Gerber Legendary Blades

Nice. I still have my cliplock but I can’t find the cloth sheath adapter. I have a few old Gerbers from when they didn’t suck. Wish I still had my parabellum.
 
Zebs1 said:
I have these 2 from Gerber International:
Survival tiger (Made in Taiwan) & Silver Knight (made in Japan). Nice blades!
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The Gerber Silver Knight (I believe with G2 steel) was the first big OEM export order for a then long established but small knife maker called Sakai Hamono. That was in 1976/77. The Sakai family were so grateful that they renamed their company to Gerber Sakai, now known as G.Sakai. From there G.Sakai went on to make knives for many companies, Pacific Cutlery, Spyderco, SOG, Cold Steel, Boker, etc. Furthermore, when the design head for Gerber visited G.Sakai in Seki City, he developed a relationship that would last a couple of decades until his pasing. His name was Al Mar.
 
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KenHash said:
The Gerber Silver Knight (I believe with G2 steel) was the first big OEM export order for a then long established but small knife maker called Sakai Hamono. That was in 1976/77. The Sakai family were so grateful that they renamed their company to Gerber Sakai, now known as G.Sakai. From there G.Sakai went on to make knives for many companies, Pacific Cutlery, Spyderco, SOG, Cold Steel, Boker, etc. Furthermore, when the design head for Gerber visited G.Sakai in Seki City, he developed a relationship that would last a couple of decades until his pasing. His name was Al Mar.
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Wow! Thanks for interesting info.
 
DMG said:
Nice. I still have my cliplock but I can’t find the cloth sheath adapter. .... Wish I still had my parabellum.
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yeah, the less than ideal thing for me with those cliplocks was the plastic sheath (imo, its more like a minimally designed slip on safety edge cover) which had an integral open end clip for one to get that nylon
fabric accessory to sort of make up for a land based (understandably the cliplock meant for whitewater) belt loop.
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:)
also with blackie colins plastic touch was the over built parabellum.
cool optional sheath setup on that there parabellum though...
 
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Zebs1 said:
I have been collecting these nice daggers for som time now. I got hooked on Gerber in the mid 80-ties. Love the Mark 1 och 2 the Command and Guardian models.
Here are som pictures of the GerberCollins Clip Lock.
https://imgur.com/a/mOv2l4P
https://imgur.com/nmIKdhR
https://imgur.com/8eylJ5b
https://imgur.com/dZ58N8T
https://imgur.com/idSjD8t
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Nice set.👍👍👍
I was able to acquire one version of these,
unfortunately, it did not include the clip sheath😟
-Perhaps a custom sheath is in order...
These are actually called the Gerber River Master Clip Lock fixed blade survival knife with sheath,
designed by Blackie Collins.
This knife is a favorite of whitewater adventurers and divers.
B.T.B
 
Zebs1 said:
Nice! That Mark 1 35anniversary is a sweet and solid knife!
But its a bit strange. The mark 1 modell was not made for 35 years (between years 1976-1997).
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I know. But, I guess it was 35 years since it was 'first' made. I wonder if they will do another special release like that. They certainly didn't do anything for 45 year anniversary last year. 🤔
 
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