What blade for this scenario?

[sideways]

If you were stuck on a tropical island next to the ocean and you could only pick one blade and no other equipment what so ever what would it be-Gerber lmf 2, Kabar bk2, Gerber prodigy or anything becker. I personally would pick the LMF 2 for the intergrated sharpener and the rust resistance next to salt water. What would you pick?

 

[bdmicarta]

stranded ona deserted island? remember the movie "Cast Away" with Tom Hanks? That movie came out after the period of time where I was buying a some custom fixed blades. In the movie there were various FedEx boxes washing ashore with various things in them such as ice skates and soccer balls. I was receiving some of my knife purchases in those FedEx boxes and I was thinking how fortunate he would have been to have found a box with one my my knives in it.

 

[Quiet]

I'm just trying to find at least one good thing someone has to say about gerber on this forum. I will never stop til I do...I'm never gonna stop then am I?

Instead of wasting time in such a fashion, why not do some reading and start learning about all of the other fantastic knives out there which are flatly better than Gerber's products?

 

[Franciscomv]

Sure, I'll take one of the Gerbers. The tacticoolest one of the bunch, would that be the LMF? Being stuck on an island with that thing would probably be incentive enough to build frigate out of palm trees and sail it to the nearest place were proper cutlery is available.

 

[GronK]

Gerber knives can be relied upon to never, ever explode. That's a good thing. Now move on to another subject.:thumbup:

Just as I read this (what a coincidence, eh?) I heard a sound in my knife drawer. It was an old Gerber Gator exploding. Just the luck.

 

[Funzy12]

+1 for the lmf 2 its my camp knife and i like it

 

[Canadian Knife Lover]

I m Just gonna pray that no one would never ever get
marooned on an island with nothing more than a gerber
But, if it happens to fall on me, I might choose to
Accidentally loose the gerber and live of rain water and raw fish.

LMFAO Have you seen the new show "The Island with Bear Grylls" it's like the same scenario and 13 men all have 3 gerber knives and 2-3 gerber machetes! Hahahahaha

And yeah I'd go Becker Bk7 or Bk9

 

[Amos Iron Wolf]

For what it is my Gerber Profile in 440A (older one from Wally World for $17) is a decent knife for casual work. Love the feel, shape, and balance. I'd like to have a custom made of better steel to those same design specs. For the cost of the knife for casual use it's okay. Not great, not heavy duty, just a usable cheap knife. Gerbers today and for the last many years are not the Gerber of old.

However, it ain't my first or even 10th choice for an only knife in the outback sort of blade. I could make it work as long as I could makeshift some sharpening material or have a little diamond paddle on me. But I'd take many other knives first.

Of the three mentioned anything Becker and nothing Gerber. Especially anything marketed for the hard use/military/survival market and especially if it's the Bear Grylls line.I've found in things like knives and hunting level break action pellet rifles, if it has some celebrity name on it, they cheaped it out somewhere. Get the better version without the name for the same price or less.

The LMF is probably one of the more capable of the modern Gerber line, but for the money there is just much better available. That and I have come to really dislike the partial serrations on a knife. If I want serrations I'll carry a fully serrated knife like I did a small SOG lockback in a horizontal pouch alongside my SAK Champ when I was in the Army. The SOG was specifically for cutting rope.

Don't forget a lot of those Marines packing 1095 carbon steel Ka-Bars in the Pacific Theater on those islands. They seemed to manage around salt water just fine.

 

[22-rimfire]

In my tropical island scenario, I'd be on an island with women surrounded by a fresh water lake. Hence, the BK-7 would do just fine. I would be mostly thinking how I was going to get to the shore and head to Walmart so I could buy me a Gerber knife and some groceries and stay in good graces with the women.

 

[TheDandyLion]

Tropical island? I'd take a good machete. I really like the machete I recently made, a ~14" Parang with a fairly thick (4-5mm tapering to 3mm) and a narrower blade than most parangs. It can chop, split, slash, cut, and some carving. Feels nimble in the hand but heavy enough to get a lot of force behind the chop. In a place where I will be needing to cut through brush, open/harvest coconuts and possible cut bamboo a parang will do more good than a junk stainless gerber with a 5" blade. Just my $.02

 

[bdmicarta]

I'm just trying to find at least one good thing someone has to say about gerber on this forum. I will never stop til I do...I'm never gonna stop then am I?

I have an old LST that I like. It is a good knife for a non-knife person.

I have an old LMF that I think is a good knife, but the rubber grip is kind of an odd shape.

I have a couple of old Gerber hunting knives both with finger grooves, one folding and one fixed blade. I have heard from outfitters that both were good hunting knives. I don't know if they make any comparable knives these days.

OK, that's all that I'm going to say that is sort of good about Gerber knives.