2019 Forum Knife : Poll - Slab Type

[btb01]

No way that could win!

I'd say it has about the same chance as the Glitter Gold Acrylic.

 

[cigarrodog]

If osage orange is a choice I would bet it would lose.

By a country mile.

 

[Misplaced Hillbilly]

Maybe mark side wood and pile side bone?

I literally was going to say this, Vince

 

[Prester John]

Another reason I changed my vote to wood is that with the size of this knife, it would make for a lighter knife, I think.

 

[Jathes]

No way that could win!

Only with one voter.
It'd definitely be unique

 

[Prester John]

I literally was going to say this, Vince

Great minds, David....

 

[Sabercat]

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I love this, but I'm guessing blue can't win. I couldn't say for sure that I would vote for it over other likely options, but I'd still be excited for it.

 

[cbr1000]

I'd say it has about the same chance as the Glitter Gold Acrylic.

Also the same chance as getting jigged bone that looks like the mock ups

 

[rockgolfer]

I can possibly be swayed, but that doesn't feel like a chance I want to take.

I would want assurances that OO wouldn't even be in the poll, haha.

I was one who piped up early and liked osage but you sir, can be most assured. If you vote for smooth wood, I will not vote OO

Look at the ebony and king woods and all those options.

I like jigged bone but between no guarantee of random or what color or possibly saw cut. Wood is the safe choice.......ok, campaigning over

 

[draggat]

I would love to see Smooth Autumn Gold Bone so I can do my personal custom over dye.....

I think stag wasn’t offered because of the price increase but of course I could be wrong. Plus, 70% of people would probably get a 2nd rate set of slabs.

 

[Kiteman72]

Also the same chance as getting jigged bone that looks like the mock ups

And that's the real danger with the jigged bone option. What are the choices really going to be? Mike has pretty much already said, and I'm paraphrasing here, "No cool stuff".

 

[cbr1000]

Smooth wood leaves a lot of fun options.. snake wood, black woods, ironwood, bloodwood, kingwood...

 

[Misplaced Hillbilly]

It looks good with the banner shield.
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Good God man quit getting my hopes up
Seriously I agree the banner shield looks good on multiple cover options.

 

[HEMI 49]

I realize GEC isn't going to make 143 knives with 7 different shields...…… But...……. Make 76 knives with the agreed upon shield and the remaining 67 w/o a shield...….. It would save them the 10 $cent$ for the shield & the labor of inletting the handle to install said shield...…… I can't see where that would be a big ta-do...……. It would keep the anti shield people happy...….

 

[Kiteman72]

And a big thank you to waverave for all the sweet mockups!

How about a Patriot Acrylic, just for fun.

 

[Prester John]

I would love to see Smooth Autumn Gold Bone so I can do my personal custom over dye.....

I think stag wasn’t offered because of the price increase but of course I could be wrong. Plus, 70% of people would probably get a 2nd rate set of slabs.

I think the cost is a big part, especially for the size slabs that would be required, but I would be happy with any stag, even that that some would consider "2nd rate."

 

[waverave]

Oh yeah!

 

[knifeswapper]

I don’t know where GEC gets it stock from....
....The same style (rogers jig bone) that has been commented on a lot in this thread has been used recently for the Maher and Grosch Yankee Whittler knife, as I have posted previously.
....At post #36, Mike indicated that this style of jigging may not be available in any event (that is, if his term ‘culpepper bone’ is a reference to this style).

Any bone on a GEC knife over the last 10 years or so, has been done by GEC's "Bone Room".
Culpepper bone is not a style; they were the supplier of much of the bone the first 2 or so years of GEC production. Carved pumpkin, Brimstone, etc.

@knifeswaper - maybe this was asked and if so I must have missed it. Will No Shield be a choice in the Shield Poll?

Yes.

Cost was not a consideration on the stag; it was intentionally excluded from the list at the factory. Didn't ask why.

 

[Prester John]

Oh yeah!
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Please delete!

 

[btb01]

Smooth wood leaves a lot of fun options.. snake wood, black woods, ironwood, bloodwood, kingwood...

Yeah, but the word I've seen most often from the smooth bone advocates is "Ebony." Now I like Ebony just fine, but Ebony-clad GEC's are pretty ubiquitous. Seems like just about every GEC pattern gets an Ebony version. I'd be willing to bet that there'll be an Ebony in the standard #86 run.