Hey look... Somebody's ripping off Gerber

I saw a Boker knife that looks a lot like Gerbers Fatty model. Is it a ripoff of Gerber or vice versa? Don't have the pics.
 
The Gerbers themselves are crap nowadays, for the most part anyway. If you want one of the designs, you might as well buy the copy. I can't imagine the quality being much different, and Gerber doesn't deserve any product loyalty for coming up with there own designs, thats for damn sure.
 
SlimWhitman said:
Just saw this at home depot today...


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Not the first time, I remember when that Gerber Applegate folder came out there was a knockoff out almost immediately. It was being sold on that tv shopping network knife show.

The resemblence is too obvious on this knife. I'm apt to believe that Fiskars is contracting the manufacture of this knife from a chinese manufacturer, and is selling it minus the Gerber name with different packaging.
 
<<The resemblence is too obvious on this knife. I'm apt to believe that Fiskars is contracting the manufacture of this knife from a chinese manufacturer, and is selling it minus the Gerber name with different packaging.>>

Different packaging, same quality.
 
TorzJohnson said:
Yeah, I think you guys might be right - some Chinese factory is probably making the same knives for everybody including Gerber.
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This is what happens, based on my understanding. A basic pattern with some small changes is offered to all comers(importers), Gerber probably designed it first though.
 
I traded my bm 940 for a scheffield and a winchester and came out ahead because I got TWO new knives for one slightly used one.
 
hardheart said:
At first I thought maybe the Sheffield and the AR were the same, but the rubber inserts are different, the handle shape seems a little different (fatter on the Sheff), and the clip point is a little more pronounced as well, imo. So they aren't the same knife. It's weird that they're ripping off a cheaper design.
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Just speculating out my a$$ here - but maybe since their target is the cheap mass market, they're quite possibly knocking off what their target customers normally buy, rather than making bad copies of expensive knives their buyers never really look at anyway? I don't think many people buying these pieces of crap are people who even think about picking up a Benchmade or Spyderco - they're folks who look at a Gerber or Kershaw or Byrd or Benchmade Red and say "Nah, I don't want to spend $20 bucks on a knife, whatcha got for $5?"

Make sense to anyone else?
 
Nick,I follow,anyone who would throw money away on a piece of crap woulnt recognise a copy of any thing but department store better crap.
 
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