Really a Gerber knife? Please check / ID

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tgaif

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Hi,

I found this knife at a local fleamarket and liked it for it's simple and black design. I tried to google it, learned that Gerber has still some decent knifes (but also "cheaper ones" for some years now) -- and I found this forum.

Would you please help me to find some details about this knife? (Name, possible blade steel, ...)
I guess it's rather basic quality, if really from Gerber at all, but I would be happy, if it would turn out to be a better knife of course...

So far and whithout name I couldn't spot this on the net.

Full tang blade 5mm width and wooden handles, leather sheath, all black.


Gerber 1 - IMAG0372 von tgaif auf Flickr


Gerber 3 - MAG0375 von tgaif auf Flickr


Gerber 2 - IMAG0373 von tgaif auf Flickr

Thanks
Thomas

p.s.: The meter in the first pictures shows inches at the top and cm at the bottom.
 
Pakistani flea-market forgery. Some of these can, maybe, be made of halfway decent steel. Even fewer will have been given a proper heat treat. Sometimes one gets lucky and it'll work well enough...like one in a thousand maybe. Hope you didn't pay very much.
 
So if it's a bad pakistani knockoff then you probably pay too much regardless what you pay, don't you:-) Now I'm undecided if I still like it:-) It's still decorative, but is this enough?

Anyway, it was only something like 15$ so I can cope with it.

Thanks
Thomas
 
Only way to know is take it out and use it. Chop off some branches and baton some wood. Shave some feather sticks and build a shelter and fire.

When your finished see if it kept any edge at all or if it rolls or chips. Let us know how it turns out.
 
That's kind of odd. Definitely a knockoff of a british survival knife, and definitely not something gerber makes.

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hughewil said:
Only way to know is take it out and use it. Chop off some branches and baton some wood. Shave some feather sticks and build a shelter and fire.

When your finished see if it kept any edge at all or if it rolls or chips. Let us know how it turns out.
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That's what I am saying...take it out and see what you've got. It is hard to believe right now, but some people will argue that steel may well have been "invented" in India (of which Pakistan used to be a part). During the Roman period, the Indians were, arguably, the most advanced metalurgists in the world. Please be aware that opinions differ on this. Also, some presume that what was called Damascus in the middle ages was probably invented in India.

My only point is that metalurgy in India and Pakistan need not be bad...it is just that there is no quality control and today, they are specifically known for poor quality. But if the thing stands up to some serious abuse, what the heck.
 
Call_to_Arms said:
Damascus is in Syria
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Yeah I know where Damascus is. Damascus is where the Crusaders first saw the technology on or about 1099 (the first Crusade) so that's what they named it. It was a very different steel making technology than they were used to from the European tradition and they admired it greatly. However, it appears likely from archeaological and historical sources that the origin of the technology itself was in India roughly around the time of Christ and it moved along the various eastern trade and communication routes to the middle east where it was found by Europeans and named by them. I am sure the people of the medievil middle east and India had their own name for it but it has been remembered down through the ages as Damascus. By 1099, it was I believe being made in Syria too.
 
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