Hello everyone I hope you bear with me as I get this discussion group going and while I'm building the new website. My family and I are very excited about bringing new patterens out and having great discussion on IKC about them. One thing we have learned from the GEC affair is its important to have discussion about whats we are bringing out so  we can adjust to what people want. Thanks again for the support.

Welcome back Ryan! I'd like to wish you and your family success in your new venture! I'll be keeping a close eye on developments at Daniels Family Knives,and Tuna Valley Cutlery. It all sounds quite exciting for you. If there is anything I can do to help,just give me a holler.

Way to go Ryan,that`s more than you posted on here since you joined.Welcome back,and keep it up.

Nice to read your family history Ryan an I'm looking forward to this new chapter in your life in the trade! Having loved what you guys did at GEC I am eagerly looking forward to what you and your father will do with Tuna Valley Cutlery. Funny, my very first, and so far only but not for long, SFO knife was last year when I spearheaded the GEC #46 Buffalo Horn Sunfish with the help of the whole gang here at iKC! Glad to hear Ken likes Sunfish too and I do also have one of his Ken Daniels Cocobollo Sunfish which I love. Maybe there is a future for me too in the cutlery business! Ha haaaa!

Good luck Ryan, Good things come to those that do good, so you should have a winner in Tuna Valley Knives.

Ryan and family,

So good to see you here.  Thank you for letting us know what direction you will be going and sharing more of where you have been.  I guess the biggest question I have heard is are you starting a new factory?  I appreciate your letting us know that you intend to stay USA made and we look forward to chating with you here.

So are there any hints on the first pattern coming out?

I hope to see a mini coke bottle pattern from GEC...woot woot !

Jan no we will not be starting up our own factory again but will still be bringing unqiue parttern selections with only the best handle material (Stag what else). Were not giving any hints to our first pattern yet but when we do IKC will be the first to know.

Ryan,

Great to know.  I see Sue is hoping for a mini coke bottle and stag would be a wonderful choice for that.  Ya'll know I am a whitler fan, so while we wait for the exciting news of what comes first....everyone tell us what you would like to see in patterns this year?

At the risk of repeating myself, I'd love to see a new Moose pattern knife in the 4 1/8" size, with polished and swedged blades and straight bolsters without the pinch, on the straight equal end cigar frame. With it's larger clip and spear blades and slim profile this simple two blade pattern seems like a dream of a multitasking knife to me. Ryan, I do also hope TVC will be issuing knives with wood handles, for those who don't want stag handles and might prefer the warmth and lower price of wood. 

My ultimate knife would be a Tuna Valley fishing knife. Based off the #12 frame, it would have two blades with a hook disgorger secondary. I think that would be very cool, a Tuna Valley fishing knife!!!

Right now, I'm just excited to see anything.

I agree with Luca, make it a Moose, please.

well you will get my suport as well as greateastern,i'm ready for your knives to come out i'll own one of them to,hope every thing goes the way ya'll want it to go .thanks tom   

i don't care what ya'll build i;ll buy them...........

Although I would personally love to see an old style Clasp Knife and second best to that would certainly be a traditional big swell centered Moose pattern

OK, a swell center wouldn't hurt, as long as it's a big Moose! Moooooooooooose! Hey, and after all, they're gonna have to make more than one knife pattern anyway, so eventually TVC will have a knife to suit each and every one of us, right?

Johnny,

I just saw the Tuna Valley fishing knife idea.  I love that!!!!

GEC website "What's Happening Today" shows blades for a TVA  72  pattern.