Question about GEC #53 Cuban Castro - Why 4 wharncliffe blades on one knife?

[bonky]

Please excuse the tardiness and poor camera skills, but here a a few quick photos I took of one of my Castros:

I also have a few pictures of a couple of the Tuna Valley four-blade in stag, and can post later if anyone is interested.

 

[rma100]

Well RMA.......


I think it depends on whom you talk to....when Perry owned Tuna Valley you're right he considered the pattern a Cigar Stockman.....though when the Daniels got hold of the brand and dimpled the bolsters some how it became and was marketed as a Congress knife.....

I was always under the impression that what gave the Congress Pattern it name was the distinct "bent" frame. An old hillbilly explained the name to me this way,"It's just like Congress,plumb full of itself and just a little bent!".

 

[pertinux]

If Daniels considers that a Congress, I wonder what he will re-name the Queen patterns?

Tacticool folders?

Please excuse the tardiness and poor camera skills, but here a a few quick photos I took of one of my Castros:

So, it's real.

Wow.

Thanks for the pictures!

I was always under the impression that what gave the Congress Pattern it name was the distinct "bent" frame. An old hillbilly explained the name to me this way,"It's just like Congress,plumb full of itself and just a little bent!".

~ P.

 

[biglmbass]

I have never seen that before. I want it more than any words I could write to express it. Just fantastic selection of blades.

RG,

Regarding the Tuna Valley 4-blade stockman... Just so you know those are/were 440 stainless. I like them, but would like 'em better if they were carbon steel. I *think* I know of a source for a blood red bone version. Get in touch if interested.

 

[waynorth]

Thanks for the pictures Bonky and stelth.
Some blades are wharncliffes (it appears).
Was a knife ever produced that had 4 sheepfoot blades?
I am confused!:grumpy:

 

[bonky]

Not by GE, to the best of my knowledge.

 

[markpmc]

... I believe a single spring #53 with a big wharncliff/pen combo or a clip/coping model would fly off the shelves.

Isn't this what GEC has just released? The 53 T.K. Cuban single spring, Clip/Pen. I don't usually favour big knives but I'm seriously tempted....

Not really (for now). The pics of the #53 TK have Clip/Pen blade combos. I'm hoping that they decide to mate a 'flat' and a 'belly' blade in the same frame. One can always hope

 

[rma100]

Not really (for now). The pics of the #53 TK have Clip/Pen blade combos. I'm hoping that they decide to mate a 'flat' and a 'belly' blade in the same frame. One can always hope

They just did that on a 74 frame. 74 Saddle Trapper with clip/wharncliffe blades in a Trapper configuration.

 

[rockgolfer]

RG,

Regarding the Tuna Valley 4-blade stockman... Just so you know those are/were 440 stainless. I like them, but would like 'em better if they were carbon steel. I *think* I know of a source for a blood red bone version. Get in touch if interested.

Stainless, blah lol. I am with you now, good knife but would be great in some carbon. Thanks for the offer though on a possible :thumbup:. If it was wood I might of been tempted anyway

 

[Stelth]

I wouldn't have bought mine if it WASN'T in stainless. GEC 440c is good stuff.