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Axis Lock and its Use
- Thread starter Petunia D. Feeble
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I was under the impression that Benchmade did all they could to keep Ganzo knives from from being sold and imported anywhere they could. However some people did their best to do an end run around those restrictions to get them anyway. The fact that Ganzo resellers have at various times used misleading marketing (oh but certainly not Ganzo) just makes it muddier, and harder for me to give any credit to the Ganzo crowd.
As to the 'out the back door' clones, I suspect that any factory that was found doing that would have its contracts pulled quite quickly. Off the books sales have lead to a lot of conflict even between US companies.
There is a lot of guessing, supposition, and otherwise unfounded claims going on in this thread, and a lot of drift towards the spydie-hole somehow playing a part in it. If those two companies agree about it (by whatever means they agree/compromise) then that should be good enough. Its all a matter of perspective, and related to a lot of stuff we don't know. We don't have the whole story, because we don't need to. I trust that Sal knows whats worth bothering about. What we do know is that copies of knives and poorly done implementations of features hurt the industry. How many people here have a hate on for liner locks because they used a bad one, or back locks, or a steel because it was done poorly. Even people who know better fall victim to the mental short-hand that x was bad, so since y uses x, y is also bad.
Will Benchmade trademark the name axis-lock, and therefore everyone else will have to come up with a generic name, or pay a royalty to the original designer? Dunno, but that might be one way of doing things.
As to the 'out the back door' clones, I suspect that any factory that was found doing that would have its contracts pulled quite quickly. Off the books sales have lead to a lot of conflict even between US companies.
There is a lot of guessing, supposition, and otherwise unfounded claims going on in this thread, and a lot of drift towards the spydie-hole somehow playing a part in it. If those two companies agree about it (by whatever means they agree/compromise) then that should be good enough. Its all a matter of perspective, and related to a lot of stuff we don't know. We don't have the whole story, because we don't need to. I trust that Sal knows whats worth bothering about. What we do know is that copies of knives and poorly done implementations of features hurt the industry. How many people here have a hate on for liner locks because they used a bad one, or back locks, or a steel because it was done poorly. Even people who know better fall victim to the mental short-hand that x was bad, so since y uses x, y is also bad.
Will Benchmade trademark the name axis-lock, and therefore everyone else will have to come up with a generic name, or pay a royalty to the original designer? Dunno, but that might be one way of doing things.