SOG Specialty Knives & Tools spokesperson R Lee Ermey aka “The Gunny” will be at the Greenwood, SC WalMart from 10 am to 4pm signing autographs and taking pictures with fans. Come out early and don’t miss your change to meet a legend more information below.
Where
Walmart – Greenwood, SC
508 NW Bypass 72
Greenwood, SC 29649
When
October 8, 2011
10:00 am to 4:00pm
Lynwood, WA, May 16 — SOG Specialty Knives and Tools has teamed with R. Lee Ermey, “The Gunny,” to launch a limited edition fixed blade and folding knife collection, “The Gunny Series.”
The two knives, which will be limited a maximum of 1000 serialized pieces each, are the first to be co-designed by Ermey and SOG Founder and Chief Designer, Spencer Frazer.
The “Gunny Series” features super strong and durable high-end VG-10 stainless steel blades with stainless steel bolsters and liners in a Cocobolo hardwood handle. The handles are inlaid with Stingray hide and a nickel-plated miniature Gunny commemorative coin. The fixed blade is 12.2” in length and the folder, 9.1 in length.
Both knives include a hand crafted leather sheath and a full-size Gunny commemorative coin and come in a walnut display box with a Certificate of Authenticity signed by both Ermey and Frazer.
The knives can be collected separately or together and will be available exclusively at www.sogknives.com beginning June 1 at a price of $750.00 for the fixed blade and $500.00 for the folder.
“It has long been a dream of mine to design my own knife,” says Ermey, who serves as national spokesperson for SOG Specialty Knives and Tools. “My association with SOG has made that a reality, even more so because of the opportunity to work side by side with a master designer such as Spencer. Our desire was to pay homage to traditional knife designs and shapes, but with a unique interpretation. All the while, we wanted to produce the finest knife imaginable, something of heirloom quality, as beautiful as it is durable and strong.”
An advocate on behalf of the Marines and avid supporter of a number of military and law enforcement charitable activities, including National Spokesperson for the Young Marines, Ermey has starred in numerous feature films, most notably receiving a Golden Globe nomination and Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor in Stanley Kubrick’s “Full Metal Jacket.” He is also the star of History Channel’s “Lock N’ Load With R. Lee Ermey” as well as television commercials, such as recently see in a famous spot for Geico.
Ermey served 11 years active duty with the U.S. Marine Corps, rising to the rank of staff NCO. He also served two years as a drill instructor and had a tour and a half of duty in Vietnam. Medically retired in 1971, Ermey enrolled at the University of Manila in the Philippines to study drama. There, Francis Ford Coppola, who was filming “Apocalypse Now” in the area, hired Ermey as a Technical Advisor, eventually casting him in a featured role. He has gone on to star or appear in approximately sixty theatrical films and numerous television programs and films. Because of his numerous contributions on behalf of the Marines, he received an honorary promotion to Gunnery Sergeant (E-7) in 2002.
“SOG chose Gunny to serve as our spokesperson because in so many ways he is the embodiment of our brand and what we want to represent,” says Frazer. “In many ways, the Gunny Series is the culmination of that relationship – a physical example of the synergy that exists between Gunny as a person and SOG as a brand. In working with Gunny, it’s clear that he is an individual with vision and a passion for knives – not just as beautiful, highly-engineered objects, but as essential tools for modern living. I believe we have created unique knives that will be talked about and sought after for years to come.”
SOG was founded in 1986 by Frazer, a former R&D tool and die maker for the Top Secret Black Projects Division of the aerospace defense industry.
SOG’s name was inspired by an elite joint services military unit – the Studies and Observation Group – formed in advance of the Vietnam War to conduct covert operations and sanctioned to develop and purchase their own weapons.
Since the introduction of its first products: a fixed blade knife based on the original design of the MACV SOG Fighter; the Tomcat, a folding knife; and the Toolclip, its first multi-tool; SOG has become the favored brand for specialty knives and tools by the military, law enforcement personnel, industrial tradesmen and outdoorsmen worldwide.
SOG Specialty Knives and Tools are sold nationwide. To find a dealer in your area or to learn more about SOG or The Gunny, visit www.sogknives.com.
Just wanted to announce that we are going to have R Lee Ermey aka “The Gunny” in the SOG booth at the Blade show on June 11th, 2011 from 10am to 5PM signing autographs and taking pictures. Come by and say hi!
We’ve uploaded the new Gunny commercial to the website! You can find it here, as well as added to the Gunny Approved page- and of course, you can always find all our videos on our Youtube channel
R Lee Ermey aka The Gunny will be on an upcoming episode of Hunting with the Judge. We just got back from spending a week with them in NZ. Check out the picts below.
Gunny is everywhere lately. We just received our copies of the April 2010 issue of Blade Magazine. We were quite please to see that the Creed was featured on the cover and there is an interview with the Gunny. If you want to read the article I suggest you go out and buy a copy of the magazine. If you don’t want to do that we were fortunate enough to get a copy of the article from Blade that we can post on here. Read the Blade Magazine interview with R. Lee Ermey aka The Gunny.
In case you have not heard SOG has partnered with R. Lee Ermey aka The Gunny as our national spokesperson. Check out the Gunny page on the SOG website for more information.
He has also started writing a column for Tactical Knives in each issue. The first of his columns has been posted on the tactical-life.com website. If you want to read what Gunny has to say about knives it is a good read, check it out at http://www.tactical-life.com/online/tactical-knives/gunny-on-the-edge/
