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Post by Alan on Jul 6, 2012 3:59:19 GMT -6
An original blade came with one of my CPMMs. I never noticed before but the spine says Gem Blade on one side and says Gem and lists patents on the other. This is all done in raised lettering, not just stamped in. Was that pretty common?
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Post by wchnu on Jul 6, 2012 7:34:42 GMT -6
I have a few that are stamped Gem Junior. But not raised letters. That is new to me.
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Post by ShadowsDad on Jul 6, 2012 22:23:46 GMT -6
I just checked my old GEM blades. The Duridium blades are stamped with raised lettering, and the older blades are also. What they did was to stamp the outside leaving what they wanted untouched and raised.
Can't tell you how common it was, but I suspect it was.
Do your blades also show tool marks ? I'm betting they were fairly early production when they machined the blade to thickness rather than having them rolled to thickness.
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Post by Alan on Jul 7, 2012 3:21:29 GMT -6
Looking at it again I can see that's just what they did, and it does have the tooling marks. Thanks for the info guys.
I'm not really a collector, so if anyone wants this for their collection PM me and I'll send it to you. It looks like new.
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