With that said, the knife suffered from some issues, the most important being this is not a full tang knife. This knife was the top seller back in 2011 in regards to the BG series. The back of the sheath features a diamond hone for sharpening your blade, and of course the ubiquitous Bear Grylls survival guide. The handle comes with a wrist strap that includes an emergency whistle. The knife comes with a nice sheath that includes a built in fire steel. This was Gerber's top of the line knife for a few years in the BG series. I try not to abuse my collection items overall.īy the way, the top knife is the real deal.Įpisode 51 - Gerber Bear Grylls Ultimate Knife. Quality will be compromised between the two.albeit to what extent I do not know. I bet plenty of folks have a BG product and do not even know they got duped into buying a cheap fake instead of a real Gerber. They are hard to tell apart other then some subtle font changes, marking locations, and slightly different colours in the handles. I bought all of my fakes purposely to compare. So my word to the wise if you see a BG product being sold off of eBay for a very nice price, and you notice the seller hails from Asia, especially Hong Kong.you will usually get a fake. The fakes tend to come in a poorly printed cardboard box, whereas the real Gerbers tend to come in sealed clear plastic packaging. From the photos, they are very hard to tell apart other than the packaging. One is a fake and the other is a real Gerber product. I have two copies in the above photograph. That includes the standard mixed rubber/plastic handles in neon orange and gray. The bigger brother to the Compact Folding Scout Knife, the Folding Scout Knife offers much of the same but more of it. Episode 50 - Gerber Bear Grylls Folding Scout Knife.
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