hey guys my name is Karrson Koivisto I'm a product manager at Gerber gear and I'm
here to show you all of our new and highly exciting products for 2019 so
first thing I want to start with is our Fastball this is a US-made
ball bearing finger flip knife it's got S30V steel it's got ball bearings
it's got Type III hard anodized scales three clip locations but the thing that
I'm most excited about with this product is the amount of time we spent
perfecting the ball detent height which it allows you to get the perfect amount
of preload on the flipper tang which gives you this perfect every time all
the way through actuated deployment so we're really excited about this knife
we're able to bring it to a really accessible retail right around $100
and s30v with aluminum scales and ball bearings
and all that at $100 is a really great deal so we're feeling good about
that we've got to hear it in our stone wash with flat sage green we've got it
in our natural, this is actually a clear anodized that comes through gray, and
it's done washed blade again on that and last we have our black with black wash
so that's the Fastball, shipping really soon here about February 1, a very
exciting product for us made in Portland Oregon next let's just hit the
American-made items first and we'll start here or we'll move here next is
the empower with our Type III hard anodized process is called Permadizing
and you actually get the toughness and rigidity of a Type III hard anodized but
you're able to get this high resolution branded multi cam on there so this is
just as tough as a hard anodized milspec black anodized but it's actually a high
resolution multi cam arid so last year we did the 06 Auto on the Covert Auto and
the traditional multi cam colorway and this year we're doing the Empower and
the Mini Covert Auto in arid so these are really exciting they're coming out
2/1 and 4/1, so they're available real soon so the next item I want to
show you guys is a follow up to the item we did last year that is called the
Flatiron, this is one of our most successful items
that we released and we released it on 6/1 and within the year I think we sold
more units of this than any other item with a few exceptions in our whole
product line so really exciting the you know the consumers that care about
everyday carry knives and really care about the products that they carry on
their person really reacted well to this so we figured what's the next logical
progression to a folding cleaver and we went with a folding and not folding
cleaver a palm-sized cleaver here really thick quarter-inch thick steel we have
machined hard anodized aluminum scales with paracord pass-through and one of
the coolest features of this product is actually a sheath so it's injection mold
with a really positive lock in and you have a paddle release you just gently
push here pull it out and you're in business so this comes with our deep
green and black oxide and we also have it in a black with Stone wash blade so
really exciting there retails in the $35 to $40 range and
really exciting product the sheath actually has another feature this
belt portion here is actually modular these posts here are basically spaced
exactly the same so you can take this portion and switch it so you can Scout
carry on the back of your belt or you can actually invert this so the so the
knife sits higher on your belt or lower on your belt like this a lot of options
with the sheath it's made to be really modular but again this is the tri-tip
and it's in the mid $30s and really exciting new item for us shipping about 6/1
another really exciting item is our Compact Highbrow, so the Compact Highbrow
is and assisted open with a pivot lock it's got a spine lock on there for
safety comes within four different colorways and it's left right
ambidextrous but really smooth out operating easy to open opens every time
with a simple push of the flipper and we have it here in our black on black we've
got it in our gray with stonewash we also have a fine edge version on the
gray stone wash we have a flat sage green with a cool orange pop back spacer
but yeah these guys are really great everyday carry knives
this is the small version, the Compact Highbrow, will have the full size
Highbrow releasing a little later in 2019 and yeah really excited about this
new product line really affordable in the mid to high $30s early or low $40s so
compact high brow releasing around 5/1to 6/1 as well; next I'm gonna
get into what I think is most unique looking item of our year this is called
the Jukebox and we called it the Jukebox because it heralds back to kind of the
1950s greaser looking aesthetics that that are always cool and have stayed
cool but we haven't really done much in a modern way with it so what we've done
is taken a friction lock aesthetic where you have this extended
tang here and you can actuate the knife all the way through with that and our
friction folder obviously you're you're locking the knife by holding that tang
but on this we actually added a liner lock for additional safety so it's a
combination of a friction lock and a liner lock we extended that liner lock a
little bit outside the profile of the scale for easy access for easy to
disengagement but yeah this knife really easy to handle it kind of has that
straight razor barbershop feel and look to it this is our tortoiseshell it's
kind of a fiery orange tortoiseshell colorway we also have it in what we call
white marble which is kind of this gray and clear it's almost like pearloid like
a guitar pick material and it comes through really cool every single one of
these is a little different because the material it it comes out different every
time we make it so really cool product here, Jukebox, Low $40 range
next we have the Quadrant so the Quadrant comes in these two
colorways and you can see how distinct they are you know you can dress it
really dress it up with this one and it's kind of this tuxedo looking you
know black-tie affair looking product these are flippers so
they have this really easy to operate flipper we have a frame lock on them but
again we extended that that frame lock access point there so you can easily get
to that and disengage the lock this one with the bamboo it's a real chunk of
bamboo it's just has a totally different
aesthetic than this and we were really surprised by just changing that material
how far you can stretch the product with the tall grind we have on there you
know it gives it a lot of contrast on the blade we think that came through
really cool as well so this is the Quadrant this product runs about
$25 to $30, $32 so really exciting knife: Quadrant next
I'm going to show you our slip joints so our slip joints are going after that
modern take on a traditional product so we have our traditional aspects of it
being a high polished blade high polish bolster high polish backspacer
everything's polish on it you can see how much shine it's got going on and the
the action on it we really obsessed over making it really really smooth so it has
obviously your detent position here but the whole action throughout the the
opening process is just buttery smooth we feel great about how it came out we
have it available in this we call it cyan anodized both colorways have this
cool candy stripe on it which we feel is really cool and kind of gives that
traditional old-school pop to it the slip joint the Straight Lace is also
left-right ambidextrous so tip up in both sides but if you want to switch it
to a left hand carry there's a plate here that you take off the one side and
pop it on the other side so no matter which side you're carrying there's not a
hole on the other side of the scale so like I said this is our flat or this is
our cyan we also have it in flat sage green we have this extended nail nick so
it's easy to really get a little either a little meat of the tip of your finger
or two nails in there so you can really get all the leverage you need on it but
again the knife runs really smooth and I think you'll be really impressed with it
retails on these are about $30 to $35 so a very accessible
price point on a cool slip joint the little brother to the Straight Lace is
called the wing tip so the Wingtip has a lot of those similar traditional
characteristics you know high polish backspace their high polish bolster or
high polish fasteners and high polish blade still slipjoint here still has
the extended nail nick throughout the almost the entire length of the blade
but really exciting product here even a lower retail at $20-25
and we have it in our urban gray and our flat sage green both these
slip joint folders are about 6/1 for
availability date and we're feeling really good about them I think anybody
who appreciates you know a more modern take on a traditional item and likes to
every day carry a slip joint it's gonna be real happy with these next we have a
pretty unique product something you probably don't see a form factor quite
like before so this is called the Keynote, and the Keynote has three carry
options you can obviously you see a split ring here you can carry it on your
keychain and we have the the force to open it high enough that it's really
hard that it's not really hard to open but hard to incidentally open in the
pocket on a keychain ring so we took real careful care to make the right
balance on that but we also wanted you to be able to pocket carry it so we have
a pocket clip here and that pocket clip is very easily removed if you wanted to
slim up as much as possible so you can carry it with the clip in your normal
pocket or you can take that clip off and it gets real slim and you can drop it in
your coin pocket in that little 5th pocket that really gets no use really so what
we have is a this is not a flipper that's supposed to deploy the knife all
the way but it's we called a kickstarter so you just press there and then you
just actuate it the rest of the way with your thumb and you have this really
unique stout stubby blade so it's pretty pretty chunky chunk of steel and we have
this really unique it's not really tanto it's more of a utilitarian blade shape
but I technically I guess it just tanto as well but the idea what it is you can
you really get flat on something and scrape out something or use this lead
edge to open your boxes or anything you do on a daily basis it's pretty rare you
actually use two and a half to four and a half inches of blade this little
one-inch blade does just about everything you need on a daily basis
just done in a different form factor so it's a liner lock actuated we have it
available in this coyote colorway with a flat sage green and it eyes aluminum
back spacer or we have it in our black with a pop orange for the aluminum back
spacer and the and the pivot ring as well it's a really exciting new product
here and I personally just think this would look so cool and pocket dumps
we've seen you know pocket dump is a growing thing people curate you know the
coolest items that that say something a little bit about their personality and
we we think this shows up really cool in a pocket bump and we've done a little
bit explorations on that and it's pretty exciting how it looks
last item I'm going to show you guys today is a little different size so this
is called the Versa Fix Pro we call it a Versa Fix Pro because it's versa for
versatile fixed because it's a fixed blade and the idea of this product is
it's not a machete it's not a fixed blade it's a hybrid product we're trying
to be right in the middle of that because what we find is most often
people don't need all the length of a machete and most often people don't need
or a lot of times people need a little more lengths than a traditional fixed
blade length so yeah that secondary retention strap I just folded behind
here you can use it or not use it what we have is a quick-release paddle here
easy in easy out the idea is on that people when they're actually in the in
the course of using you know machete or a fixed blade setting up a camp or
whatnot they're in and out of the sheath a lot so we wanted that to be really
easy to pop in and then all you do is just find the bottom of that and lock it
down really well done on the sheath we have these multiple lashing points with
through gates so that you don't have to necessarily weave all your straps
through I'll take all that time we have these little broken gates here not
broken but you know what I'm saying that you can pass through your standard
one-inch straps so we have you'll see it's pretty unique blade finish here
this is we call our chisel blade finish it's a really cool look on the pro
version we have this skeletonized section back here which creates more of
a weight forward balance to it the idea on that is when you're using it as a
cutting tool as a chopping tool when an item more weight forward it actually
delivers more impact for the amount of force put behind it so you're getting a
little more effect for your effort so we have this section out here that's
intended for you know machete chopping use and we recurve the blade up here so
that you can get in there and do some real fine knife works and pull cuts to
the chest lever grip and all that kind of stuff and then the last thing is we
we added this jimping on top here out of what we found from taking some bushcraft
courses is do a lot of batoning and it's really easy when you're batoning to
have your your baton your stick slide off the blade and your energy that you
spent you know hitting that basically glances off and so we added this jimping
so that it would grab the stick as you're hitting it and transfer all that
power straight through into what you're batoning so the idea being it's versatile product
Versa Fix, kind of replaces the need for carrying a machete a fixed blade and a
hatchet if you want to if you want to minimize the number of things you're
carrying in your pack yeah you can take the Versa Fix and take those three
things those three functions and put them all into one product so we have it
in this warm red with a bead blast finish on the chisel chisel blade finish
we have this black with a gray overmold on the handle and we also have this
Takedown version that's Versa Fix without the word Pro on the end of it
which you don't get the skeletonizing and you don't get the chisel blade
finish and you don't get the cool quick release sheath you get a more basic slim
fabric sheath this product runs about $30 for the Takedown and only about $40
for the full size so really exciting you're getting a whole lot of product
for a very accessible retail and now we feel great about these items that's
about what I have to show you here for 2019 we think it's a really exciting
year really going after that every day carry consumer who wants their products
to say a little bit about them and we think we've done a great job curating
some unique looks and things that really work as well yeah get yourself a
Fastball he'll be really happy about it really excited about this one
thanks a lot guys stay tuned next year you'll have more exciting stuff from us
and we look forward to getting you something we can carry