Sal Glesser
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- Dec 27, 1998
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Hi Truth_Seeker. Welcome to the Blade forums. I read your post with interest and curiosity. I thought to help you in your quest.
Mike, you can shut this down if you want to ... after the "Seeker" and the Forumites hear the truth.
I cannot speak for CRKT as all I know of the current situation is what I've learned on the forums.
I cannot speak for Les & Kershaw, but I will say that Benchmade and Kershaw have a good relationship and have had for years which does make your information suspect.
I can speak for Sal. I can tell you that Sal has never called Customs or any one else on Pacific Cutlery or anyone else. I was a dealer for Pacific Cutlery. This story is a fabrication.
When Les showed me the prototype AFCK. He asked to license our hole opener. He said that he needed a "hot" item to help launch the newly formed Benchmade. He said an association with Spyderco would go in his favor.
We agreed on Royalty terms and would continue same until either party chose to terminate.
I made suggestions to the design, which were incorporated into the final production, making it highly unlikely that they were already built. Another fabrication?
AKTI is run by a group of Regents, Not Les & Sal. And actually I am no longer on the AKTI Board, although I still support it.
I can say that AKTI does not, at this time, have the resources to try to fight the "Federal Switchblade law".
I would have to charge that "those who are well known in the knife making world" are having a memory problem, or perhaps an integrity problem? And if you are comfortable in repeating them, I feel sorry for you.
You now have your truth, Seeker.
sal
Mike, you can shut this down if you want to ... after the "Seeker" and the Forumites hear the truth.
I cannot speak for CRKT as all I know of the current situation is what I've learned on the forums.
I cannot speak for Les & Kershaw, but I will say that Benchmade and Kershaw have a good relationship and have had for years which does make your information suspect.
I can speak for Sal. I can tell you that Sal has never called Customs or any one else on Pacific Cutlery or anyone else. I was a dealer for Pacific Cutlery. This story is a fabrication.
When Les showed me the prototype AFCK. He asked to license our hole opener. He said that he needed a "hot" item to help launch the newly formed Benchmade. He said an association with Spyderco would go in his favor.
We agreed on Royalty terms and would continue same until either party chose to terminate.
I made suggestions to the design, which were incorporated into the final production, making it highly unlikely that they were already built. Another fabrication?
AKTI is run by a group of Regents, Not Les & Sal. And actually I am no longer on the AKTI Board, although I still support it.
I can say that AKTI does not, at this time, have the resources to try to fight the "Federal Switchblade law".
I would have to charge that "those who are well known in the knife making world" are having a memory problem, or perhaps an integrity problem? And if you are comfortable in repeating them, I feel sorry for you.
You now have your truth, Seeker.
sal
