I absolute agree with you it looks more to be a tongue depressor than a true knife.

Not the blade, the other mystery thingy. That blade, the Whaler #46 is true beauty imho.

excuse me but are you talking about the blade Jan posted???????

You'll have to excuse me for my comment on this knife. The beauty  I see in a knife is in the usefulness of it and not just the art. I see no use in this knife other than it may look pertly, so that to me could be a just another useless object unless I could use it. I guess it might make a fair skinner. Put a saw blade on it, than you might have something, a hunter might pocket.

A whole lot of people other than hunters use pocket knives. This type of knife is used by and carried buy many working people.Oilfield roustabouts,deckhands and sailors, and timber men to name a few.

Patrick,

Although I also find a challange thinking of the whaler blade as a pocket friendly item, I can tell you I know many people that use the whaler as an everyday carry knife.  For those that like the larger knives this beauty was received on the scene as "beyond awesome".  I have a buddy that carries one on his side daily and he uses it for everything

In the past 3-4 years I myself have found the beauty in the Toenail knives and thier varities.  This type of blade lends itself not only to everythng mentioned previously but also for the same things we use our clip and spey's for.  Everything from cutting straps on bundles  to trimming the steak before searing it on the BBQ.

Personal preference in blade type is what keeps knifemakers and designers up at night and what gives us all the ultimate choices in collecting and using decisions.  Celebrate the beauty of the knife and buy what you prefer.

GEC has posted some pics of the set up knife for the Lumberjack. Check em out!

Its looking kinda cool

Hey Moose fans, could this be a hint???

http://greateasterncutlery.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/bull...

I'm just hoping it will be a big one! Or perhaps, going back to the theme of an older posting of mine, that GEC will make a Moose pattern in small, Bullwinkle J. Moose (too small for me), medium/large as the regular Moose is, and X-tra large the heretofore never been seen giant Moose, built on a #46 frame. It has to be one of the all time great patterns, so make it to fit each and every one of us! Bespoke!

Don't get your hopes up to much...Greg posted on his Blog that a run of #66 Calf Roper's and Moose where to be run

Wait a minute! A moment of joyful appreciation of GEC is due. The fact that there is a tantalizing Moose at the "end of the hallway" is making me jump up and down with anticipation, hope, and potentially unbridled happiness! Robert, are you with me here! Yahoooooooo! Louder!!! I can't here ya! YAAAHOOOOOOOOO!

Oh, I hope it's not a 3 1/2" slant bolstered, dog legged Moose. Please, say it isn't so. I'd be kinda let down, only because that one's not for me personally, though for others, it may fit their dreams just right. I dream big!

Yea Luca, let the Moose in....open the door.....Yahoo.......open dat darn door, you all!

Sorry Luca, from what I see on Mike at CK.net early bird reservation section it appears that it will be a 66 BJM, but some will have straight bolsters and some will have the slanted that you are not a fan of. I like both types of bolsters and on the #54 frame I like the slanted ones. I would like to see more knives come out in the #54 frame and a moose would be one of them. I have noticed that there are still a fair amount of #54 moose's still on distributors shelves though. Must not be a real big seller with everyone. My only issue with the moose's is that the swedged blade ends kinda cut into my fingers when I'm using them. It does seem to be an underappreciated pattern though. That is good for the new collector though since some pretty cool ones are still out there for sale. Hope that GEC hears your request and makes the knives that you and Robert are looking for!

Awwww Shucks! Rats and double rats! Thanks for the bad news Tom, bad for me anyway. I definitely want a #54 Moose and I have seen what's available at all of the distributors, and they're mostly Tidioutes. I'm not a fan of the funky acrylics nor of the variations on stag and that's mostly what's available now. There are some midnight blue available, but they're Tidioutes. How close to black is the midnight blue? Anyone out there know, please let me know. Greg at TSA has some Moose, but they're expensive protos, and they're stag. I'd like to see a #54 Moose in black buffalo horn, or truly black ebony, and I definitely like the swedged blades and love the long pulls on the Northfields. I know GEC is listening and reading our posts here, but so far I haven't seen any action, maybe it's time we do an SFO? And Tom, I know you'll be on that in a hot second!

Luca..

Think of the darkest area of your Navy Blue Blazer ( winter or summer weight in case you ask) and it's just a tad darker...it's like looking at black but seeing Navy Blue edges

Thanks Jim! I don't have a blazer of any color, but I get the picture! That's kind of what I was imagining. I love this place, you ask a question and it gets answered immediately. Thanks again. I might have to get one as a user to tide me over...

Luca, I know you prefer the black color handles in the Northfield lineup but you might consider the Red Hangmans Bone that CK has. It has the straight bolsters you like too. I have one of these. CK also has a NF in green velvet acrylic but you've already said that you're not an acrylic fan and not a fan of slanted bolsters. I like the detailing of the NF's but don't mind the Tidioutes for a work knife at all.  Hope that you find one that you like....If GEC won't do it then maybe someone will do an SFO.

That hangman's Jig Bone is awesome. I have drooled over that very knife for the past year, just never pulled the trigger. Maybe I'll see some moose at the Rendezvous this year???

  I'd like to see a #54 Moose in black buffalo horn

Luca,

That's been done. Was a SFO for CK I believe, though they've long been sold out at his site. I know where one is still available. I'll send you a link.

I gotten a few 54s lately in both big jack and moose form & really prefer the blades on the same end.

Thanks Glenn, thanks Tom, and thanks Jim! I'm looking them over now...

Ah Oh...if Luca is on the prowl I 'd better get out there.....

    I ordered a one of the new GEML721112 with Plum Bn,scales from Mike at CK yesterday.I thought it would be a good partner for the iKC club knife and I like the Long Pull and Swedge on the clip blade.     Terry

Terry,

I see that as a great partner.  I really like the Plum Bone 

Luca, I'd like to see a Moose in cocabola or white smooth bone.

That Moose is gonzo!!

Luca must have been on the hunt. : )

Did anyone see whats at the end of the hall today?  Pair it with the pic of whats in the tooling room!!

So, the Mule? Is that gonna be a Sodbuster/Work knife? We've seen the preview over at CK and Mike is taking orders for new ones, so that looks to me like GEC is now dedicated to running this pattern in production. Yay! Make a big one, please.

And the new #26 looks nice! Dramatic short clip blade, nice design Bill. It's under my size radar, but who says I can't appreciate a small knife, for its design and proportions anyway...

A mule, a fish, a whale, a muskrat and a beaver and every other animal in the zoo except a MOOSE!

Shoot! twoshoes, you're right! And another nice Moose I was looking at is gone, the Tidioute Appaloosa. I like that Appaloosa bone look, the real evenly done contrasty splotchy look, if that isn't a contradiction in terms. I'd like to see GEC make some more Appaloosa, and some more smooth white bone like Robert mentioned below. I really want a Moose! And then, of course, I want everything else I have ever posted here. Ha!

Moose have a gestation period of 8 months and mate in late fall/early winter, giving birth in May or June. 

GEC, d'ya think we could align your production schedule to give birth to some new Moose in synchronicity with those in nature???

I'd like that. Alot!

An appaloosa moose.  COUNT ME IN!!!  I adore appaloose bone.  The beaver pond was the prettiest example I have seen of it

And another nice Moose I was looking at is gone, the Tidioute Appaloosa.

  

Oops. That one came to live at my house a couple weeks ago.  It's a real close match to what the old 1970s Case appaloosa jacks look like.  What'd you think of the one I sent you a link to?  Gotta say, if it had slant bolsters I don't think I could resist it.

I'm looking at the midnight blue bone Moose that Mike has. I don't have a Moose yet and I don't have a blue GEC. That should be changed. LOL

Give me a couple days and I'll get some pics taken and posted.

Gelnn,

Thanks, I would love to see it also

You know what? I'm gonna go back to an earlier hankering of mine, that GEC make more single bladed versions of their most popular blade designs in their most popular handle shapes. My vote for the first of such knives, that they haven't made yet (and hey I love that they made a single bladed #46!!!), would definitely be a single bladed #36 Sunfish. Just think of that hand feel and call me in the morning. Sweet dreams!

  Got this one in from CK yesterday, 2012 Northfield Plum Bn. Lockback.Goes good with the club knife.   Terry

Thats a real beauty Terry.

It's hard to beat those #72s, they really are just too slick to resist.

Gotta love a purdy #72! I agree with you Terry, makes a good companion to the iKC knife.

Hey folks,

Tom let me know that I have been remiss in advising you all that there is a group on iKC for the Daniels Family Knives.  It is in Toms words a  new chapter of high quality American made knives.  Brought to us by Ken and Ryan Daniels.  So check out their first offering right here on iKC (and surprise, it's a Great Eastern made knife) 

Wrangler preview.

http://greateasterncutlery.net/blog/information/wrangler/

Looks like the Wrangler is a #56 reverse like the geppetto, with a lady leg main blade.

Is anyone trying the new #26?

It looks like a nice little pocket pal with that Clip blade. 

Guys and gals, sorry to be off topic as usual, and talking about my dreams, as usual, but another thought came to me that I thought I should share. Fender guitars, another great American manufacturer, has a "custom shop" that makes limited edition guitars and will customize guitars to spec'. GEC will and does manufacture "custom" knives to customer specifications in both their own product line and those made for other brands and those are called Special Factory Orders, but they're not one off's and require a minimum production run. What if GEC could set up a shop within the factory that could customize their knives as an after market modification. Customized cars don't come out of the factory that way, they're worked on by craftsmen afterward. Imagine, you send in your existing GEC knife, whatever it may be, and have it modified to your liking by GEC's finest craftsmen, perhaps switching out one blade for another, or taking one out, or changing the scales. OK, that's what I'm dreaming about now. And hey, that service certainly wouldn't be free, but I think it would be a business opportunity for the great craftsmen at GEC, and an opportunity for us all to get the knives we dream about made by the company we so admire. Made by the GEC Custom Shop, I can se the COA now!

Luca, I like your idea, if GEC could make that work. That might also allow engraving of bolsters, etc.  Lots of potential to own a 1 of 1!

Luca, this sounds like what Buck does in their custom shop. 

I think as of right now, GEC may be to small to start something like this up. I don't know for sure, but I wander if they would have to higher new employees to get this going. I like the idea, but it sounds like a dream that you have just infected me with and now I will never sleep again.

Why buy a knife if you want to change everything about it? Why not just order your one of a kind from a custom knife maker and be done with it?