Something familiar about this "TV knife"...

Ginsu knockoff..?

I remember the commercials where they would cut a aluminum can in half then slide e a tomato.

The serrations look like Spyderco style.

Why the different ones on the front?

I'm with shanghai, looks like a ginzu knife.

Quick get a penny and tomato for the real test.

Speedo66 said:

The serrations look like Spyderco style.

Why the different ones on the front?

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For taking teeny slices of bread sticks...

It's no treasure

I actually have one of those that was left in a drawer of this house we moved into back in August. Still in the original package. I took it out and tried it. It's a real piece of junk.

Some knockoff of the wonderknife ?

Knock-off of the Ginsu knife.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginsu

It was the first knife I remember ever seeing advertised on TV.

So the cheap TV knife of the OP's was a knock-off of the cheap Ginsu knife first advertised on TV nationwide 75 times a day & night, 24/7.

The Wonder Knife was also a rip-off of the original TV Ginsu knife.

rc

Mom bought one for the house in the '70s, the knife actually worked as advertised and was used to cut all manner of things in the household. Even though I had moved my parents into forged & handmade knives over time, my mom still kept that old ginsu around. I think that I finally snuck it out of their house around 2008 and tossed it without her knowledge. Even though part of the handle had melted and the serrations were bent, rolled and dulled from 30 years of use, it was probably still usable for another 30 years.

It was ugly, thin and cheap, but it performed as advertised and could handle pretty much everything an average user could throw at it. Respect!

I got a real one and after 18 years of cutting it still slices maters and bread as good .

The so-called SpyderEdge serrations are a copy of an even earlier design.

FWIW, the serrations on the blade tip are pretty much like what the original 1919 patent looked like. Scallop type serrations have been around since the end of the 19th century.

http://www.google.com/patents/US1388547

Dunno when the two were combined.

Interesting case:
http://www.leagle.com/decision/19336762FSupp674_1460


Hmmmm... I might try my hand at cutting some serrations tomorrow.

conw said:

Some were kind of surprising, can't remember any or find that source at the moment unfortunately.

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You want the patent database for Louis S. Glesser.



https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=pts&hl=en&q=ininventor:"Louis+S.+Glesser"

How about the tip itself, "it's a knife, it's a pickle fork......" ;>)