems to be on every new acrylic Tidioute, along with that silly Tango blade etch...
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Chunky? Silly? Don't you mean unique? ;)
 
mnblade said:
Chunky? Silly? Don't you mean unique? ;)
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I'd think "randomlooker" meant just what he said or he wouldn't have sait it.

I too think some GEC knives are overly chunky (the whittler I have out in the rain is one) and think some of their etchings are silly and unnecessary BUT I buy them anyway.:)
 
i admit some of the gec labels are corny but i'm a corny guy.i once asked latham if these guys were from east tex. or arkansas since they used so many ole timey expressions. he said there were lots of hill-billies in the country even in the north.whatever i buy the knives for the superior const. & materials. maybe we will see one called hot liquorice in the future.
 
Got my Cobblestone Bone Trapper in the mail today. Time for a short review.

Fit and Finish is excellence everything is where it needs to be no gaps ping or dings.
Sharpest GEC out of the tube I've received, hair shaving sharp.
The Cobblestone Bone is pretty and perfectly matches my previously purchased Cattleman Pattern in Cobblestone.

Head to head vs. my other EDC Trapper, a Case in CV and yellow Synthetic.

Case carries about 1/4" longer and sits about 1/8-3/16" taller side by side on the table. GEC is actually wider by maybe a 1/16th of an inch, that may be the bone vs. synthetic handles.

GEC is not a nail breaker in this model, half stops on both blades walk and talk is superb.
Nail pulls are on opposite sides of the knife for the GEC. Both on the shield side for the Case.

She carries alot better in the pocket than her bigger brother the Cattleman (Or anything else on that platform like a Big Jack, Moose, or Harness Jack)

Over all, a Fave so far, It'll get EDC use for a while and I'll post more thoughts, and maybe some pics at that time.
 
I can't seem to find one for sale with the St. Paddy's green scales.

Have they all been snapped up or is there one in stock someplace?

Trappers are about my favorite pattern to carry, and I have to have one of these, preferably in that nifty green.
 
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