Question in my brand new GEC Stockman...

The odd thing is, I find this very uncommon on Whittlers, the 'other' three blade knife. Stockman often display it unless uncrinked like Buck, it doesn't really matter on carbon due to patina, stainless can show scratching more profoundly but so long as the opening/closing is not impeded, it doesn't matter to me.

Thanks, Will
 
I don't have an 81 so not sure about how they are built or rub issues but I do have 3 66 Calf Ropers and none of them have any blade rub other than maybe very very mildly on the sheep & spey blade but you can't feel it can just see a minor scuff on the sheepsfoot blade. Patina easily hides it. Also the 66 Calf Ropers do not have krinked blades they use an extra brass liner on one side instead. They don't look krinked to me anyway if they are it must be extremely minor krink. I have a couple Boker, Old Timer, Colonial & had a Canal Street stockman and none of them had any blade rub issues other than like i mentioned with my gec's if you didn't pull straight up the spey can come into minor contact with the sheepsfoot. My dad had a Case that you had to force shut as the spey would hit the sheepsfoot and get hung up on it. You also had to pull over on the sheepsfoot to be able to open the spey as it would get hung up in the sheepsfoot nail nick. That was one of the worse I've seen and not acceptable rub. :)

Jake
 
could someone explain how the extra liner makes crinking avoidable on the #66? I have looked at other forum posts, but frustratingly, the photos from the photosharing site are no longer there.
I found with my 81 abilene, that there was no bladerub, which was pretty impressive, I generally expect blades to have some rub on a stockman.
 
fatcorgi said:
could someone explain how the extra liner makes crinking avoidable on the #66? I have looked at other forum posts, but frustratingly, the photos from the photosharing site are no longer there.
I found with my 81 abilene, that there was no bladerub, which was pretty impressive, I generally expect blades to have some rub on a stockman.
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It's talked about a little starting here, http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/1106022-GEC-Calf-Roper, in post #4. I think basically the extra liner just makes the space a little larger giving the two blades more room. The spey is also a little thinner and the tang of the sheepsfoot has been ground down a little to make room. There might be more to it than that but by looking at mine and reading other peoples posts I think that is how it's accomplished.

Jake
 
@jkulysses, thanks just the sort of thread I was looking for, and now I'm browsing dealers for #66s...:rolleyes:
 
Even if the blades don't touch at rest, they will often touch by you pushing the blade when trying to open the knife. It's pretty common. My Chestnut 6375 didn't rub for a long time, but it's starting to show a touch of rubbing.

The way to get by is to have a single spring for each blade.... I think the Buck 301 is like this. It just makes the knife a little bulkier.
 
Even if the blades don't touch at rest, they will often touch by you pushing the blade when trying to open the knife. It's pretty common. My Chestnut 6375 didn't rub for a long time, but it's starting to show a touch of rubbing.

The way to get by is to have a single spring for each blade.... I think the Buck 301 is like this. It just makes the knife a little bulkier.
 
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