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Quote from ad:
"The back side of this blade says TAYLOR BRANDS (below this) FIRE & ICE TEMP. (below this) SCH- 2007 C.D.. The C.D. stands for Charlie Dorton who is an antique knife designer and designed this knife."

Apparently this gentleman designs new "antiques." :confused: :confused:

Just my opinion, :thumbdn: :barf: :barf:
Dale
 
orvet said:
Quote from ad:
"The back side of this blade says TAYLOR BRANDS (below this) FIRE & ICE TEMP. (below this) SCH- 2007 C.D.. The C.D. stands for Charlie Dorton who is an antique knife designer and designed this knife."

Apparently this gentleman designs new "antiques." :confused: :confused:

Just my opinion, :thumbdn: :barf: :barf:
Dale
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No no, Dale! He's saying CHARLIE is the antique :eek: !
I wonder what CD has to say about that:D :D :D
 
Not a pattern that I'm going to rush out and buy, but sounds like Taylor see's us collectors as a viable market. He must have been reading the posts last year with all the griping about manufactoring moving away, China's bad, etc... So here we have an American and he is being employed to design knives that are being made here in the USA by Americans...sounds like a response to me!

Also looks like he's trying to compete with Queen (Schatt & Morgan F&W series).
 
Since we can be pretty sure that TBLLC has not built a new manufacturing plant, is this from the factory we heard about in Pennsylvania some time ago? Or is it an SFO from Queen or another?
 
Yes, it's a Great Eastern Cutlery Red Diamondback, They're a new company out in Titusville run by some ex-Queen personel. Aside from the shield the Taylor looks identical to the GEC (this is the initials Charlie was refering to) model. Here's a photo of the inaugural 2006 GEC model.
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Eric
 
A great big step in the right direction for Taylor. I would have no problem buying it, knowing it is "Made in the USA".
 
I think it would of been far better if the knife was a different design than all the other GEC knives to date, It's nothing special in itself.

Rusty1
 
I think it is more likely a Blue Grass Cutlery production; which most agree are produced by Queen. GEC has not shown any matchstriker pulls or fluted bolsters yet. It is also not crosscut bone as used in the GEC's. If we had exact dimensions we could guess a little more intelligently.

Examples can be found at Blue Grass Cutlery under the 29103 model numbers.

Also, would make a little more sense with the Charlie Dorton connection...
 
Knifeswapper,
The 29103 is 4 7/8" closed versus 4 1/2" for both the GEC and the Taylor. The diamond pattern jigging is from what I've heard done in house and is also nearly identical on both knives (they do tend to get a little sloppy with the jigging resulting in some near parallel cuts instead of "diamonds"). The threaded bolsters and matchstrike are new to me though, probably done to make it a bit different from the stock GEC's, or more vintage?. (That's just a guess).

Eric
 
I have a GEC Scout in the Primitive Bone handles.
Great knife, excellent walk & talk & very good fit & finish.

I still have a problem buying anything with Taylors name on it though. He took the Schrade name to China & bastardized it, (IMHO), so I choose to spend my money elsewhere, like Canal Street, GEC and buying old USA Schrades.

Just my 2¢,
Dale
 
But I'm reserving judgement here. It wouldn't be the first knife distributor with some made in the US and some made elsewhere. I think how truthful the advertising is will help sway my opinion one way or the other.
 
orvet said:
I have a GEC Scout in the Primitive Bone handles.
Great knife, excellent walk & talk & very good fit & finish.

I still have a problem buying anything with Taylors name on it though. He took the Schrade name to China & bastardized it, (IMHO), so I choose to spend my money elsewhere, like Canal Street, GEC and buying old USA Schrades.

Just my 2¢,
Dale
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Dale,
I agree that taking the Schrade name and putting it on a China made knive is unexcusable and I would never buy a Chinese Schrade or Buck for that matter. But I would not have an issue with this knife even with the Taylor name associated with it. Any knife that helps keep our American cutlers working in these dire times in desparately needed. It just blows mind that Schrade and Camillus could and did go out of buisness here in America.
 
thawk said:
Whatever the case, he was too proud of it to let it go for $71.00.
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I am not surprised. The Great Eastern knives I have seen start at about $65 and go up from there. I can't imagine that a new start-up cutlery company, like Great Eastern, would be able to give Taylor (or anyone else) a deep discount. Taylor has to make his cut & the seller has to make his cut on top of that. Personally I would be amazed if his reserve was less than $100.

Having been out of the cutlery business for 25 years, I don't know what percentages the industry is working on now, but everyone is in business to make a profit. I know that some ebay sellers take low mark-ups, but even at $100 there doesn't appear to me to be a lot of profit to go around.

Just my opinion,
Dale
 
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