Does anyone like Gerber?

I've owned a few, sold most of them. In my experience most are extremely overpriced for what you get, and some of the ones I've seen are just flat out useless. I'm keeping my Big Rock camp knife, though, which is quite a good blade all around.
 
I carried an EZ-out for years, quite a good knife for the price. I still have a parabellum and a bolt-action from the early 80's, good knives. I've also got a recent small Gator that I do not like. The blade geometry seems to be wrong and it's got some corrosion issues.
 
I like Gerber. During the BMF,LMF (original), Mark II, Parabellum, Guardian days they were some of my favorites. They still make some good stuff but you have to pick and choose. I think its like someone said, its not that gerber got so bad it's just that everyone else improved alot and there are alot of companies putting out similar stuff.
 
Tons of people like Gerber. They are a most popular brand. They are very well known.

It's just knife guru's like most of us who know they make a lot of junk with a few exceptions, mostly USA made, that are worth having.

I have a Gerber 450 Presentation. It's my finest knife.
 
Some models of Gerber are great. I have a Freeman Folding Hunter in S30V that is an excellent knife. The fit/finish is well done and the lockup is perfect. Admittedly I did have to re-profile it, but it is very much a part of my EDC group.
 
Back in the late '70s Gerber was one of my favorites. Owned several of their lock back folders in various sizes and a couple fixed blades. The fixed blades are all I have left.

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As many have mentioned, the Fiskars era signaled the end of my Gerber purchasing.
 
Yes I like them as long as you invest enough money into the purchase to get an american made one.
 
Also:

I was able to handle a couple of their older knives, which were really nice. One was an old Mark 2 (when they were just starting to make them with serrations and still had L6 tool steel blades), another was an 80's Mk. 2 with a 440C (I think) blade, and the last one was a big forking bowie knife (I think it was the BMF). They all seemed really well made, with the L6 Mk. 2 being my favourite of the bunch. That Cat's Paw grip is really cool...I wish companies still used that for handles.
 
I only own 3 things made by gerber;

China made stl 2.0 (paid 6$) works nice on my keychain
Shard - pretty useful little tool.
and an MP400 multi-tool which was given to me but it's very poorly made.

I just tend to stay away from their stuff...mainly their knives and MT's
 
I have some gerbers too, but the old stuff.
2 BMFs (with saw and w/o saw in the back), LMF, Mark II, the big Applegate folder (the one without the clip) and 2 smaller ones.
I think they're very well made knives...

BTW, can somebody tell me what's the steel used on those old BMFs ? Somebody told me long ago it's 420C... But I was not convinced...

Regards,

Andre Tiba - Brazil
 
I own two Gerbers, the Appegate-Fairbairn Combat and Covert, made in the U.S.A. Great knives and built like a tank.
 
The only thing that I am still willing to carry is the Multi-tool. One of the older 400 series. I carry it daily on duty and it has never failed to work for me. I also agree that fiskars was the begining of the end for the company. I grew up loving Gerber knives, too bad they aren't what they used to be.
 
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that I also have two of their Kitchen knives. A paring knife and the 10" chef's knife. Both are nice.

The chef's knife gets still gets used. Paring knife less use because I have a couple of homemade ones now.

Just touched up the chef's knife yesterday.

Ric
 
My first knife was a Pakistan knockoff of the Buck 110. After that I bought Gerbers for years. They are good knives, but not great knives. As I became more educated in the varieties of steel and tried other brands, I found I liked other things.

SP
 
I like some of the Gerber stuff.
My 8 year old got me a Gerber LST for Christmas. It opened plenty of packages and is very inoffensive ot "non-knife" people.
It does what a knife is supposed to do, and that is cut things.
 
Theres plenty of Gerber knives that i like. Most of the stuff made in the states is pretty good. The Gator and Gator II are excellent folders, with good ergonomics. The LMF II is a fixed blade which i thought was pretty good too.

I had a Multiplier 600 too, which i used as my primary work EDC for a couple of years. It held up fine through all that time, untill i cut some hard wire with it, forgetting that it lacked a hardwire notch in the plierhead.

So yeah, i like the US-made Gerbers.
 
Had a couple of Gerbers in the 80s, a Guardian and a Bolt-Action. Still have the Guardian, traded the Bolt-Action. Good knives for the money. The Guardian made three trips to Iraq as a back up.

Do not like their multi-tools, prefer SOG or Leatherman
 
almtiba said:
I have some gerbers too, but the old stuff.
2 BMFs (with saw and w/o saw in the back), LMF, Mark II, the big Applegate folder (the one without the clip) and 2 smaller ones.
I think they're very well made knives...

BTW, can somebody tell me what's the steel used on those old BMFs ? Somebody told me long ago it's 420C... But I was not convinced...

Regards,

Andre Tiba - Brazil
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The older fixed blades like the BMF and LMF were 440A. Gerber used a lot of that before they moved production overseas.
 
quality can be touch-and-go with their low-mid range folders. but i do have their curved bush machete, a covert mini, several EABs (one of the best gentleman's box cutters ever IMO) and a couple of Artifacts.

it's odd, because i believe they're owned by Fiskars, who always turns out a quality product (at least mid-high range products).
 
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