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KnifeMaker Comment by Dave Taylor on June 29, 2011 at 15:20

Max, I've been worried about your Sunfish all day here.
I was afraid it had ended up somewhere down on the South Side of town.........
Glad to hear it made it home.

Comment by Billy Oneale on June 29, 2011 at 13:15

My wife informed me that French Kate was in her blue fishnet stockings and may have caught the sunfish.

Comment by Danny Allen on June 29, 2011 at 12:01

Just received my beautiful new knife. Thanks Luca for you efforts. The knife was well worth the wait.

Comment by Luca Vignelli on June 27, 2011 at 9:15

Max, thanks for doing the research in the back pages of this thread to answer Stephen's questions.

Stephen, this knife was not an "official" iKC sanctioned knife, but rather a knife commissioned privately by me with the participation of like minded individual members of iKC who desired a knife of these specifications. Through iKC we as knife  collectors have "strength in numbers" and through our group effort we were able to muster up enough interested people to actually have GEC produce this special factory ordered knife, which would never have existed otherwise.

As for this knife being a limited edition, it is that, but from the very beginning I decided not to have the knives serialized because that would have been an added cost to each knife produced, as it costs money to have the knives engraved on the bolster or acid stamped on the blades. Additionally, some people, perhaps those that may be numerologically inclined, like certain numbers and not others, for example the negative associations for the number 13 or the positive associations for numbers with 8's in them, and so I decided to eliminate that possible complication and expense.

Finally, as Max said, all of the GEC 36's are tight due to the size and heft of their backspring, it takes some getting used to and definitely a bit of oil and working that blade open and closed over time to loosen up a bit.

I do hope that you do and will enjoy your knife, it's a beautiful pattern expertly crafted with the finest materials in a limited quantity. I'm sitting here waiting for mine to arrive and can't wait to get it!

Comment by Jan Carter on June 26, 2011 at 21:34

Stephen, I hope you dont mind I moved this here so we could get more help in answering your questions...Thanks to everyone for showing or telling us about yours...can't wait      

 

 Reply by stephen tungate yesterday

i was wondering if someone could fill me in on the new ikc club knife.this is my first sunfish i don't know a lot about them .are the blades supposed to be so tight and i thought that it would have IKC on knife shield or do we have to do that and also i thought that it would have 1 of 50 on blade but i guess i was wrong it is a nice knife but it is hard to open and nothing on shield or it does not say 1 of 50 i thought we wouid get that for 125.00

Comment by Luca Vignelli on June 26, 2011 at 16:52

JJ thanks for posting the pictures! I haven't received mine yet and I'm already drooling over yours!

To all of you who have so kindly thanked me for really getting this done, you are all very welcome, it couldn't have happened without all of you (us) here, so thanks to you all too!

Comment by Alan on June 26, 2011 at 16:11

Oh boy, I can't wait.... That is one awesome looking knife. The jet black is the way to go, Totally awesome. Hats off to Luca for making this thing happen, and the other members here for following through with the comitment of these knives. Power is in the numbers>>>> So Cool

Comment by Tom Peterson on June 26, 2011 at 13:01

Luca, well done! Thanks go out to you and Chris at GEC for making this happen and hats off to all of the IKC members who ordered and paid for this knife too! Can't wait to get mine!!! Hope that it is as good looking a knife as JJ's.

Comment by JJ PARKER on June 25, 2011 at 19:54

Luca thanks knife is Awesome shaving sharp=good snap for 36 hard pull jet black!!!!

Comment by Jan Carter on June 25, 2011 at 18:37

SOMEONE SHOW US A PICTURE???  Ours is in Chris's desk until we go get it.......

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