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Grey s30v PM2 - fake or real ?

Probably not a fake but a sprint run that someone sniped the CTS-20CP blade for another project and replaced it with the S30V blade.
 
Barman1 said:
Probably not a fake but a sprint run that someone sniped the CTS-20CP blade for another project and replaced it with the S30V blade.
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I think you may be right on the money there. The blade looks legit, jimping and markings are correct. All the hardware looks good.
 
Not sure what's going on with your pictures there but you have a knife and a knife box covering all the details.
 
It looks legit to me, but there are two things that kinda bother me that I cannot get a full idea of in your pics.

1. The area where the plunge meets the edge on the side the first 2 pictures are on doesn't look right. It looks correct on the other side of the knife, but none of the pictures give a good enough view to confirm that.

2. The machine finish on the smooth metal behind the jimping near the lock between the handle scales doesn't look consistent with the finish on other PM2s, at least not in the picture where you show it well.

As others have said, the scales are likely from the Sprint run that used gray scales. The texture on those looks to be legitimate. Also, why would someone faking a Spyderco put the wrong scales on it? Especially someone capable of making such an accurate copy? The knife has exactly the same number of jimping in all areas, the noticeable beginning on the plunge on the spine side of the spyder hole looks correct, the lettering looks correct, the fasteners look correct, the clip, and the holes for 4way carry all look legit. Usually some of these are off, of course I have seen two knock offs recently that had all of the basics correct, and the only clear differences were the area where the crown terminates before the plunge line was not cut in a square fashion as all Militarys and Paramilitarys are, and there was a slight difference in machining on certain interior parts of the metal - and the user thought the texture of the G10 was off. Of course, if they used legitimate scales, that would not matter.

Take a better picture of the choil are, and take another picture of the back jimping with better lighting, or 2-3 angles of lighting if you'd like. I'd say just from what you have here that Barman and JungleJim are correct.
 
My recommendation is to not purchase it. It's either a frankenspydie, in which case you never know how skilled the person putting it all back together was, nor how well the parts match up, or it's a fake.

Am I the only one here for whom the plunge looks rounded? It almost looks like it was ground on the side of a large wheel. I don't have my PM2 on me to check if that's normal, but it seems off to me.
 
MJF said:
My recommendation is to not purchase it. It's either a frankenspydie, in which case you never know how skilled the person putting it all back together was, nor how well the parts match up, or it's a fake.

Am I the only one here for whom the plunge looks rounded? It almost looks like it was ground on the side of a large wheel. I don't have my PM2 on me to check if that's normal, but it seems off to me.
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The plunge is radiused on the PM2, but the edge is not tapered into the plunge, nor does it run right into the ricasso (which one side looks like it does in those pictures). The edge ends in an almost 90 degree stop point just shy of the plunge, leaving a few mm between where the radius of the plunge ends and where the edge starts.

Either way, I would have to agree with MJF's recommendation, UNLESS you really like the gray scales on a PM2. If that's the case and the price is fair, I think enough of the knife looks legit to take a gamble on it myself, but I'm not 100% sure about it.
 
Hi,

The knife is 100% original, i am the original owner of the knife.
The s30v knife was bought from Hungary and later on i swaped the blades between the sprint one and the s30v one.I sold it to a guy here in Romania.
Incredible how small is the world.
 
hancea said:
Hi,

The knife is 100% original, i am the original owner of the knife.
The s30v knife was bought from Hungary and later on i swaped the blades between the sprint one and the s30v one.I sold it to a guy here in Romania.
Incredible how small is the world.
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More like how the small the world is of people that photograph and post knives, lol.

Mystery solved!
 
hancea said:
Hi,

The knife is 100% original, i am the original owner of the knife.
The s30v knife was bought from Hungary and later on i swaped the blades between the sprint one and the s30v one.I sold it to a guy here in Romania.
Incredible how small is the world.
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It may be 100% genuine Spyderco parts, but it is not 100% original - as many observed and as you confirm, the blades have been swapped.
 
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