Anybody familiar enough with these to know if there was a Gerber Applegate Combat Folder with item# 5790 that was not ground with a double edge but only a single straight bevel. It also has a liner lock safety.
I've found a couple of these for sale on the secondary market and my first impression was that they were fakes.
From what I can tell of the pictures they are not obvious fakes as the quality looks good but here is what makes me suspicious. They are purported to be a first production run but are not marked as other Gerber knives are. The base of the blade is stamped USA on one side and Gerber on the other and there is the signature of Applegate and Fairbairn but the blade is not marked 'Combat Folder' as others are and there is no Gerber logo. I was under the impression that the liner lock safety was not added to the Combat Folder until some years later. Also a search for Gerber 5790 returns very little except the place where I found theses and some other shady looking online retailers and oddly a Japanese site.
Anyway, my radar was set off but is it possible these were made later on, hence the liner lock safety and without the 'dangerous' double bevel for sale in more restrictive markets. BTW I know the second edge is not sharpened but it is easily sharpened. This knife in question is a regular single edge knife blade only it is symmetrically shaped.
I've found a couple of these for sale on the secondary market and my first impression was that they were fakes.
From what I can tell of the pictures they are not obvious fakes as the quality looks good but here is what makes me suspicious. They are purported to be a first production run but are not marked as other Gerber knives are. The base of the blade is stamped USA on one side and Gerber on the other and there is the signature of Applegate and Fairbairn but the blade is not marked 'Combat Folder' as others are and there is no Gerber logo. I was under the impression that the liner lock safety was not added to the Combat Folder until some years later. Also a search for Gerber 5790 returns very little except the place where I found theses and some other shady looking online retailers and oddly a Japanese site.
Anyway, my radar was set off but is it possible these were made later on, hence the liner lock safety and without the 'dangerous' double bevel for sale in more restrictive markets. BTW I know the second edge is not sharpened but it is easily sharpened. This knife in question is a regular single edge knife blade only it is symmetrically shaped.