Would need some opinions about the Gerber Evo jr.

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coldlocus

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What opinions do you have about the Gerber Evo jr? A part from the fact that it's a copy. I just wondered if this is a good knife for it's price?
 
coldlocus said:
What opinions do you have about the Gerber Evo jr? A part from the fact that it's a copy. I just wondered if this is a good knife for it's price?
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I don't know. I have never used one. All I would say is; I would rather have a good Sodbuster, or a Mora style blade (if your interested in a fixed blade) for the $15.00 (that was the lowest I found one for). But it's your money, for that price, try one and if you hate it, try something else.

By the way, welcome to BF. You are in the right place for KNIFE questions!!!!!
 
Thanks Tarmix!
I was just going to buy a small cheap folder knife, and then I stumbled on to this forum. Man, wasn't aware of that there are so many shiny fine knives that I wanted!
But for now I think I'll settle with the Gerber Evo, I like the look and price. Just wondered how the overall quality was and if it's easy to open one-handed. I'm considering Benchmades Mini-Pika also, but heard it's hard to open one-handed.

Allready got my share of Moraknivar, practically grew up on the things. I'm a swede. :)
 
coldlocus said:
Thanks Tarmix!
I was just going to buy a small cheap folder knife, and then I stumbled on to this forum. Man, wasn't aware of that there are so many shiny fine knives that I wanted!
But for now I think I'll settle with the Gerber Evo, I like the look and price. Just wondered how the overall quality was and if it's easy to open one-handed. I'm considering Benchmades Mini-Pika also, but heard it's hard to open one-handed.

Allready got my share of Moraknivar, practically grew up on the things. I'm a swede. :)
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I do love my Moras.



Many here will tell you that the quality of Gerber knives has gone down hill over the last several years, and they would be right. For the $$$ that you're spending, you won't have any problems with the knife IMHO. As I mentioned, buy it, try it, and if you don't like it, give it away and try something else. Gives you an excuse to buy another knife;)
 
I would recomend not buying that particular or any gerber knife. That is bad ripoff of a decent knife the CRKT M-16. I would recomend any of the Byrd line by Spyderco or any of the Ka-Bar Dozier series. Please post in the correct forum next time and highly recomend useing the seach function here is how to get the best use of it.
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=367558

Here is one thread on the gerber evo ripoff topic
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=347507
 
Careful there Tarmix. That first pic showed all a guy really needs in cutlery and we have to be careful. Should word get around spouses and others would bring up that old, "What do you need with all these knives." thing again. And they would have a point. ;)

Yep, Moras have got to be one of the best values going in pure cutting effectivness. I have three (my wife would remind me that I have two, she has one) of the plastic handled stainless models and two carbon steel Clippers. I've gotten great deals on them all. I keep a Clipper by the bed, and one by the computer so that when the dog wants to go out I can clip one to the belt easily. Lotsa Mora Love in this folder.

There is one Gerber that seems to provide a pretty good value for the dollar. That is the Profile fixed blade they sell at WallyWorld for $19.95. It's 440A with a nitride finish and synthetic grips. It actually sharpens up shaving sharp with little trouble, cuts well, and balances/handles nicely. While I haven't done any heavy, hard use testing, it seems to be doing a good job of holding an edge. One of these days I intend to get one just to put through a hard test just out of curiousity. Beyond that though, I'm not a Gerber fan these days either.
 
coldlocus said:
What opinions do you have about the Gerber Evo jr? A part from the fact that it's a copy. I just wondered if this is a good knife for it's price?
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hello,

I have discoverd this knife last year in august when on hollidays. I had an appointment with a GERBER's representative. We had to set several article I could write. I was give a couple of samples among them the EVO jr.

My reactions were sorta mix of ideas.

1- It's clearly a copy of CRKT M16.
The reason I was given is : It was proposed to GERBER by a Chinese factory the company worked with. The price was interesting and the product too. It coresponded to the request of the market.
I think that this factory previously worked with CRKT. And they kept the designs and forms to make their own version that could be proposed to several US and Foreign companies.
2- It's not a real GERBER design.
So it seems that GERBER is capable of the good (Rick HINDERER Rescue), but also the worst (EVO series)
3- The price is very low. The EVO jr is very affordable. So it's the sort of knife that can be carried and even lost or seased by Police (for countries were knives are not welcomed) without needing to go to bankruptcy if you buy one.
4- The quality on making and assembly of the EVO Jr is at a taiwanese / chinese standard level. It cuts, it folds and locks. Do we need more?

take care, B
 
Karl5 said:
For sure not!
You're missing the ubiquitous Opinel for that... :D

/ Karl
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I thought of that, but in the sense of minimalizing to the point of one fixed blade and one folder, I decided to leave the Opi out. However, we could include as a lightweight, semi-luxury item such knives as the Opinel, Douk-Douk, and related types, pehaps even the wood handled Sodbusters such as the Brown Mules by Kissing Crane as the Mules are light, solid, utilitarian, and inexpensive in the extreme. Unless you do like some folks on ebay and pay $18 or more for a knife you can get from SMKW for just under $10.

I've often said on here a guy could do well in the woods with a break-action, single-shot shotgun, a Mora, and a SAK (especially with the saw). Toss in good tomahawk or light axe and you're really set.
 
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