Help in identifying the designer/ manufacturer

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Hi guys,
I bought from a third party, and I want to identify the maker/ designer mark and from there I will try and find the knife model.
It's a fixed blade, and looks to be from the "game/ bird" type.
The mark (since I enhanced it, but for some reason cannot upload it from my computer) - looks like an elongated letter "G" with a knife handle sticking off its top right (or if you will, a knife silhouette, where the spine does not close to the handle but rather curls inwards.

Any help in understanding who the knife maker/ designer is, will be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

UR7knife
 
UR7knife said:
Hi guys,
I bought from a third party, and I want to identify the maker/ designer mark and from there I will try and find the knife model.
It's a fixed blade, and looks to be from the "game/ bird" type.
The mark (since I enhanced it, but for some reason cannot upload it from my computer) - looks like an elongated letter "G" with a knife handle sticking off its top right (or if you will, a knife silhouette, where the spine does not close to the handle but rather curls inwards.

Any help in understanding who the knife maker/ designer is, will be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

UR7knife
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Needs a picture of the overall knife plus closeups of any markings. Do not use a flash when you take the photos.

As a registered user, you can post pictures using a picture hosting site. There are several free ones.
If you use imgur,
create a free account
Click <NEW POST>
Follow the directions to upload.
Once a picture has been uploated, go to the top right and mouse over the bubble with the first letter of your user name. That gives you a drop down.
Select "Posts"
That will show all your images. Click the image you want to post, then to the right at the top, copy "GRAB A LINK" address.
Then go to your post and click the "insert Image" tool on the tool bar. (It is located between the LINK tool and the SMILEY tool.)
Paste the picture address into the resulting popup, then click "Insert".

If you use another hosting site:
Once you have uploaded a picture to the hosting site, copy the web address of the picture. Note: picture web addresses must end in .jpg or .gif

Then go to your post and click the image tool on the toolbar next to the smiley tool. Click the link icon in the popup. (Looks like a chain.) Paste the picture address into the window. Then click the INSERT button.
 
Arathol said:
Pictures needed. There are hundreds of posts on how to do this.....Search function is in the tool bar, upper right corner.....
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Thanks for the response guys
I wiil try and upload the knife and closup of the blade mark.

2025-12-09_Unanamed knife.jpg

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2025-12-09_Unanamed mark.jpg

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Sorry - these are two separate knives - the photo of the whole knife (Nessmuk style) - is another one I cannot identify - just a different one.. - Would appreciate help in identifying it too..)
 
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Taz said:
Tunafire GT0196 knives according to Google lens. Take the picture and search Google images.
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Thanks Taz, this is what I found also, but I hesitate to address this as their own design. Usually, they are "inspired" by American knife makers. This one seems to be very promising as a nessmuk knife (outdoors food prep/game prep). I'm trying to find the original designer that inspired Tunafire's knife..

As for the Original one, you could find it under 'Trskt', by performing a google photos search, but again, it being or claiming to be Magnacut steel, I highly doubt it.
Here is the one with the aforementioned "G" mark:
G - knife
 
The first ones are based off the Canadian Belt Knife from Grohmann or the Nessmuk; many manufactures make their own version of that classic knife.

The other knife is a Chinese special. It's marketed with different steels and different brands (SDOKEDC or Kesiwo) on the interwebs. You take your chances with what the actual steel is and if the heat treat was done properly or not. I do not see it coming back to a design ripped off of another maker?

I think that weird G may be the manufacturers mark or something? It doesn't come back as a brand logo when google lens searching it. Some of the brands have it, others don't. Both knives look to be Chinese made blades, with unknown quality. They often stamp whatever logo they want on their blades to help them sell, even doing counterfits of real blades.
 
Taz said:
The first ones are based off the Canadian Belt Knife from Grohmann or the Nessmuk; many manufactures make their own version of that classic knife.

The other knife is a Chinese special. It's marketed with different steels and different brands (SDOKEDC or Kesiwo) on the interwebs. You take your chances with what the actual steel is and if the heat treat was done properly or not. I do not see it coming back to a design ripped off of another maker?

I think that weird G may be the manufacturers mark or something? It doesn't come back as a brand logo when google lens searching it. Some of the brands have it, others don't. Both knives look to be Chinese made blades, with unknown quality. They often stamp whatever logo they want on their blades to help them sell, even doing counterfits of real blades.
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Thanks Taz,
This is exactly why I was trying to find the original manufacturer/ designer.. - This "G" seems to obvious not to be a knock-off (their Magnacut is supposed to be 60-61 which is a lot softer than optimum for that steel. Yet..)
It might also be that there are well known Chinese knife designers by now, and the "G" stands for that designer. This particular design, I've seen marketed only under Trskt, which are a mother company for several Chinese knife makers, but generally produce quit good F&F, and OOB sharpness (I cannot speak of Heat treatment, since I never went though the process of trying to damage them, and my file testing margin is too big (5 HRC from file to file).
In general, my experience when it comes to equipment, is trying to "catch" upcoming firms, before they become too expensive (e.g., I started digital photography with Sony cameras when they where just starting, and very competitively priced..-Not the case nowadays).

So for now I'm left with a Tunafire GT0162 original, and a Chinese ONLY Trskt knife with a mysterious maker/designer mark.._ I hope to identify them both in the future to be sure of what they are, Better yet.. -I hope they outperform my expectations..-Then even if I don't really know what they are, as long as the ARE and performing...
 
jmgruber said:
It’s unfortunate you’re purchasing counterfeits
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It is also unfortunate that the ones I want, I cannot acquire. I also buy discount shits and pants, and they are not "name brands" - this one sometimes just the reality. It still doesn't make me unappreciative to the OGs, and if I had the money to spare, and apparently, there are also regulations, which prevent me from getting a lot of them directly from the US (I tried). Again, one of the reasons I ask these Qs is just in case I get to the point at which I can buy the originals.. - Otherwise, why even ask..
 
Regardless of your circumstances or reasoning for purchase, these manufacturers are stealing. Even the fact they use a Maker’s Mark that’s not quite the same seems to prove their guilt 😕
 
jmgruber said:
Regardless of your circumstances or reasoning for purchase, these manufacturers are stealing. Even the fact they use a Maker’s Mark that’s not quite the same seems to prove their guilt 😕
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Then you condemn also official knife makers, like Eafengrow, Trivisa, Haao, and other who may be influenced by some designs but do their own design and sell it as such? -For me it is "a step too far". It is capitalist world. If you want to make you living out of making knives, do it competitively. Don't blame others for doing exactly that, but better. BUT this is not why I asked the Q, and out of the scope of the discussion. While I appreciate your point of view, and while you seemingly do not appreciate mine, it is a mute point. Neither of us establish commerce relations, and laws and regulations.
 
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