Background: Over the last several years, Great Eastern Cutlery has become quite popular. Maybe not on the grand scheme of knife production; but for a small Titusville factory with around 30 employees. For the first several years only the smaller retailers sold GEC knives. I don’t know if the big boys didn’t have faith or
4/3: Buttons, Buttons, Who Got a Button Several years ago GEC thought it would be a novel idea to randomly drop a button (or pin as some call them), into tubes. The buttons are made up specifically for the pattern being produced. In the beginning it felt like the odds were about 1 in 3;
In a somewhat obsessive fashion, I try to provide as much information in the description area as possible. Having said that, I will admit that I am lazy, thus will never get around to fixing all the products that pre-date any one of my “enhancements”. The latest tidbit of information that has bothered me is
The general “why” of the Early Reservation System (ERS) has been discussed previously. But I would like to take a few minutes to talk about some of the underlying policies and functions of the ERS. If you do not actually wonder how the system works or have questions about how it makes decisions – this
One of our most common inquiries is how to order from outside the United States. We have another blog article about “Why Doesn’t CollectorKnives Ship Internationally?“; and it eludes to the general recommendation of using a re-shipper. But for the most part it just explains the facts of why we have chosen to cease international
We get some crazy questions, as you can imagine. But, mostly, we get the same questions on a daily basis. So we will try and answer some of them here so you don’t have to take the time to call / email. Q: How do Rewards accrue? How do I use them? A: You can
Maybe once every couple weeks someone calls or emails and asks why my knives have a condition of “Mint” instead of “New”. Well, if you really want to know, settle in and I will tell you. Background: My background is in collectible traditional knives. For the last 30 years or so this particular niche has
-The Insider Story on Why Knives Ship Free- As an introduction: Today there are many places you can get your knives online. Storefronts are getting fewer and fewer mainly because the foot traffic is getting less and less across the country. Most people do not shop storefronts anymore. Even though many people go to gun
