Ive just got my first Gec and choose the #78 spear with elderberry jig covers.and ill have to say im having trouble rotating it at the minute and use it for all my edc tasks.I just love the way I can strop it in the evening ready for the next day.thanks for you video.atb paddy👍☺🍀
I was blessed to find that red 78 on everyone's favorite auction site and somehow managed to NOT pay a fortune for it. I don't use it, but It's one of my top 3 favorite GECs. But, I'm a sucker for red jigged bone knives. I don't know why they are so appealing to me. Also, I got my very first GEC knife from YOU Rob during one of your Thursday night auctions. My favorite patterns are 66, 77, 78 and15, not necessarily in that order.
Great video Rob. I think I speak for many of us when I say I would love to see a video of you doing one of your choil mods. I would personally also like to see you do a video of how you fix scratches on the finish of a blade. Hope you and your family are well have a great night brother.
I had to wait rather longer than you did to get my first #78 - just got it today! Same version as your smooth white bone, but in Northfield Sambar Stag - pleased to report the pull is close to an 8 on my example - according to Alchemy_1, the Northfields on this release have stronger pulls than the Tidioutes . This pattern is even better in hand than I'd been hoping for, so now I'm on the hunt for a single bladed version in a contrasting material to complement it. One question from this Englishman if I may: What is the historic difference (not the knife difference, which you explained) between 'Yankee' and 'American'?
Hey Rob. Great video; I really like the 78 pattern. I’m curious, though, as to whether GEC can adjust the pull to be tighter if I were to send them a knife that has a really light pull. I’ve got a Fremont Jack with what must be only a 4 or 5 pull.
Erik Deran Not really, Erik. The tension of the backspring controls the pull weight. If you try to make it heavier by peening the pivot and putting it in a bind, that will just make the action sluggish.
You know I like fixed blades but I just wonder what people use slip joints for. I keep boxing up my slip joints to send you to sell but as I go through them I remember the knives my grandad gave me and I take them out of the box to hold on to. The only time I remember using one was at about age 5 using it to slice green apples 🍏 after which I ate too many and got really sick. I still don’t blame the knife, just those green apples which were probably for baking and not just eating 😂😂😂 Most slip joint knives just ride funny in my front pocket. So I was just wondering how most of y’all carry and use that type of knife.
The correct way to carry them, again according to "The Old Dog," is naked in the bottom of the front pocket, laying flat and horizontal. But I carry mine in a "man purse," or leather slip, to preserve the condition, which requires me to obtain a waiver in order to enter Tony's shop. Oh, the shame...
A knife like this one will perform flawlessly almost any EDC task which we normally use a modern folder for. Only a bonehead folds a well made slip joint unintentionally while cutting. But since most guys are at times boneheads, thus the modern folder.
I have 2, both spearpoint, one in golden brown jigged bone and one in Gabon ebony, I just love these knives probably my favorite traditionals
Ive just got my first Gec and choose the #78 spear with elderberry jig covers.and ill have to say im having trouble rotating it at the minute and use it for all my edc tasks.I just love the way I can strop it in the evening ready for the next day.thanks for you video.atb paddy👍☺🍀
I love my #78 in Gabon Ebony from 2017. It is one of my favorite GEC patterns. Thanks Rob, another great video.
I was blessed to find that red 78 on everyone's favorite auction site and somehow managed to NOT pay a fortune for it. I don't use it, but It's one of my top 3 favorite GECs. But, I'm a sucker for red jigged bone knives. I don't know why they are so appealing to me. Also, I got my very first GEC knife from YOU Rob during one of your Thursday night auctions. My favorite patterns are 66, 77, 78 and15, not necessarily in that order.
Just a good overall size and shape, both the frame and the blades. Old school style. What's not to love?
Great video Rob. I think I speak for many of us when I say I would love to see a video of you doing one of your choil mods. I would personally also like to see you do a video of how you fix scratches on the finish of a blade. Hope you and your family are well have a great night brother.
Thanks, Professor! By "choil mod," do you mean the kind you see in this video on a slipjoint?
Haha no I should have been more specific. Like the ones you do on modern folders that don’t have good edges at the plunge grind.
"You carry more blades than a field of grass!"
I keep flirting with getting a GEC. I grew up with folders like those (not as high-end). I just can’t let go of my modern stuff!! Thanks for sharing.
Howard Sheppard I remember when I was where you are, Howard. That was about 50 GEC’s ago!
TheApostleP Man! That simply won’t do... 😬
@@Howardsheppard keep your old blades and buy a few GEC knives. It don't hurt to have verity
You're right, that pattern is very nice. : )
White bone & spear point perfection in my view.
The walk and talk is the upmost!
Do a GEC collection video!
Got a single blade white bone and the Smokey mountain knife works single blade. Great knives
I like the Tidioute versions more than the Northfields! Simpler.
I had to wait rather longer than you did to get my first #78 - just got it today! Same version as your smooth white bone, but in Northfield Sambar Stag - pleased to report the pull is close to an 8 on my example - according to Alchemy_1, the Northfields on this release have stronger pulls than the Tidioutes . This pattern is even better in hand than I'd been hoping for, so now I'm on the hunt for a single bladed version in a contrasting material to complement it. One question from this Englishman if I may: What is the historic difference (not the knife difference, which you explained) between 'Yankee' and 'American'?
Hey Rob. Great video; I really like the 78 pattern. I’m curious, though, as to whether GEC can adjust the pull to be tighter if I were to send them a knife that has a really light pull. I’ve got a Fremont Jack with what must be only a 4 or 5 pull.
Erik Deran Not really, Erik. The tension of the backspring controls the pull weight. If you try to make it heavier by peening the pivot and putting it in a bind, that will just make the action sluggish.
You know I like fixed blades but I just wonder what people use slip joints for. I keep boxing up my slip joints to send you to sell but as I go through them I remember the knives my grandad gave me and I take them out of the box to hold on to. The only time I remember using one was at about age 5 using it to slice green apples 🍏 after which I ate too many and got really sick. I still don’t blame the knife, just those green apples which were probably for baking and not just eating 😂😂😂 Most slip joint knives just ride funny in my front pocket. So I was just wondering how most of y’all carry and use that type of knife.
The correct way to carry them, again according to "The Old Dog," is naked in the bottom of the front pocket, laying flat and horizontal. But I carry mine in a "man purse," or leather slip, to preserve the condition, which requires me to obtain a waiver in order to enter Tony's shop. Oh, the shame...
Just curious, what tasks do you preform with your slip joint knives
A knife like this one will perform flawlessly almost any EDC task which we normally use a modern folder for. Only a bonehead folds a well made slip joint unintentionally while cutting. But since most guys are at times boneheads, thus the modern folder.
What’s the point of such a strong pull ?
chip Lape in the immortal words of “The Old Dog,” Tony Bose... “If it was easy, a bunch of girls would do it.” I have nothing to add to that.
Tony Bose=Old Timer(love him)!
To break fingernails and cut your finger tips off.