Gerry McGinnis is a student in business
at North Carolina State University, who, at
age 20, is the youngest knife designer to
appear in this catalog. He started making
knives when he was 15, learning mostly
from Internet forums, and built up his
equipment from hand tools to power tools.
He met Alan Folts, who he says "was
very generous and helped advance my
knifemaking skills, particularly with folders."
Gerry transitioned from mostly fixed
blades to folders in about a year, and got
interested in folder designs with flippers. He
has concentrated on mostly flipper designs
and perfecting the mechanism because of
their ambidextrous one-handed opening
characteristics and ease of use. Gerry
placed 2nd in the 2008 Custom Knives
and Guns Knifemaker Buildoff in the folder
category and has been mentioned several
times in Blade Magazine as a new maker
to watch. Gerry is the designer of the new
CRKT Tuition and Summa lines, which to
the casual observer seem to be the work of
a designer with decades of experience.
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