Is this a ripoff of an existing design?

[elkins45]

I like this design but I've never heard of "Nedfoss" and before I give them my $29 I wanted to see if it was a ripoff of some knife maker's legitimate product.

 

[norcalAF]

You aren't supposed to link to nonsupporting vendors, and given the price and vendor I'd say it's likely that it's a rip off of someone's design.

 

[elkins45]

You aren't supposed to link to nonsupporting vendors, and given the price and vendor I'd say it's likely that it's a rip off of someone's design.

I will edit.

If it is a knockoff I'd like to know who the legitimate maker is.

 

[jfk1110]

Looks like a Jason Knight design tweaked a bit

 

[tltt]

The Civivi Vaquita came out a bit before it, I figured it took some design cues from those. The Vaquita is a bit smaller -

https://www.civivi.com/products/civivi-vaquita-ii-c047c-1 .

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The handle on the Civivi is tiny.

 

[Bob Denman]

Given enough time: almost everything becomes "inspired", by something else...

 

[Quiet]

Looks like a Jason Knight design tweaked a bit

This was my first thought, honestly.

 

[Shorttime]

I like a bit of mall ninja, just as much as the next guy, depending on who the "next guy" is. It's hard to trust these off-brand companies because so many of their designs are "inspired by" other companies, or even one-man shops who put the work in.

If you're looking for something a little less "inspired by", search up "pocket kukri". The smaller ones are right around 6", OAL.

 

[SharpBits]

Blade profile looks similar to work put out by Adam Wrocinski

 

[Wasty]

Well, NEDFOSS is a trademark owned by SHENZHEN AIYUNDONG TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD

NEDFOSS Trademark of SHENZHEN AIYUNDONG TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD - Registration Number 6053159 - Serial Number 88654228 :: Justia Trademarks

Daggers; Emergency hammers; Extensions for hand tools; Hand tools for repair and maintenance of bicycles; Hand tools for use with burning campfires and previously burnt campfires, namely, fire pokers to move burning logs and previously burnt logs, tongs to pick up burning logs and previously...

trademarks.justia.com

Their website opens to a BK2 clone made of pot metal - I would never touch anything from nedfoss with a stick

There are a few other "brands" like this, Wolfgangs, Odenwolf etc... That's all sweatshop-potmetal-bulls**t made to cash in on a similarity of good knives...

 

[toker]

About us
Even though we're not the best brand in the world at this moment, we are the one which most economical top one in the world.

If that's not a catchy slogan, I don't know what is.

 

[3-1-1]

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If that's not a catchy slogan, I don't know what is.

So good I’m stealing it. Seems fair play.

 

[Danny Linguini]

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If that's not a catchy slogan, I don't know what is.

Somebody translate that to Chinese then back to English and then see if it starts to almost make something resembling sense.

 

[Alberta Ed]

Looks like a conglomeration of several poor designs.

 

[knarfeng]

Looks like a conglomeration of several poor designs.

The knife or the slogan?

 

[Triton]

The knife or the slogan?

Yes.

 

[elkins45]

Yes.

Wow. Tough crowd.

 

[Triton]

Wow. Tough crowd.

Sorry none of that was aimed at you, just that kind of company. I hope you find what you are looking for!

 

[toker]

Somebody translate that to Chinese then back to English and then see if it starts to almost make something resembling sense.

Turns out it's an old Confucious saying.

 

[Henry Beige]

Somebody translate that to Chinese then back to English and then see if it starts to almost make something resembling sense.

Reminds me of a story, perhaps apocryphal, about early language translation software, 1960s. One test they used was to start with an idiomatic expression, translate to Chinese, then back to English.
“Out of sight, out of mind” came back as “The invisible is insane”.: