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KnifeMaker Comment by Joan Mae Howard on May 29, 2009 at 7:12

Go to www.greateasterncutlery.net and click on the new release page to see the first pictures of the congress that was released Thursday.

Comment by Richard L Campbell (Dick) on May 27, 2009 at 19:54

I hope it is a large congress. Stag, or pearl handles with the Northfield logo.

Comment by Ken Mundhenk on May 27, 2009 at 18:54

The next new pattern for them will be a congress, later this week or next week.

In Memoriam Comment by Scott King on May 26, 2009 at 21:33

Any Feedback from GE here on any new designs in the words yet to be announced?

Comment by Ken Mundhenk on May 18, 2009 at 6:10

Great Eastern Cutlery will be conducting their annual "Open House" on July 23rd with tours of the factory 8A-2P, July 24th with tours of the factory, 8A-4p and July 25th with tours 8A-4P. Their address is: 701 Spring Street, Titusville, PA. Chris at GEC has provided the following lodging information:

Comfort Inn - Titusville - 814-827-0041
Cross Creek Resort - Titusville - 814-827-9611
Arlington Hotel - Oil City - 814-677-1221
Holiday Inn Express - Cranberry - 814-677-2640
Quality Inn - Franklin - 814-437-3031

Hope to see you there

Comment by Mike Bryant on May 15, 2009 at 19:34

Thanks Chris, I am glad the Ladies & Gentlemen from Great Eastern are members of this Club, Especially You! You had the records on hand to provide an answer to my question in an exceptionally quick time! :).

I am sure sooner or later other questions will come up about Production Numbers and the relation to a particular number of a knife’s frame. It is great to know that You have records of the different handles and numbers sequence associated with the different Shields. Oh, and I didn’t have a hard time understanding what you were saying.

At this time Counterfeiting is probably not a problem with GEC, however as time goes by and these early issues rise in value, then I would almost bet some enterprising Person will attempt to counterfeit the more valuable issues of your early cutlery. It’s great to know somebody can tell us if the knife is legit or not.

I collected The Case Classics because the Quality of the knives, however the miss information on them was tremendous. Even the Case Classics Book that was published in 1995 had some typos in it. Hopefully when the GEC Book is published for GEC collectors your records will be a little more accurate.

Comment by Richard L Campbell (Dick) on May 15, 2009 at 15:00

Just purchased a Northfield #36 pattern and it looks great. I wonder if a three back spring lockback whittler is a possibility.

Comment by Mike Latham on May 15, 2009 at 14:38

Chris, that looks like French or something. Can you translate to english?

I think you said 150 Amber, 81 Bocote, and 19 Chocolate; all but the Chocolate with varying number ranges...?

In other words, stop trying to make sense out of 2006 serial numbers...

KnifeMaker Comment by Joan Mae Howard on May 15, 2009 at 13:29

It has been brought to my attention that our 2006 production numbers are not correct. I would like to explain the #23 Amber. My records show that we produced the following in numerical order for the #23 Tidioute: 001 - 136 - Diamond Back Amber, 137 - 189 - Bocote Wood, 190 - 199 - Diamond Back Amber, 200 - 205 - Bocote Wood, 206 - 208 - Diamond Back Amber, 209 - 230 - Bocote Wood, 231 - Diamond Back Amber, 232 - 250 Chocolate Jig bone. Hope that helps explain it somewhat.

Comment by Mike Latham on May 15, 2009 at 11:59

No, GEC will only make 2 protos of each variant and #1 goes into the company collection. I expect they used the remaining blades for the 2007/2006 transition River Valley Green Pioneer. That tang has both dates (they added the 2007). People will throw a fit if you go higher than your etched max production; few complain if you come in under advertised production totals.

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