Strider SnG - Real vs. Counterfeit?

Real or fake?

  • Real

    Votes: 22 81.5%

  • Fake

    Votes: 5 18.5%
  • Total voters
    27
Here's a logo , I can't see the picture well enough to see how it looks, but maybe you can.

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I know that Strider sometimes replaces the stop pins/thumb studs with different and larger ones to correct lock up issues. However, I am not sure if they ever used brass ones either.
 
Could have been a home made pin rather that a Strider factory fix. Rest of ut looks good. There are lots of good copies but I have never seen one duplicate the flamed Ti scale
 
I hear if you can bend the pocket clip back easily it's a fake. Of course that would damage the knife trying that... But If it's a clone who cares.

It just looks like the blade stops are painted or something like that rather than using actual brass. But I don't know alot about striders.

From the pictures it looks like my strider. Mine is 100% real but I'm told that fakes look like the real thing but lack on quality and materials etc.

I'm not a big fan of striders. They don't appeal to me. I won this one in a raffle with another knife I actually wanted. I do like the blade shape and heat treatment for heavier use tasks but hate how much pocket space it takes up and the crappy action. It's also quite thick behind the edge. Also can't forget strider came to be popular off of stolen Valor.

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The logo and steel type are hidden by the blade camo but it says cpm154
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It's probably just the lighting making the thumb studs look like brass. From the pics, it looks to be authentic.
 
Looks real. The lighting is making the studs appear to be brass but they are just uncoated steel.
 
Looks legit to me. I would pick it up because PD1 is a great steel and in CC configuration it is a fairly rare bird.
 
If it's made by one of the better Chinese cloners like Jufule or LDT they are very hard to tell the difference. I got one in a trade and I hate to say it but they are pretty close. There is a video on YouTube that will help you differentiate between real and clone.
 
It looked real to me in person, so I bought it. The stud is in fact stainless - the yellow was an artifact of the light. The blade is also black - it could go either way in the photos. Now to see how much I like using it.
 
Heirphoto said:
Could have been a home made pin rather that a Strider factory fix. Rest of ut looks good. There are lots of good copies but I have never seen one duplicate the flamed Ti scale
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Seen plenty fakes with ti flamed.

Pin might not be brass, might just be heat anodized. Doubt even fakes would use a brass stop pin. Could just be the lighting in the photo too.

At the time when the Striders were having bad lock rock issues (McBurger actually tried to imply it was a feature, but gave up on that when mans were not having it) I had heard that there were certain clones that were actually better made than the real deal. Even today there is a clone strider SnG that has an integral Ti body. Idk if McBurger ever put out a real integral SnG.

Edit: here is a fake with flamed Ti. (This one is actually Microtech DOC)
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I thought I knew what I have, but since I bought it several parties have reached out to me to see if I was interested in selling. So how rare is it? What is the current market value? Coyote CC scales, flamed lock side, black micro melt PD1 blade?
 
Ain’t going down in value, I can only find used or customs.

I read that they would produce standard (non custom) models again under the strider name but who knows.

Will hold on to my dgg SnG and leggo pt
 
JBoone said:
Ain’t going down in value, I can only find used or customs.

I read that they would produce standard (non custom) models again under the strider name but who knows.

Will hold on to my dgg SnG and leggo pt
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They already have produced some production folders-recently DGG SnG 20cv, but the runs are small and go fast. They are out of MSC and marked M Strider rather than Strider
 
AR-Trvlr, you have a real Strider, my friend has the same.

Friends, I decided not to create a bunch of similar topics, and write here.
I bought this knife on Ebay. Blade, titanium board and clip look original,
Axial screw and carbon fiber board look very fake.
I have a Frankenstein monster, or is the blade also fake?
If someone has their Strider SnG stonewashed S30V, please, take your photos.
I'm most interested in the stamp on blade,
the spacing between the letters is not uniform and this seems to be laser-printed...












 
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