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I'm going to be brutally honest here: I think all the animosity toward whoever made that knife is probably unnecessary. If you actually look at a Team Gemini you'll see they're not very similar.
Gemini:
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"copy" Gemini:
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Yeah they both have pierced quillions, a G10/phenolic slab handle, a fuller, and a saber grind but none of those features are unique to Busse. The overall design when I first saw it from Busse wasn't "oh hey look a knife like I've never seen before" it was more like "oh hey another company's stock-reduction built interpretation of a USMC combat knife." Thats not a bad thing, its just Busse's interpretation of a popular style. Lets revisit its origins shall we?
KaBar (horrible company google vector marketing some time)
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And the current issue:
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So the lineage is pretty clear. What about other common interpretations?
Tops (to the right of the two aforementioned):
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Strider: (they made one even more reminiscent, but I can't seem to find a picture)
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ZT/Kershaw:
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Szabo Inc:
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So what does all this mean? It means its a very popular style. And here is the really great thing about Busse: while admittedly some of the charm is in the design, most of it is in the INFI and the brand. That means that unless the blade is a fake busse, meaning its being sold as a busse when its not, I highly doubt its "competing" with busse or doing anything negative to busse because the person who'd buy something that kinda looks like a busse, and the person who has to have a busse, are completely different people. Its not one of those artsy fartsy brands where everyone buys them to put them in a safe and goober over them like some mouth-breather because they can't actually be used as knives.
I'm going to be brutally honest here: I think all the animosity toward whoever made that knife is probably unnecessary. If you actually look at a Team Gemini you'll see they're not very similar.