All About Pocket Knives

July 24th ,2019 KnivesShipFree will be selling a Northwoods Signal Jack at 4PM. Get signed up at KnivesShipFree and be ready.

Do you know what the handle choices will be ? All Micarta ?
kj

Probably the usual. Gone are the days when they used have a nice variety of covers from release to release.

kootenay joe wrote:Do you know what the handle choices will be ? All Micarta ?
kj

I read a Facebook post where Jay from Northwoods confirmed there would be no stag. Unfortunately he did not say what there would be.

Obviously the picture shows red micarta. My guess that there will be a few micarta choices, and there will be at least one from the following list:
Kudu, Giraffe, Mammoth (this is my order of likelihood).

Some things just aren't what they used to be, even if the 'used to be' was only 5 or so years ago.
kj

Five #93 Northwoods Signal Jack knives to choose from: red linen micarta , Burnt Sienna jigged bone , appaloosa bone , cocobolo wood ,and mammoth ivory

All About Pocket Knives SFO Allegheny #97

That's a handsome looking knife, I like the bone color and the jigging.

looks like a heavy duty rascal.

This A.A.P.K 2019 Club Knife #97 Allegheny is ready for shipping, or have they been shipped. Every knife has been halted for Rendezvous 2019. Special Rendezvous 'Store" knives are being made right now. Who knows what they have in store for this weekend. Everybody should go home with a special cool knife. PAY PAL - MINE IS ON THE WAY ! TWELVE+ KNIVES LEFT. "YOU SNOOZE ! YOU LOSE !"

The SFO Coffee house acrylic #29 stockyard whittler knives are finished and will be shipped out soon.

I made a #29 Snakewood pre-order with my GEC dealer 15 to 30 minutes after GEC posted the #29 schedule. Only half will be made and I was notified that my pre-order has been canceled , the day before the partial release.

Onearmbladejunkie wrote:I made a #29 Snakewood pre-order with my GEC dealer 15 to 30 minutes after GEC posted the #29 schedule. Only half will be made and I was notified that my pre-order has been canceled , the day before the partial release. 6577844999991.jpgIMG_9547.jpg6577844999991.jpgIMG_9547.jpg

I almost passed on the bloodwood yesterday In hopes that I could snag a Snakewood. Glad I didn’t let that one slip by me. The Snakewood is the one I really was hoping to get, and the stag, but that’s a pipe dream.

Sharpnshinyknives wrote:

Onearmbladejunkie wrote:I made a #29 Snakewood pre-order with my GEC dealer 15 to 30 minutes after GEC posted the #29 schedule. Only half will be made and I was notified that my pre-order has been canceled , the day before the partial release. 6577844999991.jpgIMG_9547.jpg6577844999991.jpgIMG_9547.jpg

I almost passed on the bloodwood yesterday In hopes that I could snag a Snakewood. Glad I didn’t let that one slip by me. The Snakewood is the one I really was hoping to get, and the stag, but that’s a pipe dream.

I bought the #29 Bloodwood yesterday. I used my bonus points and saved $20. Seth Borries of Southern Long-beard Knives won last weeks "Forged in Fire" show. I ordered a fixed "Karen" 5" harpoon clip "black hammered" blade with snakewood scales. He will start making it in November. When GEC fails , I'll still get my snakewood knife.

My first time trying to buy from The Knife Connection. I had a Snakewood in the cart but when I checked out it wasn’t there. Plus all the curly maples were marked “no stock”. Is this common on this site? I’m fed up with waiting until the appointed time and then having my cart emptied before I can check out. This isn’t the only site that does this, but it is this anyway to treat a customer? I mean seriously, how many lost sales would these companies have if they let people check out with the item they added to their cart instead of letting an item you have in your cart go to someone else? Given the high demand, I can’t imagine they would lose any sales. But continuing to treat customers like this will lose sales. I’m getting pretty turned off by this and wondering if it’s worth the frustration anymore?

Mark, i think many of us are frustrated by situations like you describe. I'm sure there are some who use their smart phones with instant messaging etc. and enjoy the challenge of trying to score a special GEC. I think the action mimics a video game and they enjoy the excitement of trying to score more than the knife won. And if they don't want to keep it, flip for a double and make a few hundred $$ every month.
I think the GEC/Northwoods brands have been somewhat taken over by gamers. The difficulty to obtain these knives is not all due to us old fart knife collectors trying to buy a new release. Gamer Invasion !
The #85 Bullet End Jack is a popular pattern, particularly those with an EO notch. They auction on ebay for over $350. But all the ones i have seen have a full flat grind on the Spear Point blade.
Here is 857116EO with smooth autumn gold bone handles and a full saber grind ('full' = both sides). It was an SFO for Mike Latham that i was fortunate to sign up for.
kj

I was lucky enough to get in on the early reserve for the CK 77 SFO. I chose the amber saw cut bone and I received it today. Pretty sweet if you ask me.

SWEET-

gsmith7158 wrote:I was lucky enough to get in on the early reserve for the CK 77 SFO. I chose the amber saw cut bone and I received it today. Pretty sweet if you ask me.

Definitely a sweet knife, congratulations.

Sw-weet bibi!
To bad i'm kinda' short on knife cash at the moment...working on gun (guns)...

Oh well, you kind of have to choose your hobbies while on fixed income . At least I can sell more woodworking tools for more GEC $$$...

Again sweet knife, and happy you got lucky this time. Next time mise-turn...

TSA knives SFO GEC#92 Eureka Jack Calico jigged bone . These scales look more like 2010 GEC #56 Antique weave jigged bone.

The TSA SFO knife has just been released .

"HEADS UP" Surprise release on American Whittler SFO GEC#29 Stockyard whittler in smooth "orange amber" bone ! I spotted this knife on You-tube yesterday.