crazy nicky
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Has anyone picked one of these up yet? Just curious...I haven't been able to find one online yet and was curious what peoples thoughts on them are!
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Gerber Silver Trident
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i was dissapointed that i had to find out about these from a magazine, i am very dissapointed in you guys
crazy nicky
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Ya I saw that on the back of TK too...Looks like a cool knife, But for that price I would get the Chris Reeve Yarborough!
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Right, way to much for a Gerber! If it were in $100 to $150 range I would get it...I found it online for $285. Like I said earlier for that price I'd get the Yarborough!
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The street price is three hundred.The first run autographed knives were a hundred more than that.I found a first run yesterday in a local shop.This is one nice knife.Well built but consider the source have you seen a CRK that wasnt.The one I am going to get next is the Nkonka hell any of his one piece knives are nice.......RB http://www.chrisreeve.com/nkonka.htmlOriginally posted by bob bowie
Low $300's retail, the street price is a $100 bucks under that. It looks like a real nice knife, but for the cash, I'd probably go custom
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Doh!! It just dawned on me you were quoting the gerber price sorry :footinmou
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Just saw the ad in new TK -
First thing I thought was "Hey, this looks alot like Bob Rippy's DEA Aviation fixed blade!"
Second thing I thought was "Oh no, not ANOTHER SEAL KNIFE!!!"
Over a decade ago Robert Rippy, Texas knife designer and maker extraordinary, got a contract to make a number of fixed blades for the DEA Aviation boyz. We covered it in FK along with photos and such. The ST looks remarkably like the DEA knife, which was never - to my knowledge - sold outside of the DEA Aviation contract by Bob.
Now THAT would be the knife to have.
A Simonich Combat Raven, STRIDER D9, or Harsey-Reeve GB would be my array of choices, as well.
GW
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First thing I thought was "Hey, this looks alot like Bob Rippy's DEA Aviation fixed blade!"
Second thing I thought was "Oh no, not ANOTHER SEAL KNIFE!!!"
Over a decade ago Robert Rippy, Texas knife designer and maker extraordinary, got a contract to make a number of fixed blades for the DEA Aviation boyz. We covered it in FK along with photos and such. The ST looks remarkably like the DEA knife, which was never - to my knowledge - sold outside of the DEA Aviation contract by Bob.
Now THAT would be the knife to have.
A Simonich Combat Raven, STRIDER D9, or Harsey-Reeve GB would be my array of choices, as well.
GW
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I'll be keeping my CRK GB knife.
Mr Walker , whatever happened to the Walker /Thornton design shown in your Combat blades book?
Were many of these made, or was it a one off custom piece?
Paul.
Mr Walker , whatever happened to the Walker /Thornton design shown in your Combat blades book?
Were many of these made, or was it a one off custom piece?
Paul.
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Robert Rippy and I agreed to a specific number of custom W-Ts being made by Bob, with all design rights to the custom and a production version retained by me. I have the agreement and drawings tucked away safely and am considering one maker in particular to possibly bring the production design out once I'm back from "da sandbox"
(Yep, Mick Strider and the lads/gals at STRIDER KNIVES).
I had two W-T customs made and marked by Bob. One of these (#1) in 1/4" stock (ATS-34) was given to Woody Woodcock who, I believe, has since sold it to a collector (which is a fitting place for it). I kept #2, which is in leaner stock (lighter and faster in the hand which I preferred to the thicker stock model). The unique thing about these knives as opposed to the custom blades made by Bob for his clients is that yellow Micarta was used for the grips on my two. These are the only ones that were done like this.
The W-T is pure fighter and perhaps the best balanced such knife (it balances on its pommel when placed straight up and down on a flat surface) that I've ever experienced. This was Al Mar's influence. Those who have the W-T working knives in dark Micarta handles have - in my professional opinion - one of the finest H2H knives you could possibly own both design and manufacture wise. Rippy was a wizard with steel and no one could come close to his grinds, finishes, edges, and designs. I miss him very much both as a friend and as a maker par excellent.
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(Yep, Mick Strider and the lads/gals at STRIDER KNIVES).
I had two W-T customs made and marked by Bob. One of these (#1) in 1/4" stock (ATS-34) was given to Woody Woodcock who, I believe, has since sold it to a collector (which is a fitting place for it). I kept #2, which is in leaner stock (lighter and faster in the hand which I preferred to the thicker stock model). The unique thing about these knives as opposed to the custom blades made by Bob for his clients is that yellow Micarta was used for the grips on my two. These are the only ones that were done like this.
The W-T is pure fighter and perhaps the best balanced such knife (it balances on its pommel when placed straight up and down on a flat surface) that I've ever experienced. This was Al Mar's influence. Those who have the W-T working knives in dark Micarta handles have - in my professional opinion - one of the finest H2H knives you could possibly own both design and manufacture wise. Rippy was a wizard with steel and no one could come close to his grinds, finishes, edges, and designs. I miss him very much both as a friend and as a maker par excellent.
GW
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Gerber, a mid range, large production knifemaker, makes a knife that's pretty ordinary, using a nice, but not rare, nor special stainless steel, puts a normal aftermarket nylon/kydex lined sheath in the deal and wants more than what many custom/semicustom makers want for a similar knife...
I want some of what those Gerber Execs are smoking...
I want some of what those Gerber Execs are smoking...
crazy nicky
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Mel, I know how you feel! I almost sh!t nuts and bolts when I heard how much that piece was! I think they are banking on it to be as popular as the Mark II. But in my opinion Gerber has slipped in the Tactical knife market since they stopped making the Marks, Guardians and the BMF/LMF series of knives. All we get now is the Yari (Which isn't bad)and the Black Guardian with that terrrrrrible sheath... but I want more and a Yari with serrations doesn't cut it!
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I concur with the ad : "If war is Hell, take along a better pitchfork than the Devil".Let's face it, gang,
we could argue price 'til the cows come home ; but Our habit is EXPENSIVE. Yes?
AET
we could argue price 'til the cows come home ; but Our habit is EXPENSIVE. Yes?
AET
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yes, expensive, but I haven't run into one forumite ('cept maybe for Cliff Stamp... Hello Cliff
) who likes to throw away money...I wish gerber the best, but for that kind of money, I can have a Dozier, a Randall, or a Reeve.
Of course, when the reviews start rolling in, perhaps this Gerber will outshine them all, but till then...
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A VERY expensive habit yes indeed... I hear ya, Mel...the review will say it all!
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Having worked with Gerber for a number of years I'd offer with the changes in management and on-again / off-again "interest" in the combat/fighting knife market they don't have a clue...
One needs to remember it's really FISKARS - gerber with all that goes with the corporate parent ideology, which was disinterested in tactical bladeware but IN favor of axes, scissors, and tools from Day One. That imprint is wide and deep at Gerber these days. The BMF was the last decent Gerber field knife offered, in my opinion. Everything since has been half-stepping in design, quality, and manufacture. The Applegate folders were a bright spot but only because Applegate was there in Oregon and had the business acumen to ensure they did a very good job with his product...and those were FOLDERS.
The Silver Trident - at the price quoted - with the marketing "concept" of appealing to the fighting/combat/tactical fixed blade market, is very much - in my opinion - as wrongminded as the not so successful "Hell's Belle" combat bowie knife project from Ontario Cutlery. As Mel-Mutt so aptly described, what is a mass production cutlery company thinking when they bring out a product that retails for 125% more than anything else they've ever done in the same catagory of bladeware, given their very average reputation for design, quality, and manufacture?
On top of this add in the clear misunderstanding that (in the case of the HB) a bowie knife - regardless of maker/designer - is NEVER going to be taken seriously these days by the military nor the majority of military personnel / civilians who would actually be carrying a field/combat knife. TOO BIG - TOO EXPENSIVE - WELL OUTSIDE THE AVERAGE CDR LEVEL THOUGHT PROCESS FOR APPROVAL OF CARRY - WON'T FIT ANYWHERE ON ANY HARNESS UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE - AGAINST THE LAW IN MANY STATES TO CARRY CONCEALED - and so on. So WHAT if a group of Special Forces guys hosted a seminar at Bragg where the bowie knife was taught? That means zip.
And what designers/makers have the ONLY approved/issued SF knife for US Special Forces today?
Harsey/Reeve...and the knife they have developed has the full endorsement of the SF community (past and present) and costs what the Gerber ST does (perhaps a bit less for Group guys) AND is better knife all the way around.
And it ain't no "bowie" knife.
In addition the SEAL knife "thing" died several years ago. Heck, the SEAL "thing" died across the board due to its being bled to death by any Tom, Dick, and Harry with a "product" they could tag the SEAL logo on. My prediction is the Gerber ST will go the way of the Ontario "Hell's Belle"...look for great discounted prices in the near future.
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One needs to remember it's really FISKARS - gerber with all that goes with the corporate parent ideology, which was disinterested in tactical bladeware but IN favor of axes, scissors, and tools from Day One. That imprint is wide and deep at Gerber these days. The BMF was the last decent Gerber field knife offered, in my opinion. Everything since has been half-stepping in design, quality, and manufacture. The Applegate folders were a bright spot but only because Applegate was there in Oregon and had the business acumen to ensure they did a very good job with his product...and those were FOLDERS.
The Silver Trident - at the price quoted - with the marketing "concept" of appealing to the fighting/combat/tactical fixed blade market, is very much - in my opinion - as wrongminded as the not so successful "Hell's Belle" combat bowie knife project from Ontario Cutlery. As Mel-Mutt so aptly described, what is a mass production cutlery company thinking when they bring out a product that retails for 125% more than anything else they've ever done in the same catagory of bladeware, given their very average reputation for design, quality, and manufacture?
On top of this add in the clear misunderstanding that (in the case of the HB) a bowie knife - regardless of maker/designer - is NEVER going to be taken seriously these days by the military nor the majority of military personnel / civilians who would actually be carrying a field/combat knife. TOO BIG - TOO EXPENSIVE - WELL OUTSIDE THE AVERAGE CDR LEVEL THOUGHT PROCESS FOR APPROVAL OF CARRY - WON'T FIT ANYWHERE ON ANY HARNESS UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE - AGAINST THE LAW IN MANY STATES TO CARRY CONCEALED - and so on. So WHAT if a group of Special Forces guys hosted a seminar at Bragg where the bowie knife was taught? That means zip.
And what designers/makers have the ONLY approved/issued SF knife for US Special Forces today?
Harsey/Reeve...and the knife they have developed has the full endorsement of the SF community (past and present) and costs what the Gerber ST does (perhaps a bit less for Group guys) AND is better knife all the way around.
And it ain't no "bowie" knife.
In addition the SEAL knife "thing" died several years ago. Heck, the SEAL "thing" died across the board due to its being bled to death by any Tom, Dick, and Harry with a "product" they could tag the SEAL logo on. My prediction is the Gerber ST will go the way of the Ontario "Hell's Belle"...look for great discounted prices in the near future.
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