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Ray Rybar and Great Eastern Cutlery knife
Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 3:08 pm
by lenny357
Check this Ebay auction out. Sounds like a nice find if your into GEC heavy, anyone have aditional info on this knife?
I did provide a Ray Rabar link here ---->
http://rybarknives.com/index.html
Ebay----->
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... Track=true
Re: Ray Rybar and Great Eastern Cutlery knife
Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 4:39 pm
by knifeswapper
There are many opinions on SFO knives. This generally happens once a brand gains some popularity and you will start seeing more and more of them. Personally I don't go much for the SFO knives branded with some name I wouldn't normally collect anyway. Special variants are much more desirable (4 blade stockmans, for example) than the never-ending names people want to put on a knife to draw in collectors that feel they need one of everything.
Wait for the Brian Yellowhorse or Michael Prater at the $250 price tag.
JMPO
Re: Ray Rybar and Great Eastern Cutlery knife
Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 5:01 pm
by muskrat man
another JMPO here, if he is a ABS mastersmith why did he need GEC to make the knives?? A nice knife none the less
Re: Ray Rybar and Great Eastern Cutlery knife
Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 5:13 pm
by jonet143
what part of it did he design? look like the same profile and blade as the other gec knives.
Re: Ray Rybar and Great Eastern Cutlery knife
Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 5:56 pm
by muskrat man
jonet143 wrote:what part of it did he design? look like the same profile and blade as the other gec knives.
my thoughts as well
Re: Ray Rybar and Great Eastern Cutlery knife
Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 8:11 pm
by Hukk
Sounds like all he did was to "Machine Forge" the blades with a Hydraulic drop hammer or an air hammer rather than stamp the blanks out.
Looks the same to me, I'd like to see them do something different with that 3-3/4 inch frame - how about giving that frame a bit of a new shape and put a Warncliffe blade in there.
Looks to be the same knife, just manufactured it a little diferently. I'll pass, no news release either?
Re: Ray Rybar and Great Eastern Cutlery knife
Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 9:35 pm
by lenny357
I think they just droped his name on it. I thought it was weird because Ray dosen't really make knives of this type. I feel if my name was on something, I would want more of a foot print on it's design.
Re: Ray Rybar and Great Eastern Cutlery knife
Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 3:39 pm
by gringo
howdy...
i was in ray's shop yesterday...nice man.
i believe these knives are advertising pieces, though, while i meant to ask him about the GEC knife...i was sidetracked...
i do own one of the GEC knives...i can't make up my mind to use it or pass it on to some collector?
honest...this man is doing some fantastic metalwork.
i ended up trading him out of a blade blank, for a large skinning knife...i'll post up some pictures when i can.
http://rybarknives.com/
look it this workmanship...
http://www.rybarknives.com/bladespage.html
here is one of his tutorials.
http://paaba.net/Projects/ZRybardamascus.htm