make a fake brand knife, but mark it with correct steel type?

sogflash · Feb 5, 2012

why are some fake brand knives marked with the correct type of blade steel? it doesn't make sense to make a fake spyderco and mark it with an inexpensive type of steel. why lie about the brand name, but not about the steel?

jimnolimit · Feb 5, 2012

in a way, it's good that these counterfeiters make mistakes like this.

res1cue · Feb 5, 2012

Probably because the intended buyer has never heard of anything other than 440 or surgical stainless. The fakers themselves probably havent either

singularity35 · Feb 5, 2012

How sure are we that the steel is correctly marked?

sogflash · Feb 7, 2012

I can't be sure it's marked correctly, but why they don't mark it with VG10 or something seems weird. lie about brand, (maybe) tell the truth about the steel.

marcinek · Feb 7, 2012

res1cue said:
Probably because the intended buyer has never heard of anything other than 440 or surgical stainless. The fakers themselves probably havent either

I agree. Anybody who is going to buy a fake probably doesn't know (or care) what steel a real Spyderco is made of.

RevDevil · Feb 7, 2012

sogflash said:
why are some fake brand knives marked with the correct type of blade steel? it doesn't make sense to make a fake spyderco and mark it with an inexpensive type of steel. why lie about the brand name, but not about the steel?

Counterfeiters are in it for the money. Copyright laws, intellectual property laws, trademark laws do not usually exist in the countries where these copies are produced. Bottom line is that they do not care about accuracy, if they did, they would make an effort to do things the right way.

unit · Feb 7, 2012

singularity35 said:
How sure are we that the steel is correctly marked?

Good point, why trust anything...and how could you practically test the composition? I am not convinced that a large percentage of users could really tell the difference between some steels anyway (sure, guys like you could tell the difference between S90V and 1095, but could you nail the difference between VG-10 and 440C in a blind test?)

res1cue said:
Probably because the intended buyer has never heard of anything other than 440 or surgical stainless. The fakers themselves probably havent either

Nice point, are we talking about knives that display the actual logo of the knife they are portraying, or that just bare a resemblance through design/style/features?

RevDevil said:
Counterfeiters are in it for the money. Copyright laws, intellectual property laws, trademark laws do not usually exist in the countries where these copies are produced. Bottom line is that they do not care about accuracy, if they did, they would make an effort to do things the right way.

Good point, but some DO care about accuracy (at least as far as looks are concerned). I am not at all convinced that some knives bear the markings of popular supersteels and composition of FAR lesser alloys. Many buyers probably cannot tell the difference (either they lack the ability/experience/knowledge, or they put the knife in a collection and never even experience the (low) level of quality they actually own)