Gerber Legendary Blades
maker of consumer knives, multi tools and other tools headquartered in Tigard, Oregon
Gerber Legendary Blades is an American maker of knives, multitools, and other tools for outdoors and military headquartered in Tigard, Oregon. The brand was established in 1939 by Pete Gerber, and is owned now by the Finnish outdoors products company Fiskars.
Gerber is the "largest maker of knives and multi-tools for the United States armed forces." The LMF II Infantry Knife, features a partial tang blade instead of a full tang blade, ostensibly to avoid electric shocks because the knife was designed to free pilots from downed aircraft.
Gerber was the first knife company to collaborate with a custom knife maker when it collaborated with World War II knife maker David Murphy.
In 2010 Bear Grylls designed a line of Gerber survival knives, including the best selling Ultimate knife. The Bear Grylls range from Gerber progressed to including items such as a water bottle, survival kit and tinder grinder.
History
In 1910, the Gerber family started an advertising firm in Portland, Oregon. While working for the family business, Joseph Gerber mailed twenty-four sets of kitchen knives to clients during the holidays. These handmade knives were very popular, with then catalog retailer Abercrombie & Fitch requesting more of these knives from Gerber to sell in their catalog in 1939. Gerber started Gerber Legendary Blades that same year.
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