Does PSRK make Ganzo?

Lee48 said:
I've used this example before. It probably will PO some but it's not my intention. I consider it one of those "learn from history" lessons. I have a background in photography, having done it as a hobby, as a career and as an obsession--sorta like knives. Considering the history of the photographic industry should be instructive.

Industrialized Asian countries have a long history of copying Western products. Prior to WWII, Japan had a number of camera and optical companies. The more successful ones made copies of German Contax and Leica cameras and lenses that were considered cheap knockoffs in the West. Pros and knowledgeable amateurs in the West wouldn't be caught dead using a cheap Japanese camera. But during the Korean War, photojournalist David Douglas Duncan (who recently died at age 102) tried out some Japanese lenses that fit his Leica cameras and found them to be pretty darn good. In fact they were superior to the German Leica lenses he was using. His colleagues were also impressed and started buying them as well and they introduced quality Japanese optics to the West. Those lenses were made by an optical company called Nippon Kogaku, better known today as Nikon. Nikon also made cameras that were copies of the German Contax. They made lenses for another Japanese camera maker known as Canon. Canon made cameras that were copies of the Leica. Sound familiar?

Today the cameras and lenses from both Canon and Nikon are top of the line professional products. Contax, as a brand name, has disappeared. Leica has become a boutique brand, overpriced and usually serving as jewelry to those who can afford them.

I'm not saying all Chinese brands of knives are excellent examples of fine cutlery. But you learn from history or you're doomed to repeat it.
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Don't even try and rationalize it. It's wrong no matter what to copy identical look of other products to sell your own. Even after countless amounts of mnfg telling them to stop.
 
lonestar1979 said:
Most sanrenmus and real steels are good knives,i hope they start using real d2 with optimal ht.Had few Chinese knives marked d2before but it was some soft crappy steel,but i dulled edges and tips and uset it as practice knives,used them for couple of years untill they broke down,now are in garbage lol.Real steel knives are very good for price.
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Its cause they don't have the equipment or time to put into heat treatment for 10$ knives. Or they mislead by using random steel.
 
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Dude, I am a Chinese and I think I can give you the answer.

They are totally different brands.

PSRK, we call it"百浓". He makes clone knives, but has his own original design as well. PSRK concentrates on fixed blade knives. I have never found any folding knives branded as"PSRK"

GANZO in Chinese is"关铸"，generally focusing on folding knives.

Hope this would help.
 
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