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Great Eastern Cutlery #54 Tidioute ‘Big Moose’

Some days only a big slipjoint will do. For days like that, there’s the Great Eastern Cutlery #54 Tidioute “Big Moose.” Its four-inch frame holds a pair of full-size blades — a clip and a spear, both of 1095 carbon steel — along with … Continue reading

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Great Eastern Cutlery #73 Tidioute Trapper

The Great Eastern Cutlery #73 frame is one of our favorites — it’s big enough to allow a solid grip, and it’s just the right shape. Today’s wallpaper image is of the GEC #73 Tidioute Trapper, a slim slipjoint that features a … Continue reading

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Great Eastern Cutlery #38 Tidioute ‘John Chapman’

Here’s a new GEC, one we’re pretty sure you haven’t seen before — the #38 Tidioute “John Chapman.” We just got a shipment from Great Eastern Cutlery’s inaugural production of this profile, and we must say we’re impressed. It features … Continue reading

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Great Eastern Cutlery #38 Northfield Grinling Whittler

This beautiful #38 Grinling Whittler is covered in Sambar stag. It’s warm in the hand and sharp as all get-out. Great Eastern Cutlery is making modern classic slipjoints. You can see a great review of this knife by survival instructor Kevin … Continue reading

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Great Eastern Cutlery #38 Northfield Grinling Whittler

Here’s another look at the Great Eastern Cutlery #38 Grinling Whittler. Unlike the Tidioute we posted the other day, however, this one bears the Northfield UN-X-LD marque. And in place of Black Camel Bone, this one’s scaled in Burnt Stag. … Continue reading

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Great Eastern Cutlery: Patina grows, character shows

Before the advent of mass-produced stainless-steel knives, virtually all blades were made of carbon steel. When a knife, like this three-blade GEC, developed a patina of gray or even black, the change in color simply was an indication of use. … Continue reading

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Great Eastern Cutlery #38 Tidioute Grinling Whittler

The classic whittler pattern is one of the most useful slipjoints we know of, and we especially love the Great Eastern Cutlery #38 Tidioute Grinling Whittler with its tapered serpentine frame. We thought it couldn’t get any better — and … Continue reading

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Great Eastern Cutlery #25 Barlow

What was that? Did someone say Barlow? This well-loved Tidioute #25 Barlow by Great Eastern Cutlery, scaled in “Tractor Green” jigged bone, is just a baby. It’s also one of our favorite traditional pocketknives.

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