New maker, his name is Mr. Fake.

Santi

Santi

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Here's a story:

Once upon a time, Mr.Fake figured that selling some real nice "custom" knife is not that difficult and could made him rich, as long as he price it right.

So, he went to a real knife-maker to purchase a bunch of nice blades, fixed and folders. Sometimes he asked the maker to has his name "Fake" satmped on the blades; sometimes did't, and all blades still have the maker "logo" on.

He then, booked a table at the knife-show. Attending the show, acting as if he made those knives all by himself, and selling them for good.

And laugh all the way to the bank.

He even started doing a web-site selling these blades on-line.

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Possible, eh? :confused: :rolleyes: :mad:
What do you think?
 
I've seen this sort of thing. It's pretty sad really, that someone would lie about it. If the guy is up-front with customers and tells them that he's getting his blades ground by someone else, that's one thing...but when he starts lying about it....that's just bad ethics. :(

Nick
 
Ok, ok, so could someone do this and just call it the "throat-slasher, model 6969 supressed"? Well, to be honest, YEAH!!!!:o I could be suckered into buying one. If they looked purty, were WELL-MADE, not too expensive, NOT too in-expensive, had some fit and function to the "still in training eyes" I LOOK thru, I could be had:eek: :eek:
So, having said this, are you going to know fill me in on some finer points so I DO NOT get "had" at some knife show in the future???????Thanks, I would really appreciate some help here......wolf;)
 
Whats wrong with being upfront and just telling people that he is a dealer? There are lots of well respected folks who sell custom knives made by others like the Sadows, Les Robertson, Larry Connely and Dave Harvey to mention a few.

Or does this guy get a kick out of pretending to have skills he does not? As for marking his name on knives made by somebody else this has no place in the custom knife business.

Andrew Limsk
 
Santi,

It is not just new makers. There have been some cases of very well known knife makers who have done this. One in particular bought basically a finished knife, then put their name on it. Sold it as their own.

Neither of these two makers involved are in business any more.

I will say I agree with redvenom, there is nothing wrong with being a custom knife dealer :D

But in Santi's case I think the person is trying to pass him/herself off as a knife maker.

One more thing Santi, if you want to tell people about this person. This place is not the venue to choose. Private emails are better....legally that is.
 
The people who do this put the REAL makers into a very bad light with the public.
It makes it twice as hard for the legit maker to sell their knives for what they are worth!!!

We had one at the my last knife show who did kit blades with his name plastered all over them.
No other maker there spoke to him all weekend.
To the even semi trained eye you can tell they were kit blades.

If your ever not sure ask them if they can make a knife for you and be very specific with the blade dimensions, steel, grind Etc.
They will usually start to squirm or will outright lie to get out of making your blade :barf:
 
Originally posted by Les Robertson
if you want to tell people about this person. This place is not the venue to choose.
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Thanks for a sound advice, Les. ;)
 
there are people like this in every field of life.
Publish their names.......and move on!
 
There are variations of this that are legitimate (IMHO). For example, I want to sell a line of knives along with other things having my name on them. I design (or help design) the knife, and then go to a maker and pay him (or her) to make me some number of them, and stamp my name on them.

When I sell them at the show, I tell people I designed the knife, but that is all, I didn't make them. I presume since there is no intent to deceive, this would be legit.
 
Matthew, IMHO if you let people know that they were made by someone else, then you are doing nothing wrong. It is the ones that try to pass these knives of as being made by themselves that I have a big problem with.
 
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