GEC #77 Medium Barlow Impressions

[SnailOffTheTrail]

It dawned on me today: shouldn't we have been getting a CK pocket slip with the #77 barlow?

 

[knifeswapper]

It dawned on me today: shouldn't we have been getting a CK pocket slip with the #77 barlow?

Pray tell the reasoning for the dawning?

 

[SnailOffTheTrail]

I looked into it and the best explanation I have is that I must have been mistaken by some other sellers that do issue free pocket slip with GEC knives or their brand.
My appologies, just a confused man over here.

 

[Old Engineer]

I looked into it and the best explanation I have is that I must have been mistaken by some other sellers that do issue free pocket slip with GEC knives or their brand.
My appologies, just a confused man over here.

You may have been mis-informed but you do have great 77 Barlow .

Harry

 

[SnailOffTheTrail]

You may have been mis-informed but you do have great 77 Barlow .

Harry

Thank you, Harry.
For obvious reasons I dubbed it Krówka (traditional polish fudge treat that people used to get while traveling to Poland in Cold War era).

It truly is beautifully made knife with great walk&talk. My only nitpick is that I would like to see the spine of the blade in line with the back of the handle as it is on the TC barlow I have.

 

[HEMI 49]

Thank you, Harry.
For obvious reasons I dubbed it Krówka (traditional polish fudge treat that people used to get while traveling to Poland in Cold War era).

It truly is beautifully made knife with great walk&talk. My only nitpick is that I would like to see the spine of the blade in line with the back of the handle as it is on the TC barlow I have.

Thank you, Harry.
For obvious reasons I dubbed it Krówka (traditional polish fudge treat that people used to get while traveling to Poland in Cold War era).

It truly is beautifully made knife with great walk&talk. My only nitpick is that I would like to see the spine of the blade in line with the back of the handle as it is on the TC barlow I have.

Is the blade alignment for visual appeasement or is there some functionality to it?

 

[SnailOffTheTrail]

Just pure esthetics.

 

[Old Engineer]

Thank you, Harry.
For obvious reasons I dubbed it Krówka (traditional polish fudge treat that people used to get while traveling to Poland in Cold War era).

It truly is beautifully made knife with great walk&talk. My only nitpick is that I would like to see the spine of the blade in line with the back of the handle as it is on the TC barlow I have.

I see what you mean so I went and checked some of mine from 2015 and 2016 and they were not like that , but they were clip blade versions .

Harry

 

[GE Jr]

Thank you, Harry.
For obvious reasons I dubbed it Krówka (traditional polish fudge treat that people used to get while traveling to Poland in Cold War era).

It truly is beautifully made knife with great walk&talk. My only nitpick is that I would like to see the spine of the blade in line with the back of the handle as it is on the TC barlow I have.

Hard for me to tell from the pic, but is the back spring a bit proud when the knife is open?

 

[SnailOffTheTrail]

Hard for me to tell from the pic, but is the back spring a bit proud when the knife is open?

It is wee tiny bit proud to liners/bolsters, but I can barely catch fingernail on it and you certainly can't see it in the photo. But the spring termination is about 0.5 mm above the back of the blade where they meet.

The same thing with my example of 2018 ancient barlow, where blade too is leaning forward.

Yet I don't believe it to be the cause because the blade and the spring are not flush on TC barlow either.

Again, this is just a nitpick, nothing functional. It is only that it makes the knife appear bent or broken when open. More severe example on the secondary blade of my böker barlow:

 

[JohnDF]

the blade and the spring are not flush

It allows the surfaces to wear down over years of hard use and not have the blade end up above the spring.

 

[willc]

The 2014 clip point run was my favorite out of all the 77’s.

 

[mrknife]

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The 2014 clip point run was my favorite out of all the 77’s.

very nice to see another one from the run. I am quite surprised to see the ebony was actually so light! here is my modded 77 from that run

 

[willc]

very nice to see another one from the run. I am quite surprised to see the ebony was actually so light! here is my modded 77 from that run

I like the lighter streaky looking ebony that GEC used to use.
I’ll have to dig it out but I am pretty sure I have light colored one from an older 15 run.

 

[ddavis]

It's been awhile since I've logged onto Bladeforums, here's a photo update.

This knife is doing some rough duty during home renovations. I've been neglecting this knife for weeks now - no oil, barely any stropping, using it for tasks like scraping paint, cutting filler and chiseling door latch openings. It just keeps going. To quote Loveless - "a knife is a tool, and if we don't treat our tools with a certain familiar contempt, we lose perspective."

 

[willc]

I thought that my BF 2014 77 was lost.
Well today I found it behind my nightstand.

I’m sure it was cozy in its little slip but I am glad to have it back.

 

[Spaten]

 

[MililaniGrown]

I just looked through all of the posts/photos surrounding the release of this 2015 model and I couldn't find a photo of any cover and/or blade configuration where the blade was etched with Northfield like this one. I can only guess that it was etched by mistake? Got it as a user so it doesn't matter to me either way but I'm just curious if there are other etched 2015 77s out there.

 

[willc]

I just looked through all of the posts/photos surrounding the release of this 2015 model and I couldn't find a photo of any cover and/or blade configuration where the blade was etched with Northfield like this one. I can only guess that it was etched by mistake? Got it as a user so it doesn't matter to me either way but I'm just curious if there are other etched 2015 77s out there.

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I don’t believe any of my 77’s from 2015 have an etch.
My tube says Old Tan Saw Cut bone and it looks similar to your knife but no etch on mine.

I kind of feel cheated now.

 

[brochacho]

None of my 2015 77 barlows have an etch. I’ve never seen one in the wild. Rare one you got there