9cr18mov steel
G10 with liner
titanium framelock
marketed as "steelclaw" already available in a certain russian online shop.
These may later pop up marked as genuine spyderco product, so watch out what you are buying.
Schempp Tuff clone is out, not yet marked as SPYDERCO
Schempp Tuff clone is out, not yet marked as SPYDERCO
9cr18mov steel
G10 with liner
titanium framelock
marketed as "steelclaw" already available in a certain russian online shop.
These may later pop up marked as genuine spyderco product, so watch out what you are buying.
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Most likely Chinese. They are infamous for copying whatever they think that they can sell. They are beyond the reach of Western law and the local Chinese officials can easily be bought. Just like drugs, as long as there is a market for their junk and they can make easy money, this stuff will continue. The fault is every bit as much with the buyers as the copiers and sellers.Pomelly wrote:It seems to me that these clones are made by the same persons or industry, nobody can't do something? A legal action or something like this? Something to scare them...are becoming always more unrecognizable!!!
BTW, I doubt very much that the knife has an iotum of Ti in it. It's probably some kind of cheap steel or base metal finished to look like Ti.
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Since I've handled Chinese framelocks advertised as titanium, yes they do make titanium framelocks. Strong, light, non-magnetic. It's either titanium, or really well heat treated aluminium alloy, and it'd probably be cheaper to make them out of titanium.
As of 2011 China was the largest producer of titanium in the world. They don't have easy access to powder steels, so if it's claimed to be (unless it's a $200 folder, in which case they have the profit margin to import it) it's probably 9Cr18MoV, but they do have easy access to titanium. I would have to get the Tuff clone to check, which I don't really want to do, but I wouldn't see any reason for them to report falsely something so easy to check.
As of 2011 China was the largest producer of titanium in the world. They don't have easy access to powder steels, so if it's claimed to be (unless it's a $200 folder, in which case they have the profit margin to import it) it's probably 9Cr18MoV, but they do have easy access to titanium. I would have to get the Tuff clone to check, which I don't really want to do, but I wouldn't see any reason for them to report falsely something so easy to check.
