Show off your favorite GECs!

[big monk]

Now on the Red stag 72...I didn't know they made one...I'm not a bit jealous.....

Bob[/quote]


They came out with the Red Stag #72 in early July,this year---it got scooped up ,pretty quick,_____before I got the """GEC Bug"""

[big monk]

[quote="vikingdog"]Wow Monk, there you go again! You and Gunstock Jack are spreading stag fever all over the place. Beautiful knives you've been showing. Are you carrying any of them?

I got this #72 Stag,un-serialized to carry,and really like it. It is slimmer than the #73, and it is easier to open.
,

[vikingdog]

Really nice piece Monk. I'd like one like that myself. I went back to the early pages in this thread and I see what you mean about Welder Bob and his stag collection. It's hard to look at his photos and not covet thy neighbor's goods!

[big monk]

Ken,I'll try to un-confuse you ---it's about like the difference between the Ford and the Lincoln""simply put"" if you'll notice the little extra,craftsmanship,in the Northfield,vrs. Tidioute,such as pinched bolsters,ringed bolsters,better scale materials ( Stag,Elk,Pearl,Buffalo Horn,Ram)---the Tidioute,is made just as well,just doesn't have the "'EXTRA"" options ________don't know about the Sunfish / Sleeveboard critters,someone else,will have to do some ""un-confusing"" for ya' on them_____________Monk

A Great Day Guys !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!_______________________ YUP pers if a mail-man brought them to me I would be happy... GOOD BUY.. big monk

Not sure if this is the right place to ask. So if this gets moved thats ok with me.

I have forgeten the diffrance between the Tidioute and the Norhfield UN-X-LD. lets take the sleevboard.

Both 3"
Both 1095 Carbon Steel Blades
Both nickel silver bolsters

Now is the BABY SUNFISH the same as the SLEEVEBOARD ?? (both 3" 2 blades)

Unconfused me please...

Ken

[justold52]

big monk Thank you I am un-confussed on that part now.

At one time I remember that one brand use SS and the other used 1095 HC I think.

[big monk]

Great Eastern uses 440C SS ( Great Eastern has the Acorn Shield )____________Tidioute & Northfield use the 1095 carbon steel _________There are three different lines of knives

[justold52]

KOOL that clears up my brain. Just hope I do not forget it again...

Safe to say then. I only have 2 SS GECs.

GEC 23 Pioneer Ivory Casien 2006 # 217 SS OPEN HOUSE.

GEC 23 Poineer Ruby Red Bovine 440SS 2009 4 1/2"

Ken

[WelderBob]

Ken, That Ivory Casien open house is sweet... ...no I'm not jealous...

Bob

[bloomingeek]

KOOL that clears up my brain. Just hope I do not forget it again...

Well...I hate to bring back some confusion, but here's a photo from GEC's new release
page showing a Great Eastern Cutlery #73 sporting the acorn shield and having a
1095 carbon steel blade.

Not sure about this new option, but there it is. Greg at TSA Knives has a very informative
blog entry with some info about this new option. (Thanks Greg.)

[knifeswapper]

Not to mention that #73 in the last picture is a fixed blade....

That is the first time they have strayed from the GEC Brand = Stainless rule (and I don't like it). But the rule still applies for folders (for now).

But, it is not really a science. Just learn the pattern numbers and what they look like; then all the numbers will generally make sense. But if they make more exceptions they will have to expand the numbering schema.

Brand - Frame - Master Blade Type - Number of Blades - Year Made

[justold52]

Well most like lee I will just put the info and knife in my wall safe and never use them. I have 6 more comming soon I am sure I will know then... ... and forget later.

But I do know if no accorn the its not SS its the good steel... OK then this EXCEPTION...

Ken

This is one I am waiting for.

Desription
"GEC 325109ECL Stag Line Lock 1095 CS 2009 4 1/2"""

[big monk]

The Mailman was kind enough to drop these off,today !!!!!!! These were my first single blade #73's and there really is not much differnce ( size wise ) in them and the #72 Lockback. The #73 pattern,has a droppoint/skinner main blade and the #72 pattern has the regular clip,main blade. I really like them both,with two blades and single blades. I do think ,I prefer the ""Long-Pulls"'___maybe a little easier to open,with those strong back-springs ??? And if I was carrying a two blade,maybe have a belt sheath.
Two of the 2009________735109BS____Burnt Stag___single blade
One of the 2010_______ 735210LPBS____Burnt Stag____two blades
One of the 2010_______735210LPGS____Genuine Stag___two blades

[cattaraugus57]

Just got my first one on Sat at the gun show!
very nice!

[WelderBob]

Hey Catt that's nice...you know it's hard to stop at just one...

Monk, I think your trying to corner the stag market...I better get busy...
I perfer the single blade myself, but I do carry the two balde sometime's
in a belt pouch. Great looking stag on all of those knives.....

Better go catch some fish to go with them beans....

Bob

[justold52]

cattaraugus57 Hello and welcome to the GEC Feast.
Kool one my first time seeing that handle. Whats it called?

Yuppers some kool 72s. Looks like I have to snag one of them some time. What you eating fish with your beans?

I can't afford the worms to catch a fish.


Here is one more I did snag. She has some YELLOW.

GEC 538210 Trapper Eggs&Hot Sauce Furtaker CS 2009 4 1/2"

[big monk]

Ken______fish & beans ain't bad once you get use to it ____that is a purrtty yellow egg knife,but I can't take nuthin' like that fishin' with me?? it would scare all my fishes away

Hey Cattaraugus57______do they call that jigging "'Gator Bone"" ??????saw another one,on e-bay,but it had a different blade,and color??

[big monk]

big monk Thank you I am un-confussed on that part now.

At one time I remember that one brand use SS and the other used 1095 HC I think.

Hey Ken______just got the official way to identify, blade steel on the GEC's______Check the Tang Stamp

Titusville Iron Works = Carbon Steel
Cyclops = Stainless Steel

[justold52]

WOW thats a gr8 way to remember also.

I am going to copy this to remind my when I need this.

Just hope I can remember where I put this IMPORANT info.

Thank you soo much for this INFO.

Here is one more I picked up and could not set her down.

She also cryed out take me home. So I did. I must be a softy when it comes to crying girls...

GEC 128109SAB Toothpick Stag #37 2009 4"



Ken

[knifeswapper]

big monk Thank you I am un-confussed on that part now.

At one time I remember that one brand use SS and the other used 1095 HC I think.

Hey Ken______just got the official way to identify, blade steel on the GEC's______Check the Tang Stamp

Titusville Iron Works = Carbon Steel
Cyclops = Stainless Steel

To further qualify:
Titusville Iron Works = 1095
Cyclops Steel Works = 440C

There are some 420SS special factory orders; but they do not have the Cyclops Steel Works tang stamp.

[big monk]

Safe to say then. I only have 2 SS GECs.

GEC 23 Pioneer Ivory Casien 2006 # 217 SS OPEN HOUSE.


Ken[/quote]

Hey Ken______that number "'# 217 SS"" Open House ____I'm thinking there were suppose to be 350 made,but only 10 were deemed saleable to the public ??? That's the total they list on the GEC web. site for the #23 pattern you've got a very rare knife my friend

[big monk]

This is the #735207EC pattern_________134 produced

[justold52]

Well that confused me too. #127 ?? (217 or 27)

Here is where I picked that number from.

I know this is my photo of my OPEN HOUSE knife. I was at the factory and picked up the last 2.

You can make this photo larger and look for your self.

I also have this photo of a GREEN 2006 knife I got but can't find the knife. ???

I am thinking I make a lot of errors in my knife records.

Perhaps I have been OLD for a long time????{it's the meds I am on).... to slow down the Allhimers thing....

Confussed Ken...

[big monk]

I read #217,just as you did



EDITED______on the second page of this thread,Classic Case,has an entire set of the #73's in a rainbow of colors,_____the 6 knife set, includes your green knife,KEN. As stated,only a few sets made at the GEC Open House

Thanks for the info,Boggs

[boggs]

Ohhhhh, my "Octogenarian Brothers" it might be time to put away all the sharp objects in a safe place..........Bark Moss Green is a jigged bone and these are acrylics which were made for a GEC Open House that consisted of six pieces........simple go back to pages 1 and 2 to see the set that was posted. Beasts me as to the colors and count......

[knifeswapper]

In 2006 they made 250 of each pattern/brand. So 250 Tidioute #23's; 250 Northfield #23's; 250 GEC #23's; then the same for #73's. They were a little under or a little over on some (that is why the non-serialized are so rare from 2006).

But since the serial numbers are for the pattern/brand, not the handles, it is understandable that you could have 11 knives late in a run that were high serial numbered. 2006 was the only year they were numbered like this.