Great Eastern Cutlery Factory Tour Part 2
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 มิ.ย. 2013
- A brief tour of the Great Eastern Cutlery factory showing the majority of processes which go into the making of America's finest traditional pocket knives. Video is courtesy of Crawford County Outdoors.
I love the old time feeling of this video and the people and manager who put these knives together. Bravo, made in America 🇺🇸 and Pennsylvania, my home state, none the less. I think I will buy one of these knives.
I’ve been collecting for 47 years, these knives are Absolutely the best built I have ever seen
Love how Connie used dip cans to hold the rivets
After seeing this made using older equipment...im gonna start collecting for sure. Just a great company! I am tired of supporting overseas manufacturers and the huge companies like benchmade who don't have the hands on steps like you guys. Also Lt wright is another great company!
There's nothing like old machines making things
It is nice to see a company president who can actually get his hands on and make the product. Usually these days, it's just some MBA who has no clue how things happen at the low level.
Absolutely loved this series!! I'm a huge huge fan, the viper 47 and the oil field jack 86 are my favorite patterns!! Thanks for all the hard work, dedication, and the great selection!! Cant wait to see what comes next.
Just started collecting traditional slip joints and the first four I have my eyes on are all GEC.
Get poor Connie a stool for each station.
Maybe one with wheels?
Yea enable her fattiness
Nice to see how my favorite knives are made. Thanks for the insight. Great vid. Keep putting out great GEC blades.
Wow fit and finish is outstanding if everyone of there knifes are made just like this and he is the quality control checker lol and you can tell he works because of his hands
Wow it is a hand made knife 100%
14:38 fit and centring, something some of the other companies just don’t bother with.
GEC are clearly the best around - but boy oh boy teach them to smile
I got a couple of Ohio River Jacks. Best slip joints I’ve ever touched. And they are in stock and reasonably priced. m390 steel
I always thought the "scale" was the wood or stag or bone that was added to the outside. Learn something all the time. This is fascinating to watch.
Wonderful tour
I wish i could carry a carbon steel knife. I sweat a lot at work and they rust in my pocket:( Nothing beats carbon steel. It would be amazing if they made Straight razors. Nice video.
Riveting stuff is kinda fun.... unless you have to bend over a table and hurt your back
I regret not buying that large wharncliffe when i was shopping...
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That is plenty of work just to produce a certain number of knives and have them perfect.
7:36 Can't make knives without Swedish Fish!
Sir, SIR, Please disengage on your verbal assault on Swedish Fish. If we did not have them. The whole world would not work :)
I really want a Beer and Sausage
What model is that you are building
The #15 Boys Knife
You know if you guys would respond to people's comments on occasion you might have more subs.
Just look at how much time and effort it takes them to make just one knife. These guys probably have very little time for being online.
@@RafaelSantos-vg3jd Then there is no point in making videos.
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I wish you had a little better quality control. I have purchased two knives I fix played in a 23 bullet and the fix blade is so doll on the front half and sharp on the back half. And the 23 has a gap in between the handle and the inside flat piece of metal next to the blade for about a half inch on one side that a piece of paper can fit through. So sad to see quality like this. I have heard nothing but praise but from several years ago. I have a third knife on the way from a vendor off your website authorized dealer for a 97 Coke bottle Beavertail, I hope this one is better. I really wish your model 85 Beavertail would be available for purchase soon however if this third one doesn’t take the cake I’m done. Thank you for making it in America at least, now just make us proud of the quality...
Well, I now know why a lot of knives have that unsightly hole where ALL the pins are not flush with the tops of the scales. At 1:54 into the video the countersinking of the holes is discussed and shown, and doing it THIS way (on a drill press :-( to get it done quickly is not the best way to get consistently flush pins.
This step should really be done with a hand reamer, using something like a standard jewelers diamond setting bur in a pin vise with a palm handle. Want a better power countersinking arrangement, use a good flexible shaft machine (like the Foredom brand), with the same diamond setting bur AND a 2.5 power magnifying "Opti Visor" headband to get a better look at the work,.....and you'd have near perfect rivet countersunk holes every time! As a 35 year bench jeweler and diamond setter before I retired from that field I know this would be a better solution in a production setting. (GEC can thank me later :-)
Example of diamond setting bur I'm talking about:
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There is MUCH more control of this step this way, and dealing with the soft materials like wood, bone, and antler doesn't take that long. Certainly worth the extra minute or so to get all the scale pins flush. It IS, after all, the first thing knife collectors and users SEE when they're evaluating a knife for purchase. Unsightly recessed pins always turns me off.... and I KNOW I'm not alone! (it's talked about a lot on the forums)
By the way, on lots of vintage knifes the pins ARE all flush, so this is not rocket science. Both of my Case 11031SH and many other knives I own have all flush scale pins. Shows a higher standard in manufacturing and assembly,.....just sayin..... :-)
We do have control over the depth of the rivet, however, the rivets are intentionally sunk to a specific depth for reasons not mentioned in this video.
Umm,.. It appeared this step is "eyeballed" in. However, if there is a depth stop on the counter bore drill press to allow the automatic riveter to consistently punch the rivet without cracking the wood, then doing it this way doesn't allow for slight variations in scale thickness from the sanding process.
I'd think the scale rivets would be more consistent if hand set with a very small jeweler's peening hammer, (maybe over a watchmaker's "staking tool") and final sanding of the scale to level it all off perfectly. :-) I'm pretty sure you have to hand set the rivets on the stag handles anyway, due to the varying thicknesses of the material at the rivet points.
Results are what matters, and consistently flush pins is not the norm from knives I have seen online, and the process is being done much too quickly to have consistent control of the depth. The whole point of spending so much time on this is that, for whatever reason,...the scale pins aren't consistently flush. Get there any way you want,...but get there. :-)
I can assure you it is not eyeballed
Most knife aficionados really don't care "how" the process is arrived at in getting all scale pins flush and neat in appearance,...just that they are. So I'll leave that up to you, ...and with some famous last words by Larry TCG ...."Git Er Done!" :-)
Great Eastern Cutlery, why are some rivets purposely not flush?
I'm not knocking these knives, because everyone seems to swear by them, but this does make me wonder why they're so pricey. There seems to be 5 people on about 10 machines from 1974.
Did you not seem how much work goes into producing them? There are dozens of steps to make each knife. They are pretty affordable knives when you buy them at release, it’s just that people resell them for much more because they’re made in limited quantities.
Seems to me like they could be $1000 dollars each. Hours and hours of time in each blade.