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What is your favorite Great Eastern knife and why?

This is a hard one for me. Since I'm a toenail collector I REALLY like the toenails they are fantastic. I carry a stag 73 pattern single blade, its my daily companion. I really like the looks and the feel of the 25 pattern easy open. Since I started the discussion, My favorite is my daily companion, a Northfield 73 pattern, stag, single blade its rough, tough and gets the job done.

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FeaturedPermalink Reply by Charles Sample on August 27, 2016 at 22:35

Quite a knife Paul!

Paul S said:

362209 is a Burnt Stag Sunfish-my first Greater Eastern /Northfield. Burnt Stag and a lot of it as this knife is a monster size! Great workmanship!

Permalink Reply by Billy Oneale on August 28, 2016 at 10:26

Beautiful knife

Permalink Reply by steven patterson on October 7, 2016 at 13:16

been looking for a 15 boys knife any one got one?

Permalink Reply by Tim on December 1, 2016 at 18:26

This at the moment. There is a new favorite all the time :)

In all seriousness, the grail favorite would be the #38 Grinling Whittler which I hope to have one day. I have a Orchard Gem which is an amazing useful knife. The 38 pattern is just a great overall package. I guess you can have a favorite, and only dream about it. GEC builds truly amazing quality knives. This 22 is flawless.

Permalink Reply by Jan Carter on December 1, 2016 at 20:29

Tim,

I have to give you, GEC does indeed build some amazing knives !

Permalink Reply by John Bamford on December 2, 2016 at 11:02

Beautiful knife Tim .

Permalink Reply by Tim on December 5, 2016 at 10:01

One of my favorites - #15 Scout. This was my first GEC. Have a good week everyone.

FeaturedPermalink Reply by dead_left_knife_guy on December 6, 2016 at 22:43

The 42 Missouri Trader, hands down -- because of its similarity to the "single blade trapper" pattern that is the Queen Mountain Man. It's smaller, but only in a way that makes it more pocket-friendly. Even better, the green Micarta acorn shield -- it was exactly what I was looking for, & it practically fell into my lap when I stumbled onto it on eBay. Okay, it made my pocket lighter (by removing some cash from it), but it was totally worth it, in a grail-knife sort of way. It actually did such a good job satisfying that itch, I haven't bought another similar knife since, & that was almost a year ago!

Permalink Reply by Derek Wells on December 10, 2016 at 20:55

They (the #42) are indeed a very nice knife and stainless 440 which changes it up a bit for GEC

Permalink Reply by Tim on December 27, 2016 at 18:20

Derek Wells said:

They (the #42) are indeed a very nice knife and stainless 440 which changes it up a bit for GEC

Very nice knife.

Permalink Reply by Kenneth W. Hill on June 24, 2020 at 15:13

Permalink Reply by Kenneth W. Hill on June 25, 2020 at 23:12

I have been dreaming of this knife for a long time. If I can score two Franks SFO exotic India bone #23 trappers , I would love to have a main blade removed on one of them . It would be great for an EDC knife.

Kenneth W. Hill said: