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I found this new Gerber Profile folder at Dick's Sporting Goods last week, thought it looked interesting and for $24.99 it seemed an OK risk.
BLADE:4 inches of "surgical steel" (Gerber's mystery steel, whatever that is?, if I had to bet I'd say 440A) with a Titanium coating.
HANDLE: full steel liners with rubber "gator grip" scales. (VERY grippy and gets more so when wet)
ORIGIN
ackage says "Made in China", but it is not on the knife itself. (shame on Gerber for that, skirting the law a tad.)
I don't have a ruler handy, but overall it's a little bigger than a Griptilian.
No pocket clip, comes with a nylon sheath.
Out of the package, the blade was very sharp, shaved arm hair and could cleanly split a 8.5X11 sheet of typing paper top to bottom.
I broke down a few cardboard boxes with it, and reduced a 40 foot piece of nylon maritime cord to a pile of 3 inch sections with it.
Edge would no longer shave, but a short round with a lansky sharpener and it's back to shaving!
The handle and blade have ridges for a thumb rest on them that works fine.
The handle comes recessed for right handers to use the thumbstud.
It is not for southpaws however.
It was usable this way, but annoying, and since I am left handed, I used a razor blade to trim down the scale for me. Probably could have made it look better, but hey, it's a $25.00 beater!
The liner lock:
Man that looks awful thin! But there is zero play in the blade, in any direction, it's locked up solid, even after I spine whacked it 10 times on a board (after taking some safety measures), to try and make it fail.
No slips, and still solid!
Not the be all end all of folders, but not to bad for the money.
BLADE:4 inches of "surgical steel" (Gerber's mystery steel, whatever that is?, if I had to bet I'd say 440A) with a Titanium coating.
HANDLE: full steel liners with rubber "gator grip" scales. (VERY grippy and gets more so when wet)
ORIGIN
ackage says "Made in China", but it is not on the knife itself. (shame on Gerber for that, skirting the law a tad.)I don't have a ruler handy, but overall it's a little bigger than a Griptilian.
No pocket clip, comes with a nylon sheath.
Out of the package, the blade was very sharp, shaved arm hair and could cleanly split a 8.5X11 sheet of typing paper top to bottom.
I broke down a few cardboard boxes with it, and reduced a 40 foot piece of nylon maritime cord to a pile of 3 inch sections with it.
Edge would no longer shave, but a short round with a lansky sharpener and it's back to shaving!
The handle and blade have ridges for a thumb rest on them that works fine.
The handle comes recessed for right handers to use the thumbstud.
It is not for southpaws however.
It was usable this way, but annoying, and since I am left handed, I used a razor blade to trim down the scale for me. Probably could have made it look better, but hey, it's a $25.00 beater!
The liner lock:
Man that looks awful thin! But there is zero play in the blade, in any direction, it's locked up solid, even after I spine whacked it 10 times on a board (after taking some safety measures), to try and make it fail.
No slips, and still solid!
Not the be all end all of folders, but not to bad for the money.
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