Thomas, how did they con me? I knew what it was, as stated above. And the simple fact is that I DON'T CARE who made it. I have strange tastes and I think the knife is very cool. That's all. Some of you seem to think that "Bob Wilbert" is ruining the knife collection hobby. Allow me to make a couple of points. 1) The people who buy knives like this (myself included) like them and we would probably never be buying collector grade knives that cost from several hundred to several thousand dollars. Now, I am a musician. I have around $20,000 in high end gear. I paid $3,000 each for two synthesizers, so that is $6,000. Would you spend $6,000 on two synthesizers? Of course not. You do not need them (unless by chance you are a musician who plays synthesizers.) You will never be in the high end synthesizer market. But one day you might feel that playing a keyboard would be fun, so you go out and buy one for $300. Would I give you a hard time about it? No. I would congratulate you and wish you the best of luck with it and answer any questions you may have about how to use it. Because there are decent synthesizers that you can buy for $300. Just as there are decent knives that you can buy for $51. Neither the $300 synthesizer nor the $51 Pakistan knife would be anything special, but we would not expect them to be. However our purchases would make us happy. What is so bad about being happy? You have no need to fear that your hobby will be "ruined" by knives like the Bob Wilbert tomfoolery. We purchasers of them are not serious collectors. So, as I said earlier, we will probably never be in the zone of your particular hobby, ie. very expensive knives. 2) Do you really think that there are people out there running around with a Pakistan knife and saying "look, I got a Bob Wilbert!" Give people some credit for intelligence. It is plain to see that a $51 knife is nothing special. And even if there are a few people who are fooled - so what? They are happy! They did not spend a lot of money and they got something that they enjoy. I have other Pakistan knives and they are plenty decent enough for anything that I want to do. Just like a $300 synthesizer would be plenty decent enough for anything that you would want to do. They feel good in my hand, open and close smoothly (the folders anyway) and they seem to be sharp (I cut my finger haha!) And you never know - far from discouraging us, these knives could make some people want to get better and better knives as they can afford them. I am in that category myself. So far from discouraging people, these knives can only make them want to buy better and better ones. I see no threat to your hobby here. I respectfully ask that you lighten up and re-think the whole thing and ask yourself why somebody else's happiness makes you upset.
