Lets talk GEC!

[SteveC]

Very nice !

 

[Texoma]

What a knife, great job GEC

 

[Elgatodeacero]

Does anyone know what the “O-V-C” stands for on the pen blade?

 

[Jiki]

Ohio Valley Cutlery

 

[EngrSorenson]

What a knife, great job GEC

Congratulations on a beautiful acquisition! She’s purdy.

 

[Texoma]

Thank you

 

[tmd_87]

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What a knife, great job GEC

These things are fantastic!!!

 

[Camillus]

Has GEC ever made a stainless stockman or whittler? I am thinking 38, 66, 81, 82 etc but no stainless versions of those patterns come to mind.

 

[Will Power]

Don't think so, their parsimony with stainless is notorious The only GEC stainless pocket knives I have are 33 Conductors, 68 White Owl, a 73, a 15 but no 3 blade knives. IF they exist they must be rare. How about a scaled down Dixie say 3.5 or 3 3/8" in 154? or a Farmer's Jack all stainless? Yes please!

 

[jsdistin]

Has GEC ever made a stainless stockman or whittler? I am thinking 38, 66, 81, 82 etc but no stainless versions of those patterns come to mind.

Don't think so, their parsimony with stainless is notorious The only GEC stainless pocket knives I have are 33 Conductors, 68 White Owl, a 73, a 15 but no 3 blade knives. IF they exist they must be rare. How about a scaled down Dixie say 3.5 or 3 3/8" in 154? or a Farmer's Jack all stainless? Yes please!

Weren’t some of the Cuban stockmans stainless?

 

[Will Power]

J jsdistin I'm sure you're right! I believe some 53s were in stainless, good memory

 

[Wharn]

https://greateasterncutlery.net/blog/patterns/53-equal-end-cigar-cuban/

 

[black mamba]

From the top, left to right, all 440C #53 Cubans (followed by a few other stainless knives):
Elk Stag, Burnt Stag, Red Stag, Stained Green Tea Bone, 2nd Cut Burnt Stag, Red Wine Bone, Chocolate Bone.

 

[Peter Cho]

I saw a dealer selling Beer and Sausage stickers!

I haven't been pulled into the beer and sausage gang....yet. but those stickers are lookin' cool

 

[traumkommode]

From the top, left to right, all 440C #53 Cubans (followed by a few other stainless knives):
Elk Stag, Burnt Stag, Red Stag, Stained Green Tea Bone, 2nd Cut Burnt Stag, Red Wine Bone, Chocolate Bone.

I always love your acorn collection, Jeff. They're such good knives, and most of those come from a time when GECs had something different about them. The quality was there then just as much as it is now, but, just... different, in a good way.

 

[black mamba]

Thanks, Drew, always appreciated!

 

[Camillus]

I can’t get the GEC website to work on my phone so I will ask what year those 53’s were made?

 

[Wharn]

I can’t get the GEC website to work on my phone so I will ask what year those 53’s were made?

It looks like the stainless were 2008, and the non stainless were the end of 2009/2010 then again in 2012.

 

[black mamba]

The #53 Cuban Stockmen in 440C stainless were all made in 2008.

 

[Will Power]

While we're on the stainless topic, something almost lost in the mists of time... Here's a 73 that I had converted to single-blade, my first GEC actually Since the early years 07-09 there's not been a lot of stainless and I haven't had a new stainless from them since mid 2016 a 15 single blade. A lot of back & forth goes on about this stainless strategy (omitting it..) but I remain convinced it's a wrong move in the long run. I've always argued that there's a definite market for good quality stainless Traditionals- see the growth in interest in Lionsteel & Viper from Italy. My hope is that GEC can and will invest profits in getting modern tooling capable of turning out sustained stainless runs. But I don't hold my breath, I suspect the owner simply prefers not to offer stainless knives His company, his choice of course.

This shows the bone which I for one, like a lot. The other cool aspect of stainless was the Cyclops Ironworks tang stamp, hidden from view here.