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Hey Folks,

A rainy day here in the south so I decided to play with my GEC collection and have a question. I have a few proto sunfish in the Northfield line and noticed the blades do not have the mirror type finish, never noticed this before. At first I thought the protos were not finished the same but then found another Northfield non proto and it has the same satin type finish. I only know of one knife of the Northfield line that was finshed with satin baldes intentionally. This was a sunfish 362208 in Tractor Green. Is this typical? do you have any with the same finish as this one below? Thanks BH

Satin finish on the Northfield Brand has happened quite frequently as early as 2008 as you noted ...mainly on the #23 and #73 patterns but also on the #53/54 pattern........some of these are noted on the " Yearly Inventory " and others slip by...............most recently on the new 2012 #42 Trapper which is noted 1 in stag and actually there are two that passed thru a dealers hands....

boggs wrote:Satin finish on the Northfield Brand has happened quite frequently as early as 2008 as you noted ...mainly on the #23 and #73 patterns but also on the #53/54 pattern........some of these are noted on the " Yearly Inventory " and others slip by...............most recently on the new 2012 #42 Trapper which is noted 1 in stag and actually there are two that passed thru a dealers hands....

Jim, Thanks for your reply.

When the pic service gets back up I show you the #36 Bonehead

glazed finish on northfields are not too uncommon. even my minkskinner abalone was not mirror polished. HiPower

I have a White Owl with satin finished blades and I like it better than my knives with polished blades. Seems more like a 'real' knife to me.

Wow I really like those scales - what is that material? It's beautiful!

I much prefer the glazed finish as opposed to the polished. It looks more "authentic" to me and generally is better done.