For that price, I would buy it providing it is a real Gerber. From my eBay buys, most of the Gerbers that I bought from Hong Kong ended up being fakes.
Thank you for your thoughts i haven't handled the tool, so it's nice to get some insights Just an aside, good steel and bad steel pretty much weigh the same, so if it feels too light there's probably just less steel than you expected
Aren't mid-handle protrusions annoying?
Quote from: firiki on December 16, 2016, 10:13:56 AMAren't mid-handle protrusions annoying? You mean the protrude thing on the blade? Yes. It is, especially when you are using it for food like slicing an apple.
I think he means the bump in the middle of the handle.Thanks for the insight on this tool. It is usually the kind of thing I overlook, thinking that Victorinox has been much more successful at making Swiss Army type knives for years, why would I consider a Swiss Army type knife from someone else? Still, you have me curious enough that I may have to try one of these some time.BTW, Gerber lists the steel as 5Cr15MoV. It has been a while since I was a steel snob enough to comment on how effective that is, but at least it's a knife steel and not something they found in a pit at the local scrapyard, which is where I'm sure some companies get their steel from! Def