'Copycat' knives

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jimh0220

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Ok, I am DONE with the whole 'company a sucks because they copied the design for their knife from company b!'

Isn't EVERY knife a copy of another knife from earlier times. Hello, if it has an edge that cuts, it was fashioned after the original stone edge that the OLD generation used.

Seriously though, two questions:

1. Does it really matter if one company's knife(s) look like anothers? When did it matter more than the performance of the blade?

2. Isn't it a cool thing for companies to emulate another's style. Plus, how many blades are actually designed by custom knife makers for the Manufacturers, thereby making them 'copycats' of the customs knifemakers' own knives?

When did imitation cease to become the sincerest form of flattery?

Just sayin'...
 
jimh0220 said:
Ok, I am DONE with the whole 'company a sucks because they copied the design for their knife from company b!'

Isn't EVERY knife a copy of another knife from earlier times. Hello, if it has an edge that cuts, it was fashioned after the original stone edge that the OLD generation used.

Seriously though, two questions:

1. Does it really matter if one company's knife(s) look like anothers? When did it matter more than the performance of the blade?

2. Isn't it a cool thing for companies to emulate another's style. Plus, how many blades are actually designed by custom knife makers for the Manufacturers, thereby making them 'copycats' of the customs knifemakers' own knives?

When did imitation cease to become the sincerest form of flattery?

Just sayin'...
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1) To some people, like me for instance, it matters, much more than the perceived performance of the copycat blade. My ethics and integrity don't have a price/perfomance limit.

2) It's a great thing when companies emulate another's style, with the permission of the other party of course. Many factories do 'custom collaborations,' which is the honorable way to use a custom maker's design/s........with his or her consent.
 
Phade said:
If your done with it, stop bringing it up.
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Exactly. Repeating this topic only serves to generate arguments and ill-feeling. It can't solve anything because it is a matter of individual opinion. We've already heard all logical permutations of opinion on the subject.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
Exactly. Repeating this topic only serves to generate arguments and ill-feeling. It can't solve anything because it is a matter of individual opinion. We've already heard all logical permutations of opinion on the subject.
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Wasn't aware this was so overdone. Just keep seeing the same complaint in almost every 3 threads, so I thought it was still a discussion topic worth making. Sorry, just my first time bringing it up. Feel free to close this I guess...
 
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Phade said:
If your done with it, stop bringing it up.
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Did you and i discuss this before, or did I miss something. I was just curious about others' opinions. I hadn't realized I commented about it before. Sorry my friend. Didn't know I had offended.
 
jimh0220 said:
I was actually interested in the discussion. I must be the only one. I'll leave the thread's future to the Mods...
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I'm interested as well. I was just informing you that you had the ability to close the thread when you told Esav to feel free to close it.

I don't think Phade's comment was aimed at you personally. I think he was saying that this topic has been argued to death already, and your decision to no longer avoid companies with less than stellar ethics would have been best kept to yourself.
 
Is there an ethics issue or a legal issue if the design is not trademarked or copyrighted? If it's a legal issue, then shame on them, and please let the legal system chew them up and spit them out, by all means.
When it is just similar designs, it would seem as inspiration from another's art.

I think custom knives are things of beauty, and would hate to see a person's work counterfeited, but to think that my work inspired another design, then that it cool (yes, I do speak from experience as an artist, fyi).

I have seen many supposedly copied designs that seem to be better than that which they are accused of copying. I would consider that an improved design.
 
3Guardsmen said:
I'm interested as well. I was just informing you that you had the ability to close the thread when you told Esav to feel free to close it.

I don't think Phade's comment was aimed at you personally. I think he was saying that this topic has been argued to death already, and your decision to no longer avoid companies with less than stellar ethics would have been best kept to yourself.
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I actually do avoid unethical companies. Shame on those who don't, but I appreciate your observation that I don't.

Esav, you are correct. I'll close the thread.

Too many unhappy posts already, and I'm not interested in becoming one of the ones making them. (Hard to do when the shots go straight below the belt to attacks as shown by 3 guardsman...):grumpy:
 
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