Help me identify a Gerber

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KevH

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I had a friend some years back that owned a Gerber that I'd like to find.

The blade was about 8" or so long, double-edged and was coated black. The handle was wrapped in green 550 cord (didn't appear there was anything but metal underneath-looked factory) and the knife had a camo-colored sheath. He said the knife was gift from his dad around 1990 before he went into the Army so I figure it was produced around that time.

I've never seen another Gerber like it, but I'm POSITIVE it was a Gerber. It did not have the MkII's profile. I lost contact with this friend about eight years ago so I can't get a picture of the knife.

Does anyone own or have they seen a knife like this?
 
Sounds like the larger version of the below knife (Gerber Guardian)

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"KevH"
The wrapped in green cord thingy seemed odd enough to be something from Gerber.
Still, I'ld have to admit there are things still yet undiscovered!
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did it look like the above knife on the left, with od green paracord wrapped around it?
 
i dont think gerber ever cord wrapped handles, not ever FWIW, so i doubt its a gerber, i bet it was one of the EK knives some look like what ya are describing.

look at www.ekknife.com/knives.html and see if they look familiar..........scroll down to the marine raider one, they make a few cord wrapped ones and have for quite a while now.
 
I was thinking the same thing as boring. It was probably wrapped by a previous owner
 
just wrapping the std gerber handles would be, well, kinda odd looking imho lol.
 
boring,

Does the larger knife in your picture have a painted metal handle? That could be it!

He must have had someone do one hell of a job wrapping it with paracord since it REALLY looked like it came from the factory that way.

What model is that and what blade material did they use? Where can I find one?
 
KevH said:
boring,
Does the larger knife in your picture have a painted metal handle? That could be it!
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Sounds like the standard Gerber Guardian 2 but with the camo version's sheath

Edited to added: Oops, I thought you had asked if it had a black metal handle, so forget what I said earlier
 
the larger of the two is the gerber guardian 2. the handle is painted metal. not sure on the blade steel. gerber discontinued them a while back so your best bet is a vintage knife dealer or ebay. thier was also a black handled version.
 
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