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That's why I made the post, I cannot find another knife like this online. It's not a big deal for me, the friend said if I get it verified as a counterfeit he will refund my money and take it up with the person he bought it from.
Picked up from an individual. Never seen these rivets on a US made model before. Is this one legit or a counterfeit?
The box looks legit, but the knife is not black...
I have since had a conversation with whomever at Spyderco through emails, asking them questions about the color, texture, and steel type. Using these same images and some closer higher-rez ones showing the ball bearing lock inside. They never mentioned the color, the steel, or the font, or lock. They simply told me there was no way for them to tell from the images if it was a counterfeit or not, that if I wanted to know if it was a counterfeit I would have to send it back to them and if they determined it to be a fake they would return it to me at my expense.
Welp, that's not super satisfying but I suppose it's better than being immediately confirmed a fake. I hope it works well for you.
The way I see it is this. If the details are so good that the officials at the company who makes these knives cannot tell if it's fake from looking at hi rez close up images of all the parts of the knife? Then either I have to accept this one as real, or I have to accept that the counterfeiting has gotten so good and so precise that any Spyderco knife I ever look at in a store from now on has a high probability of being a fake, because it could have been switched out anywhere in the retail stream from the Spyderco factory to the purveyor. And the only way to be sure I avoid them would be to avoid purchasing Spyderco knives at all.
Mistwalker
your Manix 2 is not real
I get that, but I did not ask them if it was a counterfeit, I didn't make it that far. I was told by a friend he had never seen one in that color and that steel. At the time I had a full weight Manix 2 in CMP S30V so I knew they made some in that steel. I just asked if the color and steel type were something they had legitimately done.Spyderco and most other manufacturers aren’t going to answer authenticity questions without the item in hand. The exception might be something that’s so obviously fake like the liner lock para 2.
The small raised area in the "beak is ever so slightly off center to the right, but so are the ones on Spyderco, Blade HQ, Knives Ship Free, and Knife Center websites.
If so I would have expected Spyderco to say so when directly asked that question, instead of citing how many changes have been made in steel types, grind angles, edge bevels, and scale colors over the years. And if I wanted to know if it was a counterfeit I'd have to send it to them.
Don't do that, you paid hard earned money for them. In the event they may or may not be fake at the end of the day, do they cut? Do they lock up securely? Do they hold an edge adequate for your needs? If so use them for the tools that they are and enjoy them. And in the future only buy from reputable dealers so you know you are getting what you expect and your money is going to a company that obviously is making something good enough worth copying.
I understand your sentiment, but you're missing the point I'm trying to make. I will carry the ones I have I don't doubt any of the ones we have, including this one now, it looks and behaves in no ways that make me think counterfeit. And though I bought this one from a friend who has a resale shop, the delicas my daughter and I carry were bought directly from a legit distributor that many knife dealers by from. That's why if Spyderco says this one is fake as precise as all the details are , then I will never be able to buy with confidense that any others haven't been swapped out anywhere in the retail stream even from "legit" sources including an employee at Spyderco or at the distributors. Employment at a company, any company, doesn't presuppose morals and scrupples. And no I wouldn't throw the ones we have away I guess, too sentimental from our adventres at this point, but they would certainly become the last Spydercos I bought.