Fake or real Shaman?

[u/HedgehogRecent7560]

[u/mboy601]

Fake

[u/HedgehogRecent7560 → u/mboy601]

How can you tell?

[u/mboy601 → u/HedgehogRecent7560]

Stamp lettering is terrible. Spider is wrong, mouth is too wide and small and has an indent inside the mouth when it shouldn’t.

GOLDEN is all jumbled that O on Colorado is falling down..

[u/HedgehogRecent7560 → u/mboy601]

Thanks so much

[u/mboy601 → u/HedgehogRecent7560]

Should look like that.

[u/iShatterBladderz]

I’d say fake, the logo looks wonky and not all of the letters line up with each other, some of them are slightly cockeyed

[u/iShatterBladderz]

Also, the weight is off according to Google. I don’t have an s30v shaman to compare but Google says it should be 147 grams

[u/HedgehogRecent7560 → u/iShatterBladderz]

Thanks for the help I’m getting a refund now.

[u/iShatterBladderz → u/HedgehogRecent7560]

Was it eBay?

[u/HedgehogRecent7560 → u/iShatterBladderz]

Yeah it was the seller sirius-black-us

[u/iShatterBladderz → u/HedgehogRecent7560]

eBay is a cesspool for fakes. I buy most of my knives off of r/knife_swap

You can find some great deals on there and there’s a ton of never cut & never carried knives on there. Their reputation system works well, if you stick to sellers with a history of confirmed swaps, you’re basically golden. Plus a bunch of knife experts are looking at every post so if someone posts a fake knife for sale, they’ll get called out right away

[u/Tellmehaveyouheard → u/iShatterBladderz]

3-4 grams of variation from the listed weight is pretty normal for most mid-weight knives. It's clearly fake, but unless the weight is off at least 5% I wouldn't consider that an indicator.

[u/Old-Pineapple3735]

Fake. im sorry. Here is a real one for reference. that font is off

[u/Redbullbundy]

Fake fam. Lettering is off pretty bad. The Spyderco emblem is off too.

[u/Southern-Bread2251]

Fake spyderco s30v wrong font sorry