Wish lists

[kamagong]

Forgive my rambling, but the thread about Great Eastern Cutlery got me thinking. GEC is a new company specializing in traditional knives, no small feat given that a lot of the old names are gone and most American manufacturers these days focus on modern designs. Because they are so new though they have a very limited product line. I don't know exactly how many models they have at the moment, but I do recall that not a single one piqued my interest. That got me to thinking, "If I ruled the world, what knife would I have GEC make?" The answer--a single blade, spearpoint barlow made with 1095 steel and sawcut bone handles. Sadly this design is missing from today's offerings. What about you guys? Is there anything you wish GEC would produce?

 

[jackknife]

Yeah, a barlow, a real traditional barlow like that would be good. And I'd want the saw cut scales to be left a tad rough, so as to be smoothed out by lots of handling over time. But I just may want a pen blade tucked in there someplace.

 

[Blues]

I've got to say that the Boker made Russell Barlows available currently are quite nice for an investment of about $25. I have one with antique green bone scales, spear master and pen blade. Carbon steel to boot.
Good walk and talk with half stops. Hard to beat unless you get the real thing or a custom.

 

[dkronholm]

2-blade single spring Congress, full size. black jigged bone. Maybe not as traditional as a barlow, but as we learned in another thread, Lincoln was carrying a congress (6 blade) at Ford theatre, so it looks like the congress is a pretty old pattern too?

My lack of choices for this pattern led me to get in line with Ken Erickson for one.... I am going for a spear main blade and a coping. It will be a light use letter/box opener, all around office knife. Queen makes a few 2-blade congresses now, but not in scale materials or blades that I like. I too wished I would have seen a GEC that was in a less outdoorsy pattern.

 

[Amos Iron Wolf]

Either a single, or trim twin blade, teardrop jack. Scales would either be smooth bone, or perhaps corn cob jigged. Steel would be either 1095 or D2 if they could deliver it actually profiled and sharpened well.