identify this knife?

Lisa · Post by **Lisa** » Sun May 13, 2007 4:57 am

I am not able to show a picture of it but I will describe as much as possible. Blade is pen shape, the handle has different material inlaid such as gold designs I can't make out and it is ontop of a green backround on one side.On the other is a picture in gold of a bull with his enemy in silver holding a red flag.This scene is on top of a green backround. The stamp on the blade reads G.C.CO. stainless japan. On the other side is a number that says 131. It has a bail. Can anybody tell me about this knife?

jonet143 · Post by **jonet143** » Sun May 13, 2007 5:33 am

sorry, not enough info.

Lisa · Post by **Lisa** » Sun May 13, 2007 7:31 am

re Johnnie f
What other information is needed? I will do my best to supply it.

justold52 · Post by **justold52** » Sun May 13, 2007 8:53 am

Lisa The best thing I can do to help you here at AAPK. is SEND it to me I will take a photo for you and then the pro's here will see it.

O by the way

to AAPK too.

Lisa · Post by **Lisa** » Sun May 13, 2007 12:14 pm

To justtold
How about you give me your email instead or cell that can view pictures and I will try to send you a phone taken picture. It will probably be hideous but it might help

Hukk · Post by **Hukk** » Sun May 13, 2007 1:34 pm

You can send pictures to hukkfinn@sbcglobal.net and I will post them for you. Good Luck!

justold52 · Post by **justold52** » Sun May 13, 2007 1:45 pm

Thanks Hukk
I sent Lisa my E-mail but I would not know how to do it after I got it.

I hope she sends it to you now.

I must be getting old

...I for got to ask if Lias is a Red Head.

Hukk · Post by **Hukk** » Sun May 13, 2007 1:57 pm

justold52 wrote:Thanks Hukk
I sent Lisa my E-mail but I would not know how to do it after I got it.
I hope she sends it to you now.

No Problem, I did not see an email address, so I threw mine out there. Either way, glad to be of any help. Need help in that area? I would be happy to walk you through it. I will be out at the shop all day, today, God willing that is.

Fess up time: Need surgery on June 14. Re-tore right rotator cuff and torn the bicep tendon away from the bone, partially. These hurt a mite, so, I can go until the afternoon before I take meds. If I start to sound goofy, now you know why. It's the Oxycontin Flexeril cocktail. I believe it happened when I locked myself out of the house (5 Hours until my good wife came home) and had to hop a 7 ft fence, twice.

UUUUUHHHH, I gotta start acting like I'm 51, not 21.

Oh well, It can be fixed

orvet · Post by **orvet** » Sun May 13, 2007 4:18 pm

Hukk my friend, everything falls apart after 50!

Just in my case I started to fall apart at 29. I have spent the last 26 years falling apart.

I have had 19 or 20 surgeries in those 26 years.

When they went into fix my rotator cuff, they found the biceps tendon was frayed more than 50% so they just cut it. They say the only way it really has a great effect on you is in the motion of twisting a screwdriver. So I have four or five cordless screwdrivers as well as several corded ones.

Friday I had to go get cortisone shots in the two lower joints of my right thumb........MAJOR OUCH

I won't be doing much with my hand for a couple more days. It is a good thing I have NaturallySpeaking to do my typing for me.

With age comes wisdom (hopefully for most of us). I think by the time your 50 you should be wise enough not to do all the stupid things you did when you were in your twenties that left your body in the shape it is now!

I guess though if we had the wisdom of our fifties when we were in our twenties, we would have never taken the risks that we took, that made us the people we are today.
In some cases that a good thing, in some cases it isn't.

I hope you get better soon my friend,
Dale

MITCH RAPP · Post by **MITCH RAPP** » Sun May 13, 2007 4:36 pm

Hukk, Orvet; I'am with you guys. When I'am at work I always think

like a 20 year old but my body responds like a 50 year old.

It's

always hard to know one's limitations but when your sore or injured the

next day, you learn real fast!

Hukk · Post by **Hukk** » Sun May 13, 2007 4:47 pm

orvet wrote:I hope you get better soon my friend,
Dale

Thanks Dale. I managed to push it out to the 14th so my son will be here until the 17th. It will give us some good quality time. I'm just glad it is not going to be on June 5th. They will have me go in as the first patient because it will take about 2 to 2 1/2 hours. Time will go by fast for me, my wife and son, well, they will likely think it is a long time.

justold52 · Post by **justold52** » Sun May 13, 2007 7:32 pm

Hukk sorry to hear you are going under the KNIFE again.
Do you have a Mother of Pearl to give the DR. before you go in ?
This is really not good to joke about sorry. I was just getting to

at you attitude again. I hope you have a FAST recovery. ..

...Every time I go under the knife I come out not the same. Some thing just does not work like it is supposed to.

MITCH RAPP · Post by **MITCH RAPP** » Sun May 13, 2007 7:44 pm

Hukk; Should have mentioned in my previous post Good Luck and God

Bless on your up coming surgery, my friend!

jonet143 · Post by **jonet143** » Sun May 13, 2007 8:57 pm

hey lisa, did a little research and came up with:

g.c. co. is gutmann cutlery co. brand names include g.c.co., explorer, edge. the company, located in mount vernon, n.y. was a wholesale importer of cutlery from germany, japan and some u.s. as well. they began in 1947 - present.

Hukk · Post by **Hukk** » Sun May 13, 2007 11:54 pm

MITCH RAPP wrote: Hukk; Should have mentioned in my previous Good Luck and God

Bless on your up coming surgery, my friend!

Thank You very much. Well, let's see, I'm 51 and never turned down a challenge (

yeah, stupid). It was always, "I bet you can't do this or that, bet you can't climb that hill with your back pack and carrying your rifle". I hiked to that spot a couple years ago with my wife, I looked at it, and thought,

NO WAY

, that's a 60 to 75 degree hillside of loose dirt and roots.

I always did it my way, doesn't mean it was the best or easiest way

Sheesh, now that I'm older and wiser, I don't carry anything heavier than a telephone pole

, that is a 1/2 of one. Lets see, 2 knee surgeries, 2 ankle surgeries, right forearm had an old torn tendon that was dead, and I had a right rotator cuff with 2 other muscles I can't spell or pronounce and a bone spur not quite an inch long. Now I have torn the rotator cuff again and detached the bicep tendon. That makes the 7th surgery in 2 1/2 years.
I may have had a great time doing almost any outdoor activity one could imagine to the extreme and now I'm hurting a little.
Would I do it again if I knew what the future held? YES, I have lived an extreme life, I have so many stories that I can't even begin to tell my son in a 2 week visit (he will be here June 3).

You may think I'm crazy, but I've seen many things that one would never expect to see in a lifetime, let alone a whole list of these. I have a lot of moments to cherish and I'm NOT nearly done yet. But, I will tone it down a bit. Most of these injuries I've had a long time and just ignored them. But they are to the point now where I feel the pain, and I will get better.
Thanks, for your kind words!

I'll BE BACK!

Lisa · Post by **Lisa** » Mon May 14, 2007 2:54 am

jonet143 wrote:hey lisa, did a little research and came up with:

g.c. co. is gutmann cutlery co. brand names include g.c.co., explorer, edge. the company, located in mount vernon, n.y. was a wholesale importer of cutlery from germany, japan and some u.s. as well. they began in 1947 - present.

Hey Thanks Johnnie,Do you happen to know if there is a web site for that company?

jonet143 · Post by **jonet143** » Mon May 14, 2007 3:09 am

i googled gutmann cutlery. they now seem to handle less expensive import knives. since 1995 they are located in bellingham, wa.

Lisa · Post by **Lisa** » Mon May 14, 2007 3:17 am

jonet143 wrote:i googled gutmann cutlery. they now seem to handle less expensive import knives. since 1995 they are located in bellingham, wa.

Thanks for the info
I sent 2 pictures -terrible ones to someone named hukkfinn to post anyway.

jonet143 · Post by **jonet143** » Mon May 14, 2007 3:35 am

cool, hukk will post em for ya.

Lisa · Post by **Lisa** » Mon May 14, 2007 1:47 pm

jonet143 wrote:cool, hukk will post em for ya.

Where should I look for them on the site?

jonet143 · Post by **jonet143** » Mon May 14, 2007 2:21 pm

probably in this thread.

Hukk · Post by **Hukk** » Mon May 14, 2007 3:32 pm

Lisa wrote:
jonet143 wrote:i googled gutmann cutlery. they now seem to handle less expensive import knives. since 1995 they are located in bellingham, wa.
Thanks for the info
I sent 2 pictures -terrible ones to someone named hukkfinn to post anyway.

Please Resend, I found a couple in my spam filter (?) and they are gone. I had forgotten about the knives sorry. (memory is not my strong point)

Lisa · Post by **Lisa** » Tue May 15, 2007 1:54 am

Hukk wrote:
Lisa wrote:
jonet143 wrote:i googled gutmann cutlery. they now seem to handle less expensive import knives. since 1995 they are located in bellingham, wa.
Thanks for the info
I sent 2 pictures -terrible ones to someone named hukkfinn to post anyway.
Please Resend, I found a couple in my spam filter (?) and they are gone. I had forgotten about the knives sorry. (memory is not my strong point)

Ok I will resend it will show as a forward from dl87@optonline
almost forgot- Good luck with your surgery

Hukk · Post by **Hukk** » Tue May 15, 2007 2:41 am

Here are the pictures. Hard to make out, they were taken by cell phone.

jonet143 · Post by **jonet143** » Tue May 15, 2007 2:50 am

thanks hukk.

sorry lisa, really can't tell much about it. it's a swinguard, probably an inexpensive jap import knife. some jap knives are high quality some are'nt.