Quick question on the GEC 48 pattern

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I have had several 48 patterns over the years, both Tidioute and Northfield. Right now I have a two blade 48 with a regular clip point and spey, a single blade 48 with a slender main blade, and a 48 Improved trapper. I really like the clip blade on the two blade 48, and would like to have that same style blade on a single. Did GEC make any of those? I don't have any side by side pics, but I can get some when I get home. The clip on the two blade version is wider, while it is almost a bird and trout knife on the single.
 
Hi Dan,

The 2 blade #48 you're talking about is a Western Trapper right? If so then no, GEC hasn't made a single blade #48 with the big clip. The big clip has only been used, so far, on the Western Trappers and the pre-DE #48 Jacks.

Here's a Western Trapper,


Here are some of the #48 Jacks. I had wanted the slim clip in the jack frame before Charlie had the DEs made so I had the main blades swapped on the lignum jack at the top.


Before:


After:


I believe there are still a few of the older jacks out there, specifically the green bone Tidioute like above and the Cherry Northfield like below. The pen blade on the jacks, like on GEC's other jacks, uses thinner blade stock so it would be thinner than a regular #48 trapper but just slightly thicker than a single blade one.
 
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Thanks Duane. It worked out better than I thought. Of course, both being #48 patterns, the blade/spring should have been mostly interchangeable.
 
Trand, is it a trick of lighting between the pics, or did the lignum vitae darken as it aged? It surely looks nice, I remember admiring it once before several months ago.
 
I think it's a little bit of both Russell. Probably also what ever oils/juices got on the wood. Here's another image that is somewhere in between when I took the jack pic and when I first got it.
 
Dan, not the #48 but the 2011 version of the #12 toothpick had that same wider blade in both the Northfields with long pull and the Tidioutes with nail nick.
Very similar pattern in hand, the 12 is only 1/8" longer than the 48, and the blades are the same. Earlier toothpicks had the narrower muskrat clip blade.

2011TP-1_zpsedf3a219.jpg~original


2011TP-2_zps5060b0f8.jpg~original
 
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