Gerber Vulcan
Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2016 6:48 pm
I recently found a Gerber that I have not seen before, it is called the “Vulcan.”
According to Phil Rodenberg’s book “A Chronicle of Gerber Legendary Blades,” the Vulcan series was made in Japan in 1986 and 1987. There were three sizes of the Vulcan however; he does not list the sizes in his book, nor does he have pictures of the three sizes.
I am surprised that I have not encountered any knives from the Vulcan series before. I have been around Gerber a lot, I have lived within 50 to 60 miles of their factory for the last 40 years. I worked literally half a mile south of the Gerber factory in the late 1970s. Gerber was one of the main lines of cutlery we sold in the cutlery store I managed in the 1980s and early 1990s, yet I have not encountered this pattern before.
It’s a very nice knife with a good grippy handle. It is 3-5/8” in length closed.
I can only assume the reason I have not encountered this pattern before is that they were either not very popular or there were not many of them imported. It’s too bad because this is a nice pattern with a good grip and a nice hollow ground blade.
According to Phil Rodenberg’s book “A Chronicle of Gerber Legendary Blades,” the Vulcan series was made in Japan in 1986 and 1987. There were three sizes of the Vulcan however; he does not list the sizes in his book, nor does he have pictures of the three sizes.
I am surprised that I have not encountered any knives from the Vulcan series before. I have been around Gerber a lot, I have lived within 50 to 60 miles of their factory for the last 40 years. I worked literally half a mile south of the Gerber factory in the late 1970s. Gerber was one of the main lines of cutlery we sold in the cutlery store I managed in the 1980s and early 1990s, yet I have not encountered this pattern before.
It’s a very nice knife with a good grippy handle. It is 3-5/8” in length closed.
I can only assume the reason I have not encountered this pattern before is that they were either not very popular or there were not many of them imported. It’s too bad because this is a nice pattern with a good grip and a nice hollow ground blade.