The First Five Years! GEC!!!

[Will Power]

Travman How'd you managed to keep the dark/burnt look on yours. My identical (if Stag can ever be identical ) liner lock from '08 is a light butter colour it has very deep grooves mark side.

 

[JW225]

Here's one from 2008...

 

[Will Power]

This one just gets in under the wire 2011 56 Dogleg, Spear master. No.12 of 25. The Ebony on it is a bitter chocolate colour, espcially on this pile side, rather than Blackwood dark but it suits a Barehead.

 

[Heynowwww]

 

[knowtracks]

Couple of HJ's






Dave

 

[Johnnythefox]

I have this one,I love the little handwritten COA.

It’s so nice/historic I can’t bring myself to use it,I put it up for sale but no one seemed to want it.

 

[mrknife]

ooo they cant all be winners, some are fan favorites, some niche, some Bill will run once and probably never again

 

[Johnnythefox]

I have this one,I love the little handwritten COA.

It’s so nice/historic I can’t bring myself to use it,I put it up for sale but no one seemed to want it.

I thought the old ones were nail breakers and it put me of,this one is perfect and relativley easy to open.

Which models have the very strong pulls?

 

[mrknife]

I thought the old ones were nail breakers and it put me of,this one is perfect and relativley easy to open.

Which models have the very strong pulls?

supposedly the very early runs, 73s?

 

[knowtracks]

supposedly the very early runs, 73s?

Yes, the first runs in '06, the #23s and the #73s were made stout after the original Remingtons .

Dave

 

[Plantman]

Here are photos of a 2007 GEC 3-blade 53 Cuban and its tube. Wish I still had it!

 

[waynorth]

Here are photos of a 2007 GEC 3-blade 53 Cuban and its tube. Wish I still had it!

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Was a nice one!!

 

[Plantman]

I’ve posted this photo of my favorite stag knives on a couple of Facebook groups over the years. The two big fatties left center are a 73 and a 23. Both had blades stamped ‘06’ even though I believe they were produced in 2007. Sure wish I had held on to all of these knives.

 

[Johnnythefox]

Amazing set.

 

[mrknife]

Yes, the first runs in '06, the #23s and the #73s were made stout after the original Remingtons .

Dave

yet some where down the line, they weakened it on some models, waynorth some day we'll start the next 5 years

 

[Plantman]

This is the oldest GEC that I still own, a 25 barlow from 2008 that I purchased from Bill Horne at Cumberland Knifeworks. It also came with a separate COA. My dark photo doesn’t do the stag justice.

 

[Plantman]

Here’s a 25 from 2010 in Elk, which William told me came from a Pennsylvania herd. These knives - a spear and sheep’s-foot were featured photos in a 2010 newspaper issue of Knife World.

 

[waynorth]

Back in 2011, I asked Bill to try some Schrade-like Peachseed Jigging!! As far as I know, this is GEC's first!!View attachment 2354581View attachment 2354583View attachment 2354584

If it came to a vote, I'd say the peachseed above is/was the best Bill has ever done!!

 

[Hoffmajo89]

Not a great picture, I’ll have to remember to add some individual photos later on. Anyways, here are the three in my collection from the “first 5”.

A 61 Congress in stag from 2009, a 68 White Owl in Cocobolo from 2011, and a “GEC brand” 25 in stainless/elk from 2010.

 

[aji1]

I recently added this 2007 Smooth Cherry Bone 73EC to my collection! I actually purchased it from a kind soul here last September; he didn't want to ship overseas (I live in the Netherlands), but was willing to send it to my sister in Pennsylvania. I finally got to pick it up a couple of weeks ago. Tough to wait almost a year, but worth it in the end. It's a well made knife and I have trouble finding any flaws. The springs are very slightly sunken at the half stops, but that is the worst of it!