Fake Becker’s

GeofS

GeofS

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Oh boy. :confused:

I have a close friend that knows of my Becker affinity. I’ve even gotten him a BK5 and a BK11.

He dropped by this morning with a gift he thought I’d like. I haven’t even inquired where he got these yet, all I did was give him a gentlemanly thank you.

This is my first experience with fake Becker’s, ugh. :thumbsdown:

They came in a nondescript brown box. Hope you like left handed sheaths.
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Clunky wooden handles with the wrong hardware. This side says “STAINLESS STEEL”.
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This side says “CHINA”. I can’t say I was surprised.
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This one shares more than a passing resemblance to the Brute I just got.
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I don’t know what this blade is pretending to be.
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Awful quality all around. I’m sure there’s a 50/50 chance I’d see flying shrapnel if I swang either into a log. Just look at the warped scale gap.
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These are awful. Avoid these ersatz blades. :thumbsdown:
 
I can’t answer that. Doesn’t say Becker anywhere on it.
 
I mean... it unequivocally sucks. It really does and there's no moral justification for cloning/homage, etc... Let me preface this by stating that as my position.

Now, with that out of the way, it doesn't say BK&T, nor does it say Kabar on the blade. The handles are flat slab-sided Becker-esq in shape, but also generic enough that I think it would be hard to peg it exactly as a Becker handle.

The one that is shaped like the BK1, is very close in blade shape, and I think it would be hard to argue that it's not from EB's design. The other knife almost looks like the blade from the Kabar Cutlass, or Ontario SP53. It's not a particularly uncommon blade shape.

Honestly, that one with the bolo-ish blade shape wouldn't even register to me as being related to Becker, if I saw it in the store or something. The one with the blade shape like the Brute though... In my mind, that's EB's blade design.

I guess what it comes down to is, since they don't represent themselves as Becker knives, and the look like, but are not really replicas of Becker's knives, is this something where Kabar/BK&T should go after the manufacturer even if you could? I dint know. I don't know how close it has to be to be considered a clone. If I ruled the world, the BK1 rip-off gets the manufacturer in deep doo-doo, but the other one gets a pass.

Either way, I'd throw them both in a fire just in case! I have little patience for clones or things that come close.
 
19-3ben said:
Either way, I'd throw them both in a fire just in case! I have little patience for clones or things that come close.
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I want to swing them against hardwood to see if they’ll shatter. I’ll wear safety glasses. :)
 
GeofS said:
I want to swing them against hardwood to see if they’ll shatter. I’ll wear safety glasses. :)
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I wonder. If they are "stainless" I wonder what steel they are actually made of. Presumably 3cr or some such. I wonder if it's more likely that they are brittle and would shatter, or that they are super soft and will just take a bend.

What you really need to do, is lay one of those knives on a stump, and then use that BK20 to hack the imitators to pieces. The mighty Bundok shall crush its enemies, see them driven from before it, and hear the lamentations of their women.
 
Good on you pointing them out for people that aren't familiar with Beckers .. but at least they are not even close so anyone with any knowledge of Beckers won't fall into buying any.

Nothing's sacred anymore ... can we "fix" this seller with a very dull 9 ... after soaking it in brine?
 
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Even before I understood the difference between good and bad knives, I'd have run away from those. They look about as nice as those Harbor Freight survival knives.
 
mrn8 said:
Even before I understood the difference between good and bad knives, I'd have run away from those. They look about as nice as those Harbor Freight survival knives.
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Ya know... I have a buddy who is the worlds cheapest SOB in all the wrong ways. He’s the kind of guy who would buy two dozen jarbenzas, rather than spend $75 on one decent knife. He’s also a contractor and many of not most of his tools are from Harbor Shite.

He has one of those dopey survival knives fom HF. You know, the kind with the empty handle with the unscrewing compass cap.

Anyway he has been flat out abusing that knife for years. Using it to chip away at tile, hack at wood in carpentry jobs, hammer on it to use as a chisel etc... and it has yet to break. By all reasonable logic it should have failed years ago. It’s a horribly made turd of a knife.

Just goes to show how overbuilt most of our knives are considering that we use them as they were meant to be used.
 
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