Friday, July 22, 2011

Blackie Collins Has Died

Knife designer Blackie Collins has been killed in a motorcycle accident.

He was around for a long time, I've been buying knives designed by him all the way back to the early 1980's, when he worked for Gerber Legendary Knives. My first Blackie Collins-designed knife was the first edition of the Gerber Bolt-Action Folder:



(that's the rare one in ivory-colored Zytel nylon. I had the more common black one).

He'll be missed.

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