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I love mailmen/women and postal office. Today especially here's haul from the eBay, baldeforums buy section and my GEC dealer Greg and nativelly bought knife. All came same day:
From up to down:
GEC toothpick #12, bloodred bone, flatground serial #12. Thank you Jeffrey for this one!! (now I got both saber ground and flat ground bloodred toothpicks)
GEC #66 Courthouse Whittler: Coconut Palm. I love GEC's wood offering, though I mainly have bough ebony. This is my first coconut palm and its quite stunning. Grain structure is unique. More pics later.
Rough Rider Gunstock barlow. Rough Rider never fails to impress me how much knife you can get with little bit money.
I take this one in bit closer inspection:
Colonel Coon Barlow: Now this is instresting. I bought this nativelly. Made in USA. 200 pieces limited run so it was told in the internet. Made in Queen's factories. Well, when I inspected it, I saw it definately was made queen: Spear point has exactly same profile as does my Queen Dan Burke Small Barlow mainblade. Exact same wedges and everything.
Gaps; Queen is quite notorious the gaps and the patchiness of production. This has two bigger gaps between back springs. I've seen worse from Queen though. Annoying but not enough for me to return the knife. And two smaller need point gaps between bolster and brass liner. Still not enough to bother me.
Bladeplay: Quite bit both blades. Few hits with rubber hammer fixed clip point and spear point is much better. I need to resupply grazy glue which I use to fix some minor blade plays and yes, it does work.
Finish: Finish however was first class for the bone handles- Stunning color, no fractures or anything like that. Blades finish was good, compareable with Case's. Even bevels mostly, some flat spot on edges. You may still want to sharpen them yourself.
It seems newest Colonel Queens are... Knives that you might want to inspect before buying it directly. Price is very comparable for Case's offerings and what Queen has to offer under its own name.
Fitting issues side: This is very nice user knife. If you can handle and choose best yourself, I am sure you can find some of the nicest knives. The smooth bone scales have stunning shade of color and pulls are smooth like any Queen I have copme accross so far.
My camera's battery died and till I get it recharged additional pictures need to wait. Sorry about that.
I love mailmen/women and postal office. Today especially here's haul from the eBay, baldeforums buy section and my GEC dealer Greg and nativelly bought knife. All came same day:
From up to down:
GEC toothpick #12, bloodred bone, flatground serial #12. Thank you Jeffrey for this one!! (now I got both saber ground and flat ground bloodred toothpicks)
GEC #66 Courthouse Whittler: Coconut Palm. I love GEC's wood offering, though I mainly have bough ebony. This is my first coconut palm and its quite stunning. Grain structure is unique. More pics later.
Rough Rider Gunstock barlow. Rough Rider never fails to impress me how much knife you can get with little bit money.
I take this one in bit closer inspection:
Colonel Coon Barlow: Now this is instresting. I bought this nativelly. Made in USA. 200 pieces limited run so it was told in the internet. Made in Queen's factories. Well, when I inspected it, I saw it definately was made queen: Spear point has exactly same profile as does my Queen Dan Burke Small Barlow mainblade. Exact same wedges and everything.
Gaps; Queen is quite notorious the gaps and the patchiness of production. This has two bigger gaps between back springs. I've seen worse from Queen though. Annoying but not enough for me to return the knife. And two smaller need point gaps between bolster and brass liner. Still not enough to bother me.
Bladeplay: Quite bit both blades. Few hits with rubber hammer fixed clip point and spear point is much better. I need to resupply grazy glue which I use to fix some minor blade plays and yes, it does work.
Finish: Finish however was first class for the bone handles- Stunning color, no fractures or anything like that. Blades finish was good, compareable with Case's. Even bevels mostly, some flat spot on edges. You may still want to sharpen them yourself.
It seems newest Colonel Queens are... Knives that you might want to inspect before buying it directly. Price is very comparable for Case's offerings and what Queen has to offer under its own name.
Fitting issues side: This is very nice user knife. If you can handle and choose best yourself, I am sure you can find some of the nicest knives. The smooth bone scales have stunning shade of color and pulls are smooth like any Queen I have copme accross so far.
My camera's battery died and till I get it recharged additional pictures need to wait. Sorry about that.
