2014 Schrade Old Time Gift Set

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I was looking through some of my random knives and realized I must have picked up an Old Timer "gift set" that is label 2014. Any chance this set is made in the USA? I seem to recall some random knives or sets being produced in the US.
 
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Hickory n steel said:
No.
Made in China.
The one and only true Schrade went under nearly 10 years before this set was made.
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I thought the "original"/"true" Schrade ended production when Mr. Geo. Schrade sold his company to Mr. Baer, (or was it to Mr. Devine?) and Schrade became part of Imperial ... or perhaps at the end of the "Schrade Walden Era" when Schrade changed from the standard/traditional pinned construction to the weaker and unreparable Swendon Key construction, invented by one of the Schrade engineers, David Swendon, (who at the time was also a future and either the last or next to last CEO of Imperial Schade USA) and manufacturing was moved out of Walden, New York... or maybe it was when the R.I. Imperial plant burned and production was moved to Ireland and Britian ...
or was it when Schade decided to make "modern" one hand openers, contracting with Asian manufacturers for the production?
(Note that the patent for the keyed construction expired long before Imperial Schade USA did, yet no one else ever copied or used that construction. So it must have had advantages over pinned, right?)

At least the post 2004 Schrade, Old Timer, Uncle Henry, Hammer Brand, and Imperial dumped the weak and defective Key construction, returning to pinned construction.

"But they aren't made in the USA any more!!!"
And ...? What does that have to do with anything?

Imperial wasn't made in the USA after the plant burned down in 1988 or 1989.
Most, if not all, of the "Modern" one hand openers by Schrade were made in China and other parts of Asia. (recall that at the time, Japan, Singapore, and Taiwan were not exactly known for producing top quality goods. They were thought of about as fondly as Made in India and Pakistan are today.)

By 1999~2000 Imperial Schrade USA had a long history of offshore production. So what?

BYW, the current owner of the Scharde brands, BTI, is an American company, not a Chinese company.
Taylor who owned the Schrade brands from 2004 until bought out by BTI in 2015 or 2016, was also an American company.
 
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afishhunter said:
BYW, the current owner of the Scharde brands, BTI, is an American company, not a Chinese company.
Taylor who owned the Schrade brands from 2004 until bought out by BTI in 2015 or 2016, was also an American company.
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And that makes it even worse, it's where the product is made that matters and not where the CEO sits.

I would rather have Schrades very well done 1095 and the inferior swinden key construction over pinned construction and a Chinese equivalent to 440A anyday.
I've had about 4 chinese schrade OT and UH collector sets I was gifted over the years and all the knives were pretty crappy not to mention the ugly darker OT scales .


Btw those post '88 imperials were made in Ireland which is not the same as China, I've had a few and they were decent knives for the money.
Certainly better than I have experienced with any Chinese Schrade.
 
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