Thank you for watching!

Thanks for watching!

Omg the same thing just happened to me...timed it to the second..picked the first mammoth that I liked...my first mistake..should of picked the first one I saw.. it was snatched from my basket. Went back for a green camel bone, same thing snatched from my basket. I console myself , at least I saved some money...they cost even more for me with shipping to the U.K. and the import tax.. Oh well until the next drop fingers crossed 🤞.

Same here, except I figured the better cover options would be hardest, so I went for micarta. Sniped out of my cart before paypal could complete the purchase.

Same

Same issue. If its in your cart it should be removed from inventory.

What a shit show. Should be safe in your cart for at least 15-20 min. I don’t think I’ll be ordering with that kind of experience. I’ll stick with my Lionsteel barlows. 😎🤘🏻

I’m glad you got one!

What knives are you looking at now? I don't care too much about collectability, I was just attracted to the fact that they made large traditional knives with 1095

YES. Scalpers are bastard middleman, producing nothing and making money while making it hard for someone that wants one while they buy two or three and the one they keep is the best and is free/ profit for them! Dirty dealers

Me too!

Thanks for watching sorry for your experiences

Fact is, GEC might have one bad egg out of 100 knives. Your sacrifice of the three has ensured at least 297 other fantastic pieces! With Case, 95 of 100 will be junk.

Northwoods is a brand owned by KnivesShipFree

@@KnifeThoughts thanks

No problem!

That sounds frustrating! I hope you’re able to get the GECs you want 👍

I noticed that as well. They've been up on BladeHQ the entire day. Plenty of time for someone to grab one, and they aren't badly priced.

@@ryejack just got mine in. I knew they were small but I guess I didn’t realize how small but it’s still amazing. Super useful bladeshape

@@jackfarley1348 Nice! I didn't expect them to be so thin either, but yeah, they're surprisingly useful little knives.

I think I’ve done one, and I have done a couple articles on it. It’s an official event held by GEC at the factory. Anyone can come!

@@KnifeThoughts Awesome, I'll check them out. Great content by the way!

I had a couple in my cart that went out of stock before I could check out, Apple Pay wasn’t working, but I did end up getting a camel bone.

Hi there. Thanks for your comment! I am not an official representative of Great Eastern Cutlery. I am sorry you haven’t had a positive experience, it sounds like your experience has been much different than mine. I highly suggest giving GEC a call and discussing these issues; they’re good people and proud of their work, so I’m sure they’ll try to help.

Or, you know, people who buy them to enjoy them? Haha but yeah I’m surprised there haven’t been clones, but I think there are barriers to it

Knife Thoughts I understand people buy them for conventional reasons, but if the secondary market weren’t such a factor I wouldn’t I wouldn’t see it littered with models for 3-4 times their original price. And Chinese companies care little about patent or copyright laws. They could make clones or GEC knives and never face any consequences due to the protectionism practiced in Chinese courts.

I think Rough Ryder Reserves are an attempt by Smoky Mountain Knife Works to address that demand. Never handled a GEC, but I’ve been impressed with the Chinese made Rough Ryder Reserves: D2 steel, washers on the pivots, micarta handles... worth a gander.

Sorry to hear that. I’ve missed a couple.

Northwoods is a brand owned by the retailer Knives Ship Free. KSF sells other brands.

Yep. The reality is that they’re not intentionally making fewer knives than they could in a conspiracy to up the secondary price / demand. I understand that it can be frustrating, but frustration doesn’t dictate reality.

That’s how small businesses work my man. They can either take a whole lot longer to produce way more, expand manpower and equipment (that equipment isn’t available) or lower the quality of what they’re producing. None of these options make any sense. If you were to ever meet Bill or any of the movers and shakers at GEC, you’d realize that the whole game of fake hype, limited release to keep interest and all the other games these modern day Instagram hipster companies do, just ain’t there thing. They’re just a small company with a small town mindset. Quality over quantity. The thing is, GEC popularity has probably tripled in the last few years and the factory is doing its very best to keep up without sacrifice. I know it’s frustrating, but this company definitely is t at the level of paranoia and conspiracy. Hey Logan...another great video man, keep it up buddy!

Didn't say anything about a conspiracy. Don't pretend to understand the reasoning behind limiting production numbers. Just reporting the math. That's the beauty of the 21st Century. People get to believe whatever they want to. I hope you believe me when I say I love your videos. I really do, especially the good ones.

I know, no negativity from me here! I appreciate you always following along. I’m just saying that I think that the reality is that they’re not intentionally making fewer knives than they could to drive demand. Or at least any more so than is good business practice (ie it wouldn’t make sense to make a year long run of 10,000 knives in one pattern).

@@tibet1976 I wholeheartedly disagree, If GEC were to increase their production runs to 500 pieces (per handle material) rather than the seemingly standard 125, it wouldn't be much of a burden. The constant "changing over" & set up are the most time consuming processes. Once a pattern is "set up" to run, the production from that point isn't a serious time killer, nor would you need to hire more people. The only difference would be, instead of coming out with 4 patterns per year - you come out with 3. You would have more loyal customers that could actually buy a GEC knife at retail. People like Zen aren't asking for 10,000 piece runs, just enough to kill the second hand scalper market so true knife enthusiasts can enjoy a quality knife at a fair price.

Love/ hate relationship. I love the Spyderco's models I have, but not super jazzed on the quality, way of doing business and that it contributes to Eric Glessners prosperity. I'm moving to making my own to escape all the marketing and business dealings which are cringe worthy

@@ssunfish What's wrong with Spyderco's way of doing business, and why don't you like Eric Glesser?

Frankly, I shouldn’t feel like I need to apologize for buying knives that I genuinely love. You and others direct your anger at me, when there are many many other people who buy 1) more GEC knives than me 2) GEC knives that they have no interest in. Do you think that I make back the money that I spend on knives through KZfaq? Not even a fraction. Do you think that it doesn’t take a lot of time to be involved and research to get these knives and spread the knowledge surrounding them? It does. I’ve been involved for years and I do my best to research the knives and related topics and share that knowledge with those who are interested. I haven’t had great luck with Case, but I plan to get their 2021 Vault knife.

@@KnifeThoughts i am not accusing YOU of anything. Just making an observation. If you took my remarks the wrong way I can't help that.

I apologize for coming at you hard, but you can see why I thought you meant me, right? It’s a comment on my video that is obviously critical of me; “This video makes you sound like a pr man for the company”. So I don’t really buy that your comment wasn’t about me. You just didn’t expect me to reply. Thanks for watching, have a good one.

Not the worst in my experience, but not as good as they should be.

They used to be way worse.

Yeah it’s a 4 year old video, I don’t remember what I said but I’m sure it was fuzzy lol

@@KnifeThoughts You put together a nice channel, thanks.

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@@KnifeThoughts knife "collectors" are the reason I can't replace my Bull Buster working knife that saw years of hard use, but hey, it's a free market I guess. I am bitter. These are tools, not funko pops or Pokémon cards.

In my opinion, if you're looking for a knife purely as a tool there are endless better cheaper and more available options than a GEC. Every GEC bought is bought at least in part because of the aesthetics. Here's a USA made knife with a similar design that's available and much cheaper, if you're just looking for a similar tool: www.chicagoknifeworks.com/bear-son-large-farmhand-slip-joint/

What companies do you buy from?

I have bokers otters fredrick hartkopfs lots of solingen brands. I actually just ordered my first fighting rooster. I have a handful of GEC's and dont get me wrong I love them. But alot of people are gonna give up on the brand if they continue the way they do. It's not worth the headache when there are other brands to buy from.

@@mattwuttke What brands do you recommend? I would like to check them out!

Check out brother knives. For the price there a great value and VG-10 D2 are good working steels to boot.

@@Bear-cp9yx also check out otter messer and solingen made Robert klaus. There exceptional knives and are in the same price range as gec's retail prices. Also boker has step there game up recently on fit and finish. My boker club knife is flawless.