So now SOG is borrowing Buck designs?

That isn't a rip-off, two different designs. There are only so many ways you can put a blade on a handle and make it not look a little like the other guys. Or maybe it is a conspiracy between certain knife companies to copy certain other companies designs? Besides, that Buck is a new design, who says SOG didn't have it on the drawing board first?
 
Don't see that at all - that blade style is definitely Sog, has been for a while. The Buck blade looks nothing like it. Also, the Buck appears to have a flipper, none on the Sog. The Sog also has a finger groove that is not on the Buck but you knew that anyway.

In conclusion, the only similarity on these two knives is that they are knives.
 
they are identically priced......thats all i see in common.......but id get the sog. i have too many buck knives already

fried
 
It must be SOG bashing day. What you suggest in the original post isn't possible in the way you think. SOG produces in Japan with several months lead time involved. The Buck was released last month. The only way SOG could have stolen the design would have been to use a corporate spy because the stealing would have to have been done months ago. If that is the case, then how do you know the spying wasn't done the other way around? I think I would abandon this line of reasoning, OP. There isn't any logic to it.
 
VR, sorry, but that dog won't hunt. About the only thing those knives have in common is a handle and a blade. :rolleyes:
 
If you read the desription on the SOG, the bolster lock is just another adaption of their arc-lock, whereas afaik buck never used anything like this. Now who's stealing?
 
Besides, that Buck is a new design, who says SOG didn't have it on the drawing board first?
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The Paradigm was unveiled at the 2009 shot show 21 months ago. Not saying its a deliberate copy but it could definitely be some of the inspiration used.
 
Yes but it was released just last month. SOG wouldn't have been able to get one physically until then. The concept could have been copied but not the design. Concepts are copied all time. Assisted opening is a good example. Locking liners are another.
 
And spyderco......SOGZILLA my ass, should be called SOGERCO....or SOGDURA :)
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My friends, I got pulled over into this thread by a link in the Buck forum.
I have no desire for either knife or to continue in the thread discussion, but if any who are interested in continued chewing of this subject would go and search the Buck forum they will find some early birds who quickly ordered the Buck very early in 2010 got less than a 100 in there hands before shipments were stopped to do some slight retooling of interal mechanism. So the Buck has been out in the open for several months, not just last month. That was unveiling number two.....FYI good luck and I am gone back to Buck Land.
300Bucks
 
Hitzy said:
And spyderco......SOGZILLA my ass, should be called SOGERCO....or SOGDURA :)
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Where is the beating the dead horse smiley? Yes, it looks like an Endura, get over it already.
This goes for everyone who keeps bringing this up, if you don't like it, don't buy it, no need to publicly bash a company every chance you get because you don't agree with its knife designers (or lack of).
SOG makes some good knives and all this negativity towards the company might be turning people off of them before they get a chance to form their own opinion.
I don't like the SOGZILLA either, but I don't mention it everytime someone starts a thread about SOG.
Phew! Rant over;).
 
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