All CTS-XHP Cold Steel blades are water jet cut. The older AUS8A blades were stamped. On a Triad blade, look at the tang going into the triad cut out in the tang, and the blade coming out of it. Stamped blades will be dented here from the stamping process. I have never seen a water jet cut counterfeit. So even if they could replicate the Triad Lock, the dents would give away the fact that the blade was blanked. Compare the closed blades.