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Pros & Cons
Pros
The clip keeps it low and nicely secured without tearing up my pocket. Think it's a great edc knife.
Cons
Good try for gerber entering this higher end folder market, but lacks the finesse of a spyderco or benchmade. The flipper mechanism is uncomfortable, sticks 8/10 times opening and is very slow. To me this knife is expensive and there is just no excuse... Read More
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Quality
I like this knife a lot it is the first high end knife i owned my cheap knives were from an auto parts store and they are not e... Read More
Overall im pretty pleased with the fastball
Meaning that the quality control of gerber on this particular product may not be quite there
I initially dinged this knife for its somewhat obvious quality control flaws which a number of other reviewers have pointed out
Competitiveness
Some would say its unfair to compare a spyderco to a gerber but in this case i feel it is entirely justified
I swore off gerber products years ago but this gave me hope for their future offerings
Carried it for about a month before switching to a benchmade
Well because i dont want a multitool
Overview
- How are reviewers describing this item?
great, little, quality, sharp and open. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
- Our engine has detected that Amazon has altered, modified or removed reviews from this listing. We approximate total reviews altered up to 107.
- Our engine has discovered that over 90% high quality reviews are present.
- This product had a total of 189 reviews as of our last analysis date on Dec 16 2022.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
This new gerber is far better in my opinion is much easier to operate and is already my new every day carry
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
It is on the higher end for a gerber folder but it is on the much lower end for an s30v folder
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The media could not be loaded
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Carried it for about a month before switching to a benchmade
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Knife opens super fast the biggest problem was the close
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I’m sure it’s something that could be fixed with a little tweaking but when you spend this amount of money on a knife you’d really hope the first thing you have to do isn’t take it apart
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Pocket clip is solid but i just end up throwing it in my backpack
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Right off the bat gerber needs their qc guy fired if they want to breach into the enthusiast market
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