GEC Woodies

[Wood-Guy]

#74s

[Wood-Guy]

#55 houndstooth in liner lock. Wharncliffe and spear blade.

[Wood-Guy]

#56 in snake wood and bocote.

[Wood-Guy]

#76 outlaw jack in cocobolo and bocote.

[Wood-Guy]

Some #33 conductors... Ebony, ancient kauri, and blood wood.

[Wood-Guy]

Finally got around to shooting some more pics... More to come later. Enjoy!

[Wood-Guy]

Some #68s... buckaroos in blood wood and cocobolo wood, white owls in exotic Mexican bocote, snakewood in clip blade and spear, ebony wood, walnut wood (stainless)

[Wood-Guy]

Some #66s BJMs in cocobolo wood and ebony wood, calf roper in cocobolo rosewood, serpentine jack in ebony, mink skinner in ebony wood with smooth shield, beavertail jigged bubinga wood, #56 weaver jacks in cocobolo wood, lace wood & ebony wood EO.

[Wood-Guy]

#16 canoes in ebony wood, tulip wood, blood wood, cocobolo wood, rosewood, snakewood.

[Wood-Guy]

Finally got around to shooting some pics of the rest of the collection...
Hopefully they came out alright... Had some cloud cover so hopefully not to much reflection.
Here goes...
#64sglb in Che Chen rosewood & king wood
#33 conductor whittlers in African blackwood & snakewood
#81 coon skinners in Che Chen rosewood, zericote wood, dark king wood, ebony wood, jigged Brazilian cherry wood, & cocobolo wood
#79 Montana workhorse whittlers in red curly maple & blonde curly maple
#12 toothpick & powderhorn jack in snakewood
#53 Cuban & stockman snakewood 2007, snakewood 2011, & ancient kauri wood
#73 Mexican bocote wood 2009, snakewood scout 2007, ebony wood "orphan" 2012 production
#72 jigged Brazilian cherry wood, spear blade ebony wood, clip blade ebony wood, wharncliffe ebony wood "northfield"
#66 jack snakewood
#48 single blade snakewood
#92 eureka jacks in Che Chen rosewood, & snakewood
#56 reverse dogleg jack snakewood
#61 & #62s snakewood (deluxe, easy pocket, etc)
#62 maverick in king wood, & ebony wood.
Sheesh! done!

[IMBand]

AWESOME!!!

IM

[Wood-Guy]

Thanks IM! Glad you like em'.

[big monk]

AWESOME !!!!AGAIN !!!!!!

[Wood-Guy]

Thanks Monk! Now I guess it's time to regroup them all and put them together...
Reorganize and organize the list...

[Gunstock Jack]

Very nice Ryan, congrats!

[Wood-Guy]

Thank Barry! A lot of tracking down on some of those.

[biglmbass]

Great showing, Ryan.

[Wood-Guy]

Thanks blmbass!

[jon_slider]

Finally got around to shooting some pics of the rest of the collection...
wood, &

Fantastic Show!

May we see that one half open please?

[Wood-Guy]

Finally got around to shooting some pics of the rest of the collection...
wood, &

Fantastic Show!

May we see that one half open please?

Ill see what I can do... I will try to get that done tomorrow night?
Thanks!

[jon_slider]

Im still catching my breath after starting to go through your pics Wood Guy.. dont mean to add to your Honeydew patch

meanwhile, some Mpingo Wood

[Wood-Guy]

Im still catching my breath after starting to go through your pics Wood Guy.. dont mean to add to your Honeydew patch

meanwhile, some Mpingo Wood

By all means Jon... that's a new wood I've never seen before, custom?

[jon_slider]

> that's a new wood I've never seen before

its GEC's African Blackwood, arguably the original Ebony, before Macassar and Gabon claimed the category.

more info here:
http://www.blackwoodconservation.org/tree.html

and another photo, Gabon Spear on left, Mpingo Sheep on right



The Mpingo is slicker and smoother than the Gabon, to the touch. Almost impossible to see any difference in the photo, but the Mpingo is glossier, closer to glass. The Gabon feels dryer and tackier to the touch, and is a bit more matte in finish. Both Mpingo and Gabon are equally black and have similar pore structures. Neither of mine have the brown streaks more common in the Macassar.

[Wood-Guy]

Gotcha, that makes sense. I have some of the African blackwood, and one or so of the Gabon ebony & and a ton of the Macassar. I like the light streaks highlights, the darker ebony is new to me so I guess it's still growing on me. there's a lot of varieties of wood out there.

[jon_slider]

> there's a lot of varieties of wood out there

There sure are, and you have some real beauties. This time around I was hoping to avoid Acrylic stabilized woods. I think the Blackwood is natural, as well as the Ebony, but Im not positive. In my limited search, the only wood that is consistently listed as not needing stabilization is the Desert Ironwood, but opinions vary.

Here is one offsite discussion about stabilization http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showt ... stabilized

The Walnut on the current Charlows is stabilized in house by GEC. I chose to pass on the material, because I wanted to avoid a plasticized handle, even though the material is very beautiful and durable.

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