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stag wharnie--red stag locker--tractor green scout--& ebony wharnie
these gecs are all about the same size & give newer members an idea of good edcs.they all have locks with the older scout pattern using the liner lock. personally i like the different locks equally but the lockbacks do have an easier action than the scout pattern. all will give good service & all are lightweight & not too large for pockets.
dennis
 
Dennis,

Those are all very nice, but........

The Wharncliffe Stag is simply stunning!!!

dan
 
Dennis, every time i think i have a knife collection, you raise the bar! I have the stag lockback and love it, but that ebony wharnie is a show stopper. One day you'll have to try to get your whole collection in one post... Keep up the good work!
 
Nice set as usual Dennis. I never paid attention to the difference in the clip blades between the #73 pattern and lockback models before. The pics more than make up for the slightly disturbing thread title.:D
 
Danny, the blade on the 73s is what GEC calls a "skinner," otherwise known as a drop-point, like your avatar.
The clip definitely comes to a pointier point, which is about the only difference in usage, at least to me.

Good photo, Dennis, one of GECs better patterns, for sure.
 
Good grief!!...
That is one hell of a smart looking group of knives....my eyes are going from the stag on the left, then to the ebony, Once again Dennis...thank you so much for showing us these knives.
Dennis...the Ebony seems to be very brown in the photo....are all the Ebony knives in GEC like this...and is this a fault? or am I simply mistaken that good Ebony should be very dark to almost black??( I apologise if this sounds a silly question )
Duncan.
 
duncan everyone from waynorth, joebob, & black mamba wondered about the ebony. the old standard was jet black but my queries of ebony species are still unanswered. janka wood scale lists 10 ebonies with one that is white & black stripes. hardnesses vary from harder than aust. snakewood to about the same as hickory. madagascar & gaboon are two fairly common used ebonies.the only kat that i know whom can provide the answer is phillip dobson but i think he's on expedition now.we probably have some other xperts but they may not read this section.i know gerber used some madagascar ebony in 70s & 80s.
dennis
 
duncan i refreshed my info :13 types of ebony. here are some comparisons,brazil 3690--african 4050--madgascar, 2940--mex. 3620, jamacian 4250. our hickories of which there are several vary from 1800 to 2180. aus. snakewood is 4150.
dennis
 
I can't stop looking at the stag and ebony wharncliffe lockbacks. I feel a spontaneous Christmas present to myself happening. Thanks for the pictures Dennis.
 
They are all nice Dennis :thumbup: & look to be perfect for EDC knives :thumbup:
-Vince :)
 
Campbellclanman said:
Dennis...the Ebony seems to be very brown in the photo....are all the Ebony knives in GEC like this...and is this a fault? or am I simply mistaken that good Ebony should be very dark to almost black??( I apologise if this sounds a silly question)
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Actually, not a silly question. We are used to seeing ebony as being solid black, but that is the heart wood of the tree, IIRC. I've seen ebony from yellow to black in the same piece of wood, but what we are used to seeing is from only a portion of the wood from very old, slow growing African trees, which are probably endangered by now, or at least should be on a protected status.

Some instrument makers are using the striped ebony that can be very beautiful. I've seen beautiful Madagascar ebony that was dark charcoal with black stripes in it. There's even some stuff called "Texas Ebony" that is black, but I'm not sure what kind of tree it comes from.

BTW -- The local Wood World store is an amazing place. Makes me wish I had woodworking skills. :(
 
thanks joebob for the info i never considered that the same piece of wood could have so much variation. i should have remembered mesquite is very light on outer layer but the dark brown heartwood which makes the blades ring is much tougher. last week one texan mentioned that if you hogged mesquite with a chainsaw you could actually see sparks fly.
dennis
 
Ebony can be many things -- the traditional solid black ebony is usually either Gaboon or Ceylon ebony. However, there is a whole range of woods that are in the ebony family -- even the American persimmon is an ebony. Amusingly, for a while (perhaps still), after the market for persimmon for golf club heads dried up, persimmon was being shipped to Japan, where it was cut, given a pressure treatment to dye it black throughout, and then sold as ebony for fretboards (a lot of it sold to American instrument companies). Well, it is ebony. :rolleyes:
 
Most Gaboon ebony is jet black, although I have seen some that has a brown tinge. My first GEC was the 73 done for Cumberland Knife Works, and it is jet black, definitely gaboon ebony. My dogleg is like the other recent GEC offerings, a very dark brown. The other ebony that is frequently used is macassar, and it is nicely striped black and light brown. The newer GEC knives do not look like macassar, I think they just happened to get a load of gaboon ebony that is lighter than typical. Probably from one individual log.
 
They might actually be using African blackwood -- it's not an ebony, but it's "nearly black" and quite dense and stable (not cheap either). A very nice wood and a good ebony substitute, especially on knives - has a higher oil/resin content than the true ebonies.
 
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