My Gerber LMF II is made in America, but I do get your point. You have to hunt and pick through the offerings to find the "Made in USA" stamp, and BELIEVE YOU ME I am looking for it on every purchase. You can find them, you just unfortunately have to hunt around for them. Most Kershaws I've seen are made in USA, but not all of them I know. Some really good "looking" knives like branded Smith & Wesson, etc., I just blow right past them. No way I'm carrying a Made In China/Taiwan piece of crap into the PAW.

 

alot of buck knives are still made in the us, case,rat ,emerson, or do u just want that fancy cheap tactical knife?

 

Becker, the BK-7 and BK-9

 

Bingo. 'love my BK-7. Made in New York State (I love it anyway).

I have literally beat that knife for all I'm worth, on many occasions. It's the timex of knives; takes a lickin and keeps on tickin. :thumb:

 

double darn post!

 

Politics has forced a lot of manufacturing jobs overseas...sad but true. You'll pay extra for "made-in-the-USA" knives. Quality does cost for some items. Benchmade, Spyderco, Emerson and some Kershaw knives have lines made in the US. For fixed blades, there are plethora of small-custom makers that can make incredible knives for very reasonable prices (considering that they are custom knives). Regardless, if it's a quality company (Spyderco, Benchmade, etc.) I don't have a problem with their imported lines...they have good QA/QC in the overseas factories, and warrantee issues are handled in the US. What exactly are you looking for? Or is it just your observation?

ROCK6

 

I am looking for a good survival fixed blade and several folding knives. I have a Kershaw onion but it seems to be more for my jeans pocket and not suitable for rugged work.

 

There are bark river knives and Orion knives. I believe both are made in Michigan.

 

For a "survival" knife that is a fixed blade, I think you'll find American Quality at acceptable prices with Rat Cutlery, Ontario knives, Gerber, Bark River, Ka-Bar/Becker Knives and Ranger Knives.

Decent folder are pretty expensive, but will still never be as robust as a fixed blade. I know they're not US made, but Swiss Army knives are top notch for an outdoors backup blade. As mentioned earlier, I like Spyderco, Benchmade, Emerson, ZT, etc...they cost more, but you get quality backed by reputable companies and a function folder that will last you a life-time.

ROCK6

 

Don't forget that there are hundreds of great knifemakers who make great knives at decent prices. All made in the USA!

 

Many of the fixed blade knives made by Marbles are stil made in the US. Sadly none of their folders are nor are any of their axes. If you are not familiar with Marbles they make a traditional stacked leather handle with a metal hilt and pomel and their axe has to be seen and used to truely appriciate its design. It has a blade protecter that folds into the handle and the hole for the handle is rather uniqe. I have an old one and it is still solidly attached to the handle sans the blade protector. http://www.marblesoutdoors.com/cutlery/ideal.html

For EDC I have a titanium handled spyderco delica that I have had for a bit over a year. It replaced a stainles handled delica that was stolen while I was at the gym. I had carried it every day for 16 years. In my book that qualifies it as pretty rugged.

 

I try to buy only USA knives. Benchmade and Lonwwolf are hard to beat. I do have a K-bar mule that is from over seas.

 

My Gerber and SpyderCo. were both made in the USA... at least that's what it said on the package.

 

buying made in the U.S.A knives is more of a....how can i say this....a matter of pride and not necessarily always related to quality.

but i think you guys know that....

Anyhoo, i just bought a CS recon scout. Really nice knife, but it says made in taiwan right on it, and while the quality of the knife is great......I really wish they wouldnt print stuff like "made in taiwan" or "made in china" right on stuff. Its like a slap on the face. Especially for a Company thats "american". I'm thinking about taking a black felt tip marker and covering up the made in taiwan logo lol.

i think just because something is made in china or taiwan, or assembled in mexico, doesnt mean it cant be of good quality. But, i know a lot of americans try to support products made in house.....which i think is great.

I think my next knife, i may just try to find something made in U.S.A.

 

Case knives are still made in the USA. At least at the moment.

 

Yeah, But...



I have noticed the quality dropping. I recently bought a new Case and it is not as good as it used to be. I imagine that soon they will be bought out or move to CHINA like everything else.

 

i think for a true outdoors knife thats a folder we need to stop thinking of all these fancy tactical blades, traditional folders have worked before we were born and will continue to work and you can pick them up for a hell lot cheaper.

 

I just bought a couple of case knives a couple of months ago and they were very well made. They were the Chestnut bone with CV steel. Very nice. They run around 60-70 bucks but are good solid little cutters. Queen Cutlery Makes some Amber bone with D2 steel blades that are made in PA. They hold a good edge and are not too expensive.

 

case has a membership club where you get emails on good deals, and join in on contest if you aren't a member you should look into it.

 

I own a case moose which Action Jackson sent over from the USA,It is an excellent knife,very well made and is my favourite folder.

 

I was but never re joined again. There were alot of good deals in the club.

 

Schrade

Anyone miss Schrade? I've heard a lot about Case.

Schrade was a good affordable US made knife until July 30, 2004. Shortly after the Schrade name was bought by Taylor Brands LLC. Schrade is back now but you'll notice that it is made in CHINA.

I was a Schrade user until 2004. Just before closing Schrade came out with all kinds of new knives either trying to stimulate sales or trying to look pretty for the selling of the company (lots of companies clean up before selling themselves).

Case has been changing recently. They were bought out by Zippo in 1993. That was the first drop in quality. Won't be long before they're made in CHINA.

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As for voting ourselves into oblivion. When you have nothing but a bunch of crooks to vote for, why vote? I don't think it's the people that have done this to us but our countries leaders and especially the financial rulers that have bought favors from our leaders. Look who got all the billions in stimulus money - the banks!

 

Anyone miss Schrade? I've heard a lot about Case.

Schrade was a good affordable US made knife until July 30, 2004. Shortly after the Schrade name was bought by Taylor Brands LLC. Schrade is back now but you'll notice that it is made in CHINA.

I was a Schrade user until 2004. Just before closing Schrade came out with all kinds of new knives either trying to stimulate sales or trying to look pretty for the selling of the company (lots of companies clean up before selling themselves).

Case has been changing recently. They were bought out by Zippo in 1993. That was the first drop in quality. Won't be long before they're made in CHINA.

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As for voting ourselves into oblivion. When you have nothing but a bunch of crooks to vote for, why vote? I don't think it's the people that have done this to us but our countries leaders and especially the financial rulers that have bought favors from our leaders. Look who got all the billions in stimulus money - the banks!

My Case moose folder i would not swap for any other folder.

 

So we are doomed to buy from our enemies, facilitate their economies so they take us over and we wont have a good USA made blade to help us survive. Damn I will make my own then any help?

 

I think we will see knives (amongst other things) return to being made in the USA if we can keep up the high tariff on China, or just see them made in Taiwan, or Vietnam, but it's a step in the right direction.

 

Second vote for Case. They make a really good knife for $60. I used mine to open a deer up, and open the chest popping ribs off the breastbone. No problem, no dents, no scratches.

 

I have never heard anything bad about these guys:

http://www.knivesofalaska.com/fixed.aspx

Although I suspect they probably spend more time an a coffee table than actual outdoor use due to the price tag on these things.

 

They look like good knives Sam and not a bad price either.

 

Cruise through an A.G. Russel catalog sometime. Suprisingly he carries a lot of Made in USA knives, and some are very reasonably priced. Quite a few have good old carbon steel blades too. I think we all feel you pain when we see brands we grew up with now come in a plastic clam shell package with Made in (some country that hates us).

 

Yeah I miss schrade I was brought up on them I was upset when they went under and got auctioned off. I recomend if your looking for an american made check out some of the custom guy's I know a guy out of South Dakota that makes osme real nice knives and not too expensive for custom. He is under Polarbearforge.com look him up he will even do a design you draw and I guarantee if he makes you a knife unless you do something stupid with it it will last forever . Also think about making your own fixed blade knife read up on it it's not as hard as you think . Remember you need something that works not nec a show piece. If I had to recomend some foriegn knives though check out Mora of Sweden there knives carbon or stainless will do anything you need and they are pretty cheap and man what an edge you can get good deals on those at Badger blades look him up he has some good stuff plus Atlanta cutlery has materials to make your own knives and it's not that hard I got there dirk blade and got it professionally sharpened I did not know how then . Then I took a rock maple hammer handle reversed itso the fat bottom end is were the tang goes in took a long drill bit drilled the hole almost the same width and length of the tang clamped the blade with leather around it to protect it and slowly screwed by hand the handle on it . You can use lock tight as well then used a good piece of brass for the cap over the blade cutting a hole into it for the blade first used some marine glue behind it and sawed the narrow end of the hammer handle off then paint the handle or carve on it if you want. I can tell you until a few years ago when a friend begged me to buy it I had that knife over 15 years and it kept a fierce edge . I used it for every camp chore you could think of . I am actually ordering another dirk blade from Atlanta cutlery soon and making another . You get the idea you can make your own knife it's not hard or impossible .good luck and have fun : )

 

http://www.bearandsoncutlery.com/index.php?src=directory&srctype=display&id=199&view=Products_detail

I purchased this one for $29 last week. I think it is a quality knife.