Slimline Trappers - elegant and yet practical

Yeah, a lot of nice #48s came out right around the same time. The order was GEC's Improved Trappers, Western Trappers, SFO Diamond 2 blade jacks, SFO Improved Trappers, SFO African Blackwood single blade, and then SFO Diamond 1 blade jack in about a 3 month period. I just told my budget I'd make it up to it ;)

A GEC Elk 440C was my first GEC ever :) Short and stubby compared to the #48s but I'll always keep it. The Elk doesn't have the deep popcorn texture of some stag but it can be there (very shallow). I think the streaked stuff that looks a lot like ivory can be some of the prettier pieces. Here are the mark and pile sides of elks. A lot of times you get a mix of shallow popcorn/valleys with streaks/cracks (not actual cracks, just they look like it)

 
It's like wildebeest all breeding at the same time - the sheer number of calves overwhelms the predators. They can only eat so many at once. :) GEC is like feast or famine for me. There are some of their patterns I love (like the 48s) and some I don't care for. But when they do a run, they do like 15 variations (including SFOs) of the pattern, and you don't always know what all is coming.

As to the Elk - I like the looks of fat, popcorn stag, but for actual use and carry I like relatively smooth, *evenly matched* not excessively fat stag. The elk looks like the perfect example of that, especially with the end caps because it has to be smoothed out at both ends.

Those examples you have there are outstanding.
 
Slim line trappers and toothpicks... my favorites

Case Slim Line Bare Head




PJ Tomes MS (in my pocket for the last week or so)


 
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