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Comment by Tom Peterson on August 18, 2011 at 22:25

Jan, I do the prepay thing too at least for tuition. They may have to live at home through (and after) college or start selling off the knife collection when I am gone.  On a totally separate tangent, have you seen the Randall museum? Thousands of vintage folders and fixed blades. I could will my collection to RMK but the kids would be P.O.'d. RMK needs some GEC's in their collection though!

Comment by Jan Carter on August 18, 2011 at 18:32

LOL,

Mine are on the prepay college plan.  I pay for the knives, when I am gone they can pay off their college.

Comment by Tom Peterson on August 18, 2011 at 15:07

I see on GEC's pocket knife photo page that they have added a Tidoute spear Hogan in Blue Abalone. If Northfield makes them I suppose I will have to get a clip and/or spear of those. They better not make the Whaler in abalone - it will take a bunch of shells to make one of those handles. And my kids will have to pay their own way for college. Sorry kids.

Comment by Tom Peterson on August 17, 2011 at 8:50

Jan,

I like your primitive whaler better than my own. I do like mine but when they polished the bone to taper it into the bolster they kind of overdid it. It left the primitive portion looking kind of blocky and unnatural. The polished primitive does look and feel really good but the transition between the two seems too abrupt. I guess that is one of the downsides to not seeing the knife that you are going to buy when you get it mail order. We need a GEC dealer in the Sunshine State - or at least more photos! It would be really awesome to be able to look at your favorite GEC knife de jour before deciding to buy it.

In Memoriam Comment by Robert Burris on August 13, 2011 at 8:59

Miss Jan, I agree in some ways the cutlery industry has gone backwards, in some cases, in producing good knives. 

Comment by Jan Carter on August 11, 2011 at 20:32

Borrowed this from Ryans Facebook...

Many of our production processes and equipment here at Great Eastern Cutlery are the same or very similar to those used in the cutlery factories of 75 years ago. We continually strive to make our pocket knives reminiscent of that era, an improbable task without the use of bygone manufacturing, but also, a bygone terminology. Just as with all other types of manufacturing, there are names and terms specifically used in the cutlery industry. We use it here at Great Eastern Cutlery on an everyday basis. This terminology from 100 years ago was conveyed by highly skilled cutlers from one cutlery company to another throughout their careers. But in the 21st century, skilled cutlery workers are nearly nonexistent, and there are no trade schools for cutlery manufacturing, so new employees here at Great Eastern Cutlery have the difficult task of not only learning the manufacturing process but also the terminology.

The Knife Makers Who Went West by Harvey Platts is an excellent book to read about the cutlery manufacturing history in the United States. The book follows the lives of four generations of the Platts family in the cutlery industry. A portion of that book that includes pocket knife assembly diagrams and terminology handed down through generations is copied below. We use the same terminology here at Great Eastern Cutlery

 

Comment by Jan Carter on August 11, 2011 at 20:17

Oh I prefer it to stag

Comment by Richard L Campbell (Dick) on August 11, 2011 at 19:51

They really are great aren't they? I believe I like mine better than the stag. It is my first primitive bone handled knife. Now all we need is a pearl, but I am not sure I could afford it.

Comment by Jan Carter on August 11, 2011 at 19:27

The primitive bone has made it.  It is just fantastic

Comment by Jan Carter on August 10, 2011 at 20:31

YEA, new Beavertails!!!

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