ya got crystal balls?

[slipjointed]

Hello knife fans. We all know GEC stuff is top drawer and everyone's busy cherry picking the best scales, patterns, serial numbers, etc. Hey, it's basically a brand new company and it's already rocking the knife world. So, in another 5 or even 10 years, what kinds of things will keep the collectors and everyday knife toter's happy and still wanting to get the latest and greatest from Great Eastern Cutlery?

[Aimus Moses]

A short and sweet answer slipjointed is, for GEC to keep pregressing in their future work and turning out really good quality built knives like they are doing. Like that line in one of those Kevin Cosner movies, "build it and they will come".

Aimus

[singin46]

Such a hard thing to figure out. I for one believe that the 1st year runs will be the most in demand by far, whether it's due to the Trapper pattern that may come to be known as their signature or the other favorites demanded by their customers. They are still in the creative stages it seems to me. Trying to get a feel for what folks want in their products. It's anyone's guess as to what they will come up with next but I would love to see a Vintage line, even within the Tidioute brand, that touched on a total and complete copy of the old masters of the cutler world. Let's call it Turn Of The Century Traditions line? Yep, TCT from GEC! Find some old Miller, Baldwin Bro. and the like and recreate.

[justold52]

Well I wish I could remember names. DANG MEDS....

Every time I go to the GEC factory I take him out for lunch.
He has posted here in AAPK many times.
I would like to see him in charge of one special line of GEC each year. I do know he gives 120% every day at GEC. He takes it personal what happenes in the factory.

Well thats what I would like to see in the future GEC useing the people that help the compay grow and rewareing them by useing their name on a knife....

Ken

Sorry I for got your name, it may come back to me after my nap...

[slipjointed]

Great ideas here. I'd really like to see GEC maintain their quality and continue to lead the way with innovative knife designs. It might be cool to do more one-of-a-kinds so collectors can really own a piece of American cutlery history.

[mito0]

i actually think gec is just now starting to get it right.
smaller batches, more creative patterns, nicer handle materials, etc.
i bought most of the first couple of year's worth of patterns as they came out, but i quit after 2007 and sold them all.
why?
they were all basically the same knife with a bunch of different handles.
plus, many of their production runs were either really big or really small.
it was really getting frustrating.
i got back into them later because they finally started making patterns that were much more interesting.
they also started using cool handle material like snakewood and ivory.
i also like the fact that they've cut many of their production runs to 25 #'d pieces.
i photographed all of my early gec knives before selling them.
looking back at them, they look like tinker toys compared with the newer ones.
i don't regret selling them at all.
on the other hand, many of my more recent northfield purhases will be part of my permanent collection.
they still make some duds now and again (those plastic-handled "tango" disasters come to mind).
but, overall, i think gec is the premier knife company today.
queen has taken a couple of steps backward lately and case just makes toys.
gec is absolutely unrivaled in my humble opinion.
as long as they continue to produce interesting new patterns and focus on making small, high quality batches, i'll keep buying them.


and, yes.
i have crystal balls.