The City Stock!!!

waynorth waynorth - nicely done. I thought it would be even larger for some reason (not that it’s small at all). The jigging is beautiful, wow. Consistent pulls on both the main and secondary blades. I would put the pull ~ a 5. The back spring is completely flush in the open and close position. Absolutely no gaps. It already has a pleasant “pocket worn” feel to it. Really nice!🤩


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JOELSM said:
waynorth waynorth - nicely done. I thought it would be even larger for some reason (not that it’s small at all). The jigging is beautiful, wow. Consistent pulls on both the main and secondary blades. I would put the pull ~ a 5. The back spring is completely flush in the open and close position. Absolutely no gaps. It already has a pleasant “pocket worn” feel to it. Really nice!🤩


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That looks great! Might be the best Waynorth tang stamp yet. I see what you mean about the pocket-worn look. I appreciate the perspective regarding the size - I think with the BF 2024 stockman on the way, the size of the City Stock will fill a nice role.
 
JOELSM said:
waynorth waynorth - nicely done. I thought it would be even larger for some reason (not that it’s small at all). The jigging is beautiful, wow. Consistent pulls on both the main and secondary blades. I would put the pull ~ a 5. The back spring is completely flush in the open and close position. Absolutely no gaps. It already has a pleasant “pocket worn” feel to it. Really nice!🤩


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Absolutely beautiful piece, traditional pocket knives don’t get much better than that.
 
robbobus said:
These look amazing. I've been meaning to find an old Gutman era Hen and Rooster "City stock" I have in my collection and finally found some time to dig through and find it.
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Thanks for posting that CS!! Not the most common knife!!
 
Fixall said:
I just don’t understand why GEC doesn’t do jigging like this on a regular basis. As much as I love Great Eastern Cutlery knives, I’ve always felt the jigging on their bone knives was by far their weakest point.

But this…. This is just magnificent!
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And I think Queen (Bill Howard days) made all the Winchester knives, and the Winchester knives all have that awesome jigging (Robeson or Rogers style?), in fact every modern Winchester knife has what I consider the best jigging style.

My guess is that Rogers or Robeson style jigging is very labor intensive and that is why it is not done very often by GEC and why the knives that have it cost more.
 
Fixall said:
I just don’t understand why GEC doesn’t do jigging like this on a regular basis. As much as I love Great Eastern Cutlery knives, I’ve always felt the jigging on their bone knives was by far their weakest point.

But this…. This is just magnificent!
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If they did it all the time, then it wouldn't be special. It'd be boring having gorgeous jigged bone for every cover of knife that GEC put out. Pretty soon you'd wish for something special like some jigged Richlite or some smooth Agate RSVP or whatever they're calling paper micarta nowadays.
 
JOELSM said:
waynorth waynorth - nicely done. I thought it would be even larger for some reason (not that it’s small at all). The jigging is beautiful, wow. Consistent pulls on both the main and secondary blades. I would put the pull ~ a 5. The back spring is completely flush in the open and close position. Absolutely no gaps. It already has a pleasant “pocket worn” feel to it. Really nice!
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Glad you like it!! Thanks for all the pictures!!
 
Elgatodeacero said:
And I think Queen (Bill Howard days) made all the Winchester knives, and the Winchester knives all have that awesome jigging (Robeson or Rogers style?), in fact every modern Winchester knife has what I consider the best jigging style.

My guess is that Rogers or Robeson style jigging is very labor intensive and that is why it is not done very often by GEC and why the knives that have it cost more.
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It’s my understanding that the jigged bone for the Winchester black box knives made by Queen was actually new old stock from one of the old US knife factories -which one escapes me this morning.
 
GaiusJulius said:
It’s my understanding that the jigged bone for the Winchester black box knives made by Queen was actually new old stock from one of the old US knife factories -which one escapes me this morning.
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I want to say Utica and I want to say they made some reproduction bone themselves as well for the later/larger ones. But yeah, that’s definitely why they have such good jigging and dye.
 
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