Cloning a Thief (?)

Is it wrong to purchase a Microtech Clone?

  • Yes

    Votes: 44 73.3%

  • No

    Votes: 16 26.7%
  • Total voters
    60
K.O.D. said:
I won't buy clones of anything (except maybe sheep, to send to forum buddies in NZ). I will not buy a microtech either.

Too many legit choices out there. Plus, I do have some modicum of integrity.

A clone of a clone is still a stolen idea. Its just been stolen twice. Two wrongs don't make a right.
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Thanks for the thought mate but we're flush with sheep down here :thumbsup:

I'm goin' with no to clones, or cloners clones, or clones of cloners original designs.
This whole endlessly rehashed clone subject here on BF has been interesting reading at times with interesting perspectives put forward.
But I keep it simple - I get a real one or I don't get one. Feels right to me.

I have a Slysz Bowie. Very expensive to us down here. I see the Slysz clones online at a fraction of the price and I understand they can be pretty well made too. But I waited 'til I could afford a real one, and I got exactly what I wanted, assured quality from a well respected maker.

Sorry to go OT from Microtech. The name means OTF to me and that's not legal here. Dunno why, maybe they scare the sheep or something.
 
I would. Probably, Hope you don't judge me to hard. That guy sounds fake to me like his some of his designs. If it was a nice counterfeit. I probably would but I would never pass it off as real. The only thing is I might like it too much and want a real one, then I'd rather buy the infidel and would not buy that as a counterfeit. Mr snake in grass is an exception. I have always had a street justice kind of thing when attitude, laws, and integrity are bent. It's not right but it'd serve em right.
 
I'm also the guy who smiles inside when I hear of dad's beating their daughters boyfriends for roughing up 'daddy's little girl'.
 
FortyTwoBlades said:
Clones or counterfeits, no way. Pieces clearly heavily borrowing from an existing piece? A bit more of a grey area. The others are pretty clear-cut, though.
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Agreed.

MT has shown themselves to be a crap company. Cloners are a crap thing. Why buy crappy crap?
 
I'll not condemn nor defend here.
There's always more to things than what most folks think they know.

This pic is of a 2011 "PrePrototype", taken at the 2011 Blade Show. It never made it to Production but was instrumental in fanning some behind the scenes flames:

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Hopefully zt will reignite their otf program. They could easily crush mt if they so choose.
 
T.L.E. Sharp said:
Most of us agree that buying clones is bad for the community. Taking someone's hard work and design then making a cheap knock off for your own profit is clearly wrong.

I'm curious though as to how everyone feels about clones of knives from a company who has done the same thing themselves. Companies who clearly don't care about their customer or the IP of others.

So, how do you feel about Microtech clones?
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what I don't get is how microtech preach USA and America yet they copy other peoples work... how is that American?

I just wouldn't go out of my way to buy such a product from these folks. I don't support clones either way. stop making them and stop asking China to make the model you want. its wrong.

the only thing microtech can do is discontinue the copied models they still offer and make there own models instead to replace those.
 
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Making a "clone" or knife that is the same as a competitor, but with a different mark is a long standing practice, even a tradition, in the cutlery industry for over 200 years. Think of all the identical slipjoints, bowies, leather stacked handles, Marbles Ideal pattern, and the Buck 110 copies made by Boker, Schrade, Puma, Case, etc. Even today GEC follows up on Case Bose success stories with their "version" that fly off the shelves at premium prices for cheap 1095 steel.

Although the poll is running against the practice, the cutlery industry would not be as vibrant as it is today w/o copies and intellectual property "recycling". Think Liner lock.

If it's OK for Western companies to do it, could it be a prejudice against the Far East is the true motivator for the poll results?
 
The survey answers you are getting could easily change if the the question was phrased differently.
Personally, I am normally against counterfeit products but clones are a grey area. Some are OK and some are not. It just depends.

As for other people making a purchase, I could care less what they do. Of course I would like them to get the real thing if possible, however, beyond that it is up to them. Like you and I really have any control over what other forum members purchase. What a joke.
 
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