How much for Bear Grylls reproduction?

Nice looking knife Jack :thumbup:.

BTW you guys do realize this is a 2 year old post that was bumped, right?
 
I must say that I'm struck by the brazen request to copy someone else's design. Granted, there's nothing very original or interesting about the design, but that doesn't excuse the impropriety of asking someone to steal intellectual property on your behalf.

Please, folks... use a little common sense when making requests for custom knives. If you like something about a design, comment on that... but for heaven's sake, don't ask someone to copy a design. You might land them in a lawsuit.
 
MilliePop said:
Looking for a quote on how much you would charge for a repro of this Bear Grylls knife in let's say 1084FG?

Link below

http://www.bayleyknife.com/site/bear.aspx

http://www.bayleyknife.com/site/technical.aspx
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Well, the design of the grip... and of the website are pretty much copied from Extrema Ratio's (old website, the new one is different) - this also to answer tryppyr otherwise good point.
Apart from this, I surely like the plain edge design. The serrated "interrupted" edge is a great way of ruining a good knife but, hey, it's the modern fashion... :jerkit:
After all, they build what people buy.

Anyway, I kinda laugh when I see all this hype about wonder finishes, super-tech steels (or is it super-tech finishes and wonder steels? Whatever) and improved, special-ops tested designs, when people did well for about 500 years with plain old carbon steel knives like these

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And are happy today as well.
 
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Fletch Helical said:
Nice looking knife Jack :thumbup:.

BTW you guys do realize this is a 2 year old post that was bumped, right?
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Most administrator frown upon necro'd posts, but I believe if a post gets "revived" is because it's interesting, at least to somebody. :p
 
Now I get the $525 number, sorry I didn't read the original post date when I first read it.

WGrabia: what would you change?
 
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Sorry, I got an email this morning from someone wanting a quote to make this knife, and I referred them to BF, I don't know how they found this necrotic thread, but . . . oh well, I'm sure they can find someone who will make it

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tryppyr said:
I must say that I'm struck by the brazen request to copy someone else's design. Granted, there's nothing very original or interesting about the design, but that doesn't excuse the impropriety of asking someone to steal intellectual property on your behalf.

Please, folks... use a little common sense when making requests for custom knives. If you like something about a design, comment on that... but for heaven's sake, don't ask someone to copy a design. You might land them in a lawsuit.
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I agree with you in principle. But I doubt there exists a case where someone successfully sued someone else for infringment of a knife design.
 
I can see a lawsuit on a folding knife, like a lock mech or something, but a fixed blade? If I make a clip point stacked leather fighted, is kabar gonna try to sue me? I mean really, knife designs all borrow ideas from each other, and it would never hold up in court
 
a couple things, i would sorta tone down the clip point a little little bit, make it more of a drop point, I would lengthen from the top to bottom of the face of the blade by about 3mm. making the face a little bigger. i would keep the top of the knife flush like on the top and the excess blade will be at the bottom. i would take the serrations back a little bit. make them a little bit smaller on the cutting edge of the blade. also i would take the ground edge up a little higher on the knife. add another bolt hole just after the indent in the handle, another hollow pin. and i would also take the tang out the end of the handle a little bit, maybe a mm or two, just on the very end.
i think i think thats it.
 
I recently bought this exact duplicate of a Bear Grylls knife on ebay. It appears to be exactly the same in every way. The only difference is the steel is made of AUS8 stainless steel. I like AUS8 because it is not as brittle as high carbon blades and I can also take it into salt water without having to worry about it rusting.
 
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