Since 2006 Great Eastern Cutlery has been making premier slip joint, lockback, and fixed blade knives just like your father and grandfather fell in love with. Workhorse and display case knives alike are in the Great Eastern Cutlery, Northfield Cutlery, and Tidioute Cutlery brands. A Great Eastern Cutlery knife for every requirement!
The Northfield Cutlery UN-X-LD brand is their premier line of knives with the little extra bells and whistles that make the Great Eastern Cutlery craftsmen the envy of the cutlery industry. Next is their Tidioute Cutlery trademark knives that are Great Eastern's simplistic elegance at its best. Both Northfield Cutlery and Tidioute Cutlery knives are made with perfectly heat treated and tempered 1095 carbon steel. Finally, there is the Great Eastern Cutlery brand name which is the namesake's stainless product line.
Great Eastern Cutlery uses exotic hardwoods, American bone, geniune pearl, laminate abalone, and secretly stashed sambar stag for the handles that have become highly acclaimed in the cutlery industry. The Great Eastern craftsmen jig their own bone in a multitude of patterns, then dye them in-house with colors that are as unique as the knives they adorn.
The skilled cutlery craftsmen that have worked in the Titusville Pennsylvania area for nearly a decade insure that every knife leaving Great Eastern Cutlery is ready for a life of service.
Great Eastern started delivering the Scout ( 3 3/4" Bullet Trapper style ) and Pioneer ( 4 1/2" Bullet Trapper style ) in early 2007. The "GEC" product quickly caught the attention of collectors and hard core users nationwide. Later in 2007 Great Eastern introduced the "Cuban" frame, which was a cigar shaped equal end and housed both a muskrat and stockman blade configuration. In 2008, Great Eastern introduce the moose, harness jack, whittler stockman, and linerlock models at a frantic pace. The barlow, jack, ez open, sleeveboard, sunfish, congress, toothpick, melon whittler, executive whittler, and trapper models quickly followed. Enough variations to either keep the community happy or drive them insane (depending on how much time / money they have for collecting). Several factory pictures are available on our Great Eastern Cutlery pictorial page.
Behind Great Eastern Cutlery are two men that are well known to the cutlery industry. William L. Howard is the President and manages the day to day operations of the company. "Bill" has many years experience at another cutlery company just down the road in Titusville and brings a vast array of knowledge about cutlery design and production to Great Eastern. Kenneth R. Daniels is the Vice President and assists in all aspects of company operations. "Ken" has been a fixture in the collectible pocket knives culture for many years; both producing special factory order cutlery and as a director for the National Knife Collectors Association (NKCA). These two bring over 60 years of American cutlery experience to Great Eastern Cutlery.
