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Here is a very nice #92, single blade from 2014. I find the overall design 'flow' here to be most attractive. I really like this knife.
I have a 92, two blade from 2013 that i carry sometimes. Both have a spear point blade but note the single blade knife has a more narrow spear point.
Wonder why the same blade was not used for both ? Maybe GEC wanted the single blade to look a bit more 'refined', less outdoorsy robust ?
But i am not complaining. I really like this 922114 exactly how it is.
kj

That's a very nice acquisition. A great pattern.

I just noticed that I failed to post this 93 Ram Foot. With all the hubbub of the first one getting stolen off my front porch and thanking dweb1897 (Doug) for the replacement he so kindly provided, this post just got lost in the shuffle. This bad boy is out-bloody-standing.

Received one of the new 77 Barlows, 1 of 15 in no snake snakewood, made at the end of the run with leftover parts.

JohnR wrote:Received one of the new 77 Barlows, 1 of 15 in no snake snakewood, made at the end of the run with leftover parts.

For No Snakewood that looks pretty good.

FarSide wrote:

JohnR wrote:Received one of the new 77 Barlows, 1 of 15 in no snake snakewood, made at the end of the run with leftover parts.

For No Snakewood that looks pretty good.

Thanks, I thought so too. I was expecting plain and was pleasantly surprised.

That's a mighty fine looking barlow there John .

I recently found this GEC Congress on eBay. My primary reason for adding it to my collection was it's name, "Grandma's Kitchen Floor" and how much it looked like my own Grandmother's floor back in the day. I remember listening to Gene Autry on my new record player (oh, no! I sound like Joe Biden!) and for whatever reason staring at the floor as I sung along. I haven't thought about that since it happened 60 years ago and the memory was well worth the price of the knife.

Nice knife and a fine memory. Thanks for posting it , Log.
kj

Thanks KJ, she was a fine woman. Salt of the earth kind.

Log Cabin Knives wrote:I recently found this GEC Congress on eBay. My primary reason for adding it to my collection was it's name, "Grandma's Kitchen Floor" and how much it looked like my own Grandmother's floor back in the day. I remember listening to Gene Autry on my new record player (oh, no! I sound like Joe Biden!) and for whatever reason staring at the floor as I sung along. I haven't thought about that since it happened 60 years ago and the memory was well worth the price of the knife.

Did you know they only made five #61's with those handles? As far as I'm concerned, they could do it again. I like it.

Hi Jerry, I haven't figured out how to do that copy and paste thing everybody does to answer a specific question on the page yet, so bear with me....... To answer your question "Did you know they only made five #61's with those handles? As far as I'm concerned, they could do it again. I like it." .......I went to GEC's site and saw that only 5 were made, but the tube says a total of 27 were made and this one is number 17. I've always found the GEC site to be accurate and have referenced it many times. What's your (or anybody else's) best guess for the discrepancy? Thanks, Rich

Log Cabin Knives wrote:Hi Jerry, I haven't figured out how to do that copy and paste thing everybody does to answer a specific question on the page yet, so bear with me....... To answer your question "Did you know they only made five #61's with those handles? As far as I'm concerned, they could do it again. I like it." .......I went to GEC's site and saw that only 5 were made, but the tube says a total of 27 were made and this one is number 17. I've always found the GEC site to be accurate and have referenced it many times. What's your (or anybody else's) best guess for the discrepancy? Thanks, Rich

See that little box up in the right hand corner of your post? Click on that and you will get what shows above. You can delete what ever you want to in between the brackets on quote="Log Cabin Knives"]and [/quote. Note I had to drop the leading bracket and the trailing bracket in order to keep it from bringing up the quote of "and". Play with it. You can't break it. Make sure you use the "Preview" to make sure you have what you think you've done before clicking "Submit".

As far as your knife being one of five, that's what it says in the 2009 Production Totals for the #613409. It doesn't show anymore made. Just the five from the "Factory Test Run". Those "Production Totals" are all we have to go on. ---► http://greateasterncutlery.net/blog/wp- ... ev-3-8.pdf

Dead Skunk
28 pcs. Unserialized

Tiger Lily
17 pcs. Unserialized

Looking Glass Black Pearl
13 pcs. Factory Test Run

Looking Glass Sand
2 pcs. Factory Test Run

Looking Glass Grandma’s
Kitchen Floor
5 pcs. Factory Test Run

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Thanks, I think I got it......kinda

Still find it odd that I have number 17 of supposedly only 5 made.

There have been omissions and mistakes in GEC's Production Totals. What is written on the tube(v. early GEC's) or cap, is correct. With so many patterns and so many handle & blade options it seems inevitable that some of the numbers entered are not correct.
kj

You missed the [/quote] at the end of the quote

Log Cabin Knives wrote:Thanks, I think I got it......kinda

Still find it odd that I have number 17 of supposedly only 5 made.

You're not all by your lonesome. I also find that odd. In spite of all that, it is a very handsome knife.

YOU WOULD THINK THAT IF IT WAS #17 OF ANY RUN, THAT 17 WOULD BE ETCHED/STAMPED ON THE BOLSTER. ALL THE SERIALIZED KNIVES I HAVE ARE NUMBERED. I THINK THE LABEL IS WRONG, BUT WHAT DO I KNOW.

Log Cabin Knives wrote:Hi Jerry, I haven't figured out how to do that copy and paste thing everybody does to answer a specific question on the page yet, so bear with me....... To answer your question "Did you know they only made five #61's with those handles? As far as I'm concerned, they could do it again. I like it." .......I went to GEC's site and saw that only 5 were made, but the tube says a total of 27 were made and this one is number 17. I've always found the GEC site to be accurate and have referenced it many times. What's your (or anybody else's) best guess for the discrepancy? Thanks, Rich

jerryd6818 wrote:As far as your knife being one of five, that's what it says in the 2009 Production Totals for the #613409. It doesn't show anymore made. Just the five from the "Factory Test Run". Those "Production Totals" are all we have to go on.

kootenay joe wrote:There have been omissions and mistakes in GEC's Production Totals. What is written on the tube(v. early GEC's) or cap, is correct. With so many patterns and so many handle & blade options it seems inevitable that some of the numbers entered are not correct.
kj

To further complicate matters, I suspect that there may exist a fairly significant number of knives from the early (Daniels family) years of GEC that didn’t have any packaging or paperwork and don’t show up in the published production totals.

One of the last knife shows where I had a dealer’s table was held during the latter half of 2008 in a convention centre on the side of Interstate 71 near Wilmington, Ohio. Ryan Daniels was set up at this show representing Great Eastern Cutlery. During the course of the show, Ryan tried to convince me that we should sell GEC knives in our shop. When I stopped at Ryan’s tables to talk to him on the final day of the show, I noticed that he had five or six 3-bladed cattle knives with snakewood handles lying loose in the corner of one of his showcases. At the time, I had a fascination with snakewood and asked him about these knives. They were GEC (acorn shield, stainless steel blades) #538308 “Cuban Stockman” knives with no serial numbers. Ryan told me that these #53s were overruns from a special production run and as such were being sold without serial numbers or tubes. I picked out four of these knives to purchase. Ryan quoted me a decent price for the knives and told me they were being sold “cash only – no receipt” for “sales tax reasons”. I returned to my table, pulled a copy of my vendor’s license and a blanket Certificate of Exemption from my briefcase, handed these papers and the agreed upon amount of money to Ryan, and asked for a receipt for my purchase. Oddly enough, Ryan was unable to find his receipt book and alleged that he would mail the receipt to our store. I never received a receipt. I’ll let the reader draw their own conclusions as to why these knives were sold in this manner.

According to the 2008 Production Totals page on Great Eastern Cutlery’s website, a total of thirty-three snakewood-handled #538308s were produced in 2008—all were serialised. According to GECs Christine Tucker, the knives that I purchased from Ryan should never have existed. I subsequently sold two of the four knives; the other two still reside in my collection. In the past several years, I have noticed that a few of these non-serialised snakewood GEC #538308s have shown up on both eBay and the AAPK Store—in every case that I have seen the seller noted that the packing tube was missing.

http://greateasterncutlery.net/blog/wp- ... ALS-21.pdf

TLDR:
During the early years of Great Eastern Cutlery, knives may have been sold by GEC owners or employees that were incorrectly packaged and do not appear in GEC’s “official” production totals.

I got this one in today and while it is a nice knife as far as fit and finish , snap and other goodies I just can't warm up to most of these Tidioutes. They just look plain and bland . I will be on the hunt for a stag Northfield.

I agree Greg, the knife does not have any 'instant appeal'. Also the red is too 'bright', almost a 'neon' look or like a red licorice stick. Some of the Tidioutes do look great in their 'plain-ness', those with uniform black ebony come to mind.
Did all of the red jigged bone come out as bright a red as yours ?
kj

Mine doesn’t look that red at all, mine are more of a maroon color and I really like it.

kootenay joe wrote:I agree Greg, the knife does not have any 'instant appeal'. Also the red is too 'bright', almost a 'neon' look or like a red licorice stick. Some of the Tidioutes do look great in their 'plain-ness', those with uniform black ebony come to mind.
Did all of the red jigged bone come out as bright a red as yours ?
kj

Roland mine is the Blood red jigged bone. I think the Elderberry jigged bone is more of a reddish brown and looks much better.

gsmith7158 wrote:

kootenay joe wrote:I agree Greg, the knife does not have any 'instant appeal'. Also the red is too 'bright', almost a 'neon' look or like a red licorice stick. Some of the Tidioutes do look great in their 'plain-ness', those with uniform black ebony come to mind.
Did all of the red jigged bone come out as bright a red as yours ?
kj

Roland mine is the Blood red jigged bone. I think the Elderberry jigged bone is more of a reddish brown and looks much better.

I really like the red.
I have 2 GEC in elderberry, it's more purple, at least to me.

Here is my elderberry 92 Eureka.

Recently pucked up the cocobola version to go with stag and bone. Great pattern, thanks kj