Your newest addition:traditionals of course!

LastRodeo said:
I received my ebony today also. I can confirm from my one example, GEC is doing it just as good as they ever have, at least pertaining to the #15. I don’t know where they are getting their ebony from, but it doesn’t get any better.
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im on the hook for a few more, so ill do my comparisons later on. but I agree, so far, just like the classics.
 
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Yesterdays train trip to Sydney took me aboard 3 different trains to get where I was going. :cool:o_O.I had to get on in Wollongong and go past the
hock shop near the station that is awash with a lot of clapped out junk and stuff. They have tools of every kind and musical instrument watches jewellery...and a lot of cheapo knives. These are kept in a cabinet that I call "mall ninjas r us".
I always have a quick look over the large curvy daggers,chinese knockoffs,overpriced rusty bayonets and SAKS ..this caught my eye and I asked the dude for a look. Close inspection revealed it to be a Japanese Montana Cutlery 440A 2 bladed (saddlehorn trapper??)with dark wood scales ,a beautiful bail and solid pick and tweezers.
I knocked him down by 20bux ...should have kept haggling.​
 
mrknife said:
these are the first two to the finish line!

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Jack, how do you compare the pull weight on these to earlier 15/TC runs, or other recent GEC runs? I've got a red and a black micarta clip on the way, and I'm curious. CK rated it as a 5, but a lot of the 5 pulls lately I would have called a 4.
 
traumkommode said:
Jack, how do you compare the pull weight on these to earlier 15/TC runs, or other recent GEC runs? I've got a red and a black micarta clip on the way, and I'm curious. CK rated it as a 5, but a lot of the 5 pulls lately I would have called a 4.
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they are all very close except the modded the ones. the glennbad mod is slightly heavier at maybe 5.5, the other modded one needs to be touched up at GEC. it was much lighter than before the mod.
 
2011 Primitive Bone Calf Roper #07

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Interestingly, the horizontal line that runs right through the middle of both covers is not a crack, but just a cessation of color. Maybe something laid across the bone that prevented it from soaking up the elements in the soil.
 
black mamba said:
2011 Primitive Bone Calf Roper #07

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Interestingly, the horizontal line that runs right through the middle of both covers is not a crack, but just a cessation of color. Maybe something laid across the bone that prevented it from soaking up the elements in the soil.
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Yes, beautiful covers!! :thumbsup:
 
This Tidioute 98 Texas Cattle Knife Red Linen Micarta arrived today! I have to say I am very pleased with this one. It arrived with a patina well done. More importantly, the pull was reasonable on this large knife, including the awl. I really like this style of awl, which both the 77 Harness Jack and the 54 awl model have, except with a really hard pull.

 
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