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The seahorse type whittler by gec is called the gespetto. I had to look that up, gespetto is an elderly impoverished wood carver! So now it makes sense.

robpa wrote: ↑Sat Jun 27, 2026 2:08 pm The seahorse type whittler by gec is called the gespetto. I had to look that up, gespetto is an elderly impoverished wood carver! So now it makes sense.

And so we have Gepetto, the elderly Italian wood carver of Pinocchio fame.

Correct, Geppetto was the old whittler who carved Pinocchio.

I think this is the most recent version GEC “Geppetto” whittler. A Christmas gift from my oldest son.

Ken

For some reason I have this overdeveloped sense of irony. I find it ironic that poor old impoverished Geppetto would have difficulty coming up with the funds to purchase the GEC knife with which to whittle Pinocchio.

Sorry, it just struck me as humorous.
Nice knife though!

This one was hot off the line few weeks ago. Somehow the jigged richlite caught my eye. Iimgoin back to pick up a canoe in stag soon as it's finished and hope to pick up a geppetto in bone. I hope to snag a Remington powder horn as well. I'm on a gec kick I guess?

Mumbleypeg wrote: ↑Sat Jun 27, 2026 3:36 pm Correct, Geppetto was the old whittler who carved Pinocchio.

I think this is the most recent version GEC “Geppetto” whittler. A Christmas gift from my oldest son.

Ken

The "s" in the OP threw me.

Steve Warden wrote: ↑Mon Jun 29, 2026 11:56 am

Mumbleypeg wrote: ↑Sat Jun 27, 2026 3:36 pm Correct, Geppetto was the old whittler who carved Pinocchio.

I think this is the most recent version GEC “Geppetto” whittler. A Christmas gift from my oldest son.

Ken

The "s" in the OP threw me.

I would never have got it right if I didn’t have the knife with the name on the “box”. I remember seeing the Pinocchio cartoon but don’t think I ever read it.

Ken

A new release of a 2011 pattern . Early if not GEC's first entering the split back whittlers. A buffalo horn Tidioute and a green jigged bone Northfield. These were pattern Premier Pattern Production knives.

The GEC 38 pattern more resembles the Case seahorse pattern.

wlf wrote: ↑Sun Jul 05, 2026 3:34 pm A new release of a 2011 pattern . Early if not GEC's first entering the split back whittlers. A buffalo horn Tidioute and a green jigged bone Northfield. These were pattern Premier Pattern Production knives.

Love em!

wlf wrote: ↑Sun Jul 05, 2026 3:37 pmThe GEC 38 pattern more resembles the Case seahorse pattern.

thanks Lyle, this would be a superb pattern for an AAPK Annual Club knife.

bestgear wrote: ↑Sun Jul 05, 2026 10:07 pm

wlf wrote: ↑Sun Jul 05, 2026 3:37 pmThe GEC 38 pattern more resembles the Case seahorse pattern.

thanks Lyle, this would be a superb pattern for an AAPK Annual Club knife.

Agree.