The GEC Production Database Thread

Here's another one I find interesting.
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Which led to this plot to try and show some correlations and trends...paints an interesting picture. What I see is the consistent rise in totals, materials and patterns when the company started out...then things peaked in 2011-2012 when they were making more knives than ever, at that point, and the most patterns and materials available that they would ever offer again. Moving forward, I think they realized they couldn't proceed at that rate and still have the quality they were looking for so they started offering fewer patterns and fewer materials but higher quantities. And that trend continued until now where it looks like they found their "sweet spot" of how many patterns to offer each year (and maybe how many they produce each year too) but they are still reducing the number of materials offerred at a decent rate.
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Nice charts! Thanks for including production numbers on all of my SFOs going back to 2006. A nice touch and much appreciated :thumbsup:
 
Stropping Young Lad said:
I know there are a couple users that have most or all of the Rendezvous knives. I know B B.F.U has the past 6 or so years.
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6 this year as long as everything goes right! I had access to a 2013 but didn't have the funds at the time.

waverave said:
Here is what I have for Rendezvous knives...was hoping someone could help fill in the highlighted fields. Was there a Rendezvous in 2008? Can anyone provide me the code for the 2018 Whaler?

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I'll inquire further when I'm up there, but I think that there was not a Rendezvous in the same sense that there is now in 2008.

I'm not even sure I'd consider the Rendezvous knives up until 2011 a necessary part of a Rendezvous Special knife collection.

But that may change in the future.

Stropping Young Lad said:
Yup, it’s got a pen secondary that opens from the opposite end.
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That is, if you've got herculean fingers...... I'm gonna ask if they can do anything to ease the pulls on mine at the Rendezvous this year.

waverave said:
A few updated charts with the 2018 numbers...
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You missed the 2013 Rendezvous knife. These charts are great though I really appreciate the work you put in.

black mamba said:
Matt and Darren, the first Dead Skunk was on the 2007 Northfield #53 Cuban, and was interesting for a couple reasons. One, there are very few Northfields in acrylic, and two, it was much more black originally. The newer ones have a lot more red in them.

2007 Northfield
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2008 Tidioute (far left)
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I've got a couple NF acrylics. The ones I have I like, but I do think the acrylic is more likely to have fitting quirks than you'd think being a synthetic.

I love your #53 (and other GEC Stockmen) collection!
 
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So I am carrying my #652111 in Black Gold Acrylic / Perylic today and decided to take a look and see how rare it is.

It isn't on the database or on GEC's production totals for 2011.

I called and Chris said to look in 2012 and 2013 as the parts knives are listed in the year of actual manufacture, not the year on the tang.

It looks like it was made as a run of parts knives in 2012. 14 knives, #652111, Black Gold Perylic.

It was purchased by my dad at the factory so it makes sense that it's a parts knife, but I didn't know that until now. Very cool!

Not sure if that's something you want to add to the database.
 
L.H.S said:
So I am carrying my #652111 in Black Gold Acrylic / Perylic today and decided to take a look and see how rare it is.

It isn't on the database or on GEC's production totals for 2011.

I called and Chris said to look in 2012 and 2013 as the parts knives are listed in the year of actual manufacture, not the year on the tang.

It looks like it was made as a run of parts knives in 2012. 14 knives, #652111, Black Gold Perylic.

It was purchased by my dad at the factory so it makes sense that it's a parts knife, but I didn't know that until now. Very cool!

Not sure if that's something you want to add to the database.
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Cool thanks! I will absolutely add this. I don't recall seeing any parts knife identification/info in the production totals. That would be something I'll need to further research if I want to capture all of them.
 
This is already in the database but I will add an identifier so we know it was a parts run :thumbsup:
 
waverave said:
Cool thanks! I will absolutely add this. I don't recall seeing any parts knife identification/info in the production totals. That would be something I'll need to further research if I want to capture all of them.
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Chris said she puts them in red on the production totals.

waverave said:
This is already in the database but I will add an identifier so we know it was a parts run :thumbsup:
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Ah, I probably missed it because I was searching for Black Gold Acrylic, since that's what my tube says.
 
L.H.S said:
Chris said she puts them in red on the production totals.
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Ah-hah!!! Good to know I can go back and identify all the parts knives now...quite a few of them actually if all the red items are parts knives.
 
L.H.S said:
I don't know that all knives in red are parts knives per se, I think there are also short runs in red.
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Cool thank you :thumbsup: I'll identify them as red vs parts knife, etc
 
I believe that some items in red are knives marked in earlier years, but not finished till later. Would that be considered a parts knife ? Even if all the parts were picked out at the time of conception.
 
hamsco said:
I believe that some items in red are knives marked in earlier years, but not finished till later. Would that be considered a parts knife ? Even if all the parts were picked out at the time of conception.
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I created a new attribute to identify the red items until I can better define what they were.

hamsco said:
Just to throw a curveball..... GEC has also made the kitchen knives. Paring and Steak. I use my "Slicer 1" everyday.

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I include all of the fixed blades they report in the totals. Otherwise pretty hard for me track all that stuff down :thumbsup:
 
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