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As a maker of knives using premade blades, I can usually, quickly, pick out knives that were made from blanks because I see the designs daily. I've been finding more and more people who are making and selling these knives but fraudulently passing them off as their own designs and ground with their own hands.
One guy in particular sells a kitchen knife using the Prestige Chef's blade offered by Jantz...he has an asking price of $650 for it. Yes, SIX HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS! He also claims that it is ATS-34 stainless, when the blank is actually 440C. I thought well, maybe he just copied the design....trying to give him the benefit of the doubt. Upon closer inspection of the blade it looks identical to one that I ordered from Jantz. There are some that appears to have a corner rounded here and there, but that still doesn't make it his.
After going over his website and then his Facebook page and reading comments he had made about "learning how to make knives from his grandfather" I had had enough and called him out in private messaging then publicly on his page. Instead of responding, he deleted all my comments and then blocked me. If that doesn't scream "caught red handed" I don't know what does.
It really burns my ass that this guy is taking people for a ride for enormous amounts of money and nothing can be done about it.
One guy in particular sells a kitchen knife using the Prestige Chef's blade offered by Jantz...he has an asking price of $650 for it. Yes, SIX HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS! He also claims that it is ATS-34 stainless, when the blank is actually 440C. I thought well, maybe he just copied the design....trying to give him the benefit of the doubt. Upon closer inspection of the blade it looks identical to one that I ordered from Jantz. There are some that appears to have a corner rounded here and there, but that still doesn't make it his.
After going over his website and then his Facebook page and reading comments he had made about "learning how to make knives from his grandfather" I had had enough and called him out in private messaging then publicly on his page. Instead of responding, he deleted all my comments and then blocked me. If that doesn't scream "caught red handed" I don't know what does.
It really burns my ass that this guy is taking people for a ride for enormous amounts of money and nothing can be done about it.
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