INFO-ALL KNIFE MAKERS!!!!

[8x57]

I can’t see the need for a knife that costs over £100

When i was a butcher I used nothing but victorinox, still use the same brand today, over 20 years and the blades are as good today as they have ever been!

My stalking knife is a EKA swing blade, that’s because a clients gave me one as a gift.

These fancy expensive knives are designed to cut the stalkers wallet and are for in my opinion for the tarts amongst us

If they are that good, why do I see no end for sale second hand in the classifieds and see hardly any of the bomb proof Mora clippers?

Lee my thinking is very similar to yours. I too have a swingblade which is the most expensive knife that I have ever bought. It's not perfect but I like it a lot and am glad that I bought it. While I wouldn't buy a knife that was more expensive than that I appreciate that some people are happy to pay more and get enjoyment from their purchases, each to his own.

What does amuse me though is a friend and an acquaintance of mine who were stalking together. The acquaintance has done well in life and boy does he like to flaunt it. On this occasion by boasting about the custom made knife that cost him several hundred pounds. This chap shot a roe and asked my friend if he would gralloch it for him as he didn't want to use his own expensive knife that he was so proud of. I'm not allowed to write the exact response that he got from my friend other than to say that he not so politely declined.

 

[Alantoo]

This chap shot a roe and asked my friend if he would gralloch it for him as he didn't want to use his own expensive knife that he was so proud of.

One for going up and one for coming down and one leading nowhere just for show...Fiddler on the Roof.

Alan

 

[Highfield]

when you start making knives by the dozen and punting them out via numerours retailers plus making them for other people surely you are a factory not a custom maker anymore. i certainly wouldnt group them in with the main custom makers who do commisions and inovative designs. probably nice knives and clearly clever at the marketing and social media stuff but not worth a custom knife price tag. i wonder how many of the deer celebs that use them paid for them?

 

[norma 308]

Once the Chinese find out the knife design is popular they’ll be knocking them out for buttons.
Let’s see how their lawyers get on with that gig

indian guy on fb did many bought them !

 

[8x57]

I can’t believe they’ve bothered with this. It can’t go anywhere, I think whilst it would be possible to trademark a name such as cael, trying to,protect a shape of knife is ridiculous. As has been pointed out that shape existed years before ember leaf. They should concentrate on marketing their craftsmanship or materials or whatever it it that makes them unique, because it definitely isn’t the shape of the knife.

I agree, I think it would be very difficult to copyright a design that has been around for such a very long time based solely on general shape.

 

[sikamalc]

Over the thousands of years all sorts of shapes and designs for knives have been designed and made. I fail to see how anyone can lay claim to a specific design. Frankly I think Emberleaf are blowing smoke up their ar.e.
A stupid approach to make against another knife maker, who has by all accounts been in the trade longer than them, and it appears to make just as good, if not better quality knives at a better price in my opinion. NOT that I own a knife from either maker.

 

[rafael fach]

Although I don't own an emberleaf I have held one (the cael) very nice indeed .would I pay the price asked no not when I can buy this knife for a quarter of the cost from Jeff Wiggins which I hope to use tomorrow

 

[75]

I can’t believe they’ve bothered with this. It go anywhere

Absolutely agree! Whatever the truth behind it, all they’ve achieved is to make themselves look bad and give a small knife produced loads of publicity!! like many people, I’d never heard of Greenman before now!

 

[Highfield]

Absolutely agree! Whatever the truth behind it, all they’ve achieved is to make themselves look bad and give a small knife produced loads of publicity!! like many people, I’d never heard of Greenman before now!

just a look at me power trip.

 

[soulboy1957]

As an ex chef, that design has been in use in larders for meat prep /Butchery since god knows when, I was using and still have my set from the early 70's
Shame, I was considering an emberleaf, not now.

 

[Sonicdmb73]

I get the feeling that the only people who will get rich from this is the Solicitors.
I have seen various similar things in the past
A recent claim by Gibson re it’s mandolin and guitar designs for instance. Lots of makers make SG’s Les Paul’s and F5’s. The result was Gibson told tough you didn’t act soon enough to protect your designs. Basically they need to show it was their designs and they actively protected them from the start.
Let’s face it the general shape has been around for years before either maker started.
You would spend a lot of time and money to try stop every maker that makes a knife like yours.
The backlash on social media has potential to cost far more than any perceived loss.
Last dealings I had with a solicitor hours were charged quarterly and were into hundreds of pounds an hour. Is it worth it, was the advice from whom ever gave it the best?

 

[Stalker62]

This, I kid you not, used to hang in my solicitor's office.

 

[NoIDeer]

That design is a mini butchers steak knife, been around forever!

 

[devon deer stalker]

I can’t see the need for a knife that costs over £100

In that case I'll sell you one of my butt ugly knives for £95 when I see you next
Actually I think I might trade mark that name 'butt ugly custom knives'
Cheers
Richard

 

[Alantoo]

Actually I think I might trade mark that name 'butt ugly custom knives'

There is a whole history of a few thousand years of butt ugly knives...I think you are on a loser...honourable precedents...but what makes yours so much worse than anybody else's in order to enable yours to achieve that exclusive market cachet?

Alan

 

[JabaliHunter]

I haven’t followed this issue and frankly I’ve better things to do with my time. I’ve never understood the fascination with emberleaf knives, but they certainly seem to have a big marketing budget and have succeeded in creating some hype. That suggests to me that they either have a high margin or economies of scale (polite for mass production). Either way they need to go a long way to convince me that they make anything better than Stuart Mitchell, Alan Wood, or even Geoff Hague. That’s where I would spend my money.

 

[Klenchblaize]

I haven’t followed this issue and frankly I’ve better things to do with my time. I’ve never understood the fascination with emberleaf knives, but they certainly seem to have a big marketing budget and have succeeded in creating some hype. That suggests to me that they either have a high margin or economies of scale (polite for mass production). Either way they need to go a long way to convince me that they make anything better than Stuart Mitchell, Alan Wood, or even Geoff Hague. That’s where I would spend my money.

“We (Emberleaf) are not a big company, there are 3 of us including the apprentice.”

K

 

[JabaliHunter]

“We (Emberleaf) are not a big company, there are 3 of us including the apprentice.”

K

What does that prove?

 

[deerstalker.308]

“We (Emberleaf) are not a big company, there are 3 of us including the apprentice.”

K

Possibly so in the knife making side of it but there was more besides that running the operation....

 

[hedge hunter]

I'm guilty of being a knife hoarder call it what you will especially alan woods knifes the last one I bought is an absolute beuty.thanks 270 trooper. Most are secondhand cant afford the new ones☺.emberleaf I should be so lucky.the prices are mad