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Unfortunately, also in the world of blades, there is the counterfeit market of main brands knives.
Generally these fakes are being offered on Chinese online stores, but also on several online stores apparently beyond suspicion.
As a first suggestion you have to be wary of products sold at excessively low prices, in addition, if the seller does not guarantee the authenticity of the knife, it is better to look more closely at every detail of the product, comparing them with the photos of original products that are always on producers offical websites.
Unfortunately, it is becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish original products from fakes, because in the latter are given false information - written on blades or packaging - about places of production (although the fake knives are made in China - and Asia in general - they are marked with the place of production which appears onto original models); it is notice that also fake knives have serial numbers, just like the originals.
Here are some conterfeit knives of prestigious brands. In some cases we make comparison with the original product.
We make an appeal to knives enthusiasts to be careful not to raise the counterfeit market that are hurting honest businesses in favor of those who enrich themselves by doing commercial parasitism by exploiting innovative and inventive efforts of others to gain benefit in a completely illegitimate way.
Alessandra De Santis
Piero Petronzio, accredited member of Italian CIC since 2012 and Master since 2016, owes his passion for blades to his father, a lover of modern history and collector of military weapons.
In 2011 when he was just 20 years old, Kyle Royer became a Mastersmith through the American Bladesmith Society.
Stefano Trentini was originally a motorcycle mechanic but in 1987 he embarked on his path as a knife maker purely as a hobby, drawing inspiration from a stainless steel bar in his own workshop, thus creating his knife n ° 1, which is still proudly conserved in his laboratory.
Full time knife maker from South Africa, Wayne Morgan creates high quality hand forged knives.
Valentino Fachin, Master CIC since 2007, approached the world of knives in the mid-80s, beginning his journey as knife maker in a completely self-taught way.
Lee Lerman, knife maker from Netanya (Israel), was fashinated by knives since he was teenager and he found his vocation for knife making at the young age of fifteen.