Ray Rybar and Great Eastern Cutlery knife

[lenny357]

Check this Ebay auction out. Sounds like a nice find if your into GEC heavy, anyone have aditional info on this knife?
I did provide a Ray Rabar link here ----> http://rybarknives.com/index.html

Ebay-----> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... Track=true

[knifeswapper]

There are many opinions on SFO knives. This generally happens once a brand gains some popularity and you will start seeing more and more of them. Personally I don't go much for the SFO knives branded with some name I wouldn't normally collect anyway. Special variants are much more desirable (4 blade stockmans, for example) than the never-ending names people want to put on a knife to draw in collectors that feel they need one of everything.

Wait for the Brian Yellowhorse or Michael Prater at the $250 price tag.

JMPO

[muskrat man]

another JMPO here, if he is a ABS mastersmith why did he need GEC to make the knives?? A nice knife none the less

[jonet143]

what part of it did he design? look like the same profile and blade as the other gec knives.

[muskrat man]

what part of it did he design? look like the same profile and blade as the other gec knives.

my thoughts as well

[Hukk]

Sounds like all he did was to "Machine Forge" the blades with a Hydraulic drop hammer or an air hammer rather than stamp the blanks out. Looks the same to me, I'd like to see them do something different with that 3-3/4 inch frame - how about giving that frame a bit of a new shape and put a Warncliffe blade in there.

Looks to be the same knife, just manufactured it a little diferently. I'll pass, no news release either?

[lenny357]

I think they just droped his name on it. I thought it was weird because Ray dosen't really make knives of this type. I feel if my name was on something, I would want more of a foot print on it's design.

[gringo]

howdy...
i was in ray's shop yesterday...nice man.
i believe these knives are advertising pieces, though, while i meant to ask him about the GEC knife...i was sidetracked...
i do own one of the GEC knives...i can't make up my mind to use it or pass it on to some collector?

honest...this man is doing some fantastic metalwork.
i ended up trading him out of a blade blank, for a large skinning knife...i'll post up some pictures when i can.

http://rybarknives.com/

look it this workmanship...
http://www.rybarknives.com/bladespage.html

here is one of his tutorials.
http://paaba.net/Projects/ZRybardamascus.htm