Most of us know the story of Gerber Legendary Blades. Let me add to what I wrote at https://knifesearch.blogspot.com/2021/09/gerber-parabellum.html.
Gerber Legendary Blades is an American maker of knives, multi-tools, and other outdoor and military tools headquartered in Portland, Oregon. Gerber was established in 1939 by Pete Gerber and is owned by the Finnish outdoors products company, Fiskars.
Gerber is claimed to be the largest maker of knives and multi-tools for the United States armed forces. Backing up that claim is a wide variety of combat-style knives, Many of which are highly collectable. Susan J Dorey states in her publication (1) that Gerber switched on December 8, 1941, from making kitchen knives to military knives. That was the day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Slightly off topic, but I found it interesting that Gerber and Emerson Knife formed an alliance to produce an automatic knife, AKA switchblade. Interestingly, it was the first automatic knife made by either company. The knife was based on Emerson Knives’ Raven knife design. The auto was an issued item to specific military units. You can look it up if you want to go down that rabbit hole!
I enjoy Frank’s writing. He has a very eclectic taste in blades.
Read the whole thing at The Knife Edge blog.
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