Great Eastern Cutlery

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Forcing a Patina on Your Great Eastern Cutlery Knife (and Keeping Rust Off)

Among other things, Great Eastern Cutlery knives are known for their traditional patterns, like Stockman knives, and for the fact that GEC makes them with 1095 steel blades. This is an affordable alloy and a tough one, one that will hold an edge reasonably well while still being fairly easy to resharpen. Especially considering the […]

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Keeping Rust Off Great Eastern Cutlery Knives

In an era in which competitors like Case and Rough Ryder rely heavily on stainless steel alloys, half to appeal to a buying populace that doesn’t care to learn how to care for steel, or is too lazy to do so, Great Eastern Cutlery still does things the old fashioned way.  Their traditional pocket knives […]

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