Review Bark River/Fallkniven Collaboration Knife

[JPricey82]

Has anyone had the pleasure of owning one of these Bark River/Fallkniven collaborations before? I would recommend the classic H1 if you are looking for a "user", but I couldn't resist this one with desert ironwood handle scales. The thermorun handle would certainly give you a better grip, which is very important on a hunting blade with no finger guard.

 

[marcinek]

Have you used it in the field? Looks pristine to me.

 

[JPricey82]

I have used it once or twice on big game, but I admit she's a bit of a safe queen.

 

[Dangerously]

Are these really collaborations? The ones I’ve seen, for example the F1 sold at KSF, were just off the shelf F1s that had handles ripped off and were rehandled. The two parties never collaborated at all.

 

[Boggs]

You’re correct these are not collaborations.... simply off the shelf and KSF has Bark River rehandle them..

JPricey you have to check on details...

 

[JPricey82]

Okay, but we are arguing semantics here. It's an H1 with Bark River handle scales.

 

[Dangerously]

It’s semantics in the sense that semantics study meaning. And the meaning of “collaboration” is to have collaborated on it. That didn’t happen here. So it’s just wrong.

If I made a scale for a Sebenza and sold it as a Dangerously/Chris Reeve collaboration, when no actual collaboration took place, it’d be a fraud.

 

[JPricey82]

I suppose I should have typed combination as opposed to collaboration. It seems just as fraudulent to take a classic blade like the H1 and put a different handle on it without gettin Fallkniven's approval first. If both companies are profiting from one product offering, then it's very similar to a collaboration.

 

[Dangerously]

It seems just as fraudulent to take a classic blade like the H1 and put a different handle on it without gettin Fallkniven's approval first.

I doubt it’s fraudulent at all, since the product appears properly described on the site. Do you have any law in mind under which it would be fraudulent? If so, every person here who’s ever sold their “pimped” knife is a fraudster too.

If both companies are profiting from one product offering, then it's very similar to a collaboration.

Except that it isn’t. A collaboration is when the parties work together to create the final product. A designer and a manufacturer is the common form in the knife world right now. If Fällkniven was part of the marketing, talking about how great it was to work with bark river to rehandle their knives, then I’d buy it. But with the description on the website, that doesn’t look like it happened at all.

I get it, you don’t like being wrong about something. And you’re here trying to get traffic to your videos, and there are a ton of newbie mistakes in them. I don’t think that a knife hobbyist site is the right audience for your videos, since you seem too new. Maybe try to market them to knife newbies.

 

[Boggs]

Approval has nothing to do with it...it would be no different than purchasing the knife and having someone else do the modification.

And again you’re off track JPricey...there’s no such thing as fraudulent in this case...

You would have been better to except the error and leave it at that....now it’s foolish to continue.