American Commitment. Good job Buck.

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I just read this article about Buck and the American Commitment from 2009. The rest of the article goes over outsourcing. Good job Buck.
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I was pretty cynical about this back when Buck was making a big deal about onshoring their knives. Fast forward to 2016, cynicism looks pretty justified. Even back then Old man Buck even admitted in some interviews what he was selling was the idea of "Made In America" more than knives, so it made good sense to make a display of bringing knives back from China. Once again, it supports my theory that a whole segment of knife nuts is more interested in constructing an identity than actual knives. And companies are savvy enough to meet the demand.
 
Quite a few are made here now.Makes me happy
 
shecky said:
Old man Buck even admitted in some interviews what he was selling was the idea of "Made In America" more than knives, so it made good sense to make a display of bringing knives back from China. Once again, it supports my theory that a whole segment of knife nuts is more interested in constructing an identity than actual knives.
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I see nothing wrong with selling the idea of "Made In America" as long as the product in question is actually made in the USA. The problem with buying foreign products, and I'm mainly looking at you China, is that quality control must be constant. Even with the high-quality Chinese knife companies, it is still possible that on the local level, some merchant misrepresented the level of quality of raw materials that they sold to the knife manufacturer. In most cases, would it not be cheaper and more morally sound for these companies to hire American workers for a reasonable wage rather than pay a small fortune to some auditors to travel overseas every few weeks to spot check the product?
 
Makael said:
Quite a few are made here now.Makes me happy
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I am not sure if you are being sarcastic or not.... To me, it seems as though a large portion of Buck knives are made in China currently. I for sure have not seen a change in the last few years. I personally like Bucks, but have a hard time buying a made in china knife from such an "AMERICAN" company and agree with Shecky above.
Bruce
 
bralexander said:
I am not sure if you are being sarcastic or not.... To me, it seems as though a large portion of Buck knives are made in China currently. I for sure have not seen a change in the last few years. I personally like Bucks, but have a hard time buying a made in china knife from such an "AMERICAN" company and agree with Shecky above.
Bruce
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Which knives are you looking at? I know a few of the traditional patterns and some folders are made in China but the overwhelming majority of buck knives are made in the US.
 
Maybe I am being too harsh, and no doubt the majority of their knives are made in the US. However, just a quick head count, over thirty models are still made in china, according to Buck's website. It just doesn't make sense to me, because Buck makes plenty of inexpensive knives in the US and not all the china made knives are even inexpensive.
Bruce
 
Totally cool !
I am very happy about that.
I am an American craftsman and will never retire partly due to this "good idea" to get other countries to do all our work for us while we sit around behind a desk and send them orders and materials and know how and train their people for them and . . .

Guess what kids we can't ALL sit behind a desk. Many can't and a whole lot of us DO NOT WANT TO.

excuse me while I tear the heads off about six live chickens . . .
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OK I'm back . . . I still don't feel any better @#$%%^^$## ! ! !!

GRRRRRR

I got to say though fellow Americans you got to get off all the distractions and actually DO THE WORK.
Some of my American mades are not actually up to the standards of a couple of the off shores.
 
Hey, the buck bantams were about 20$ and made in China, now they're made in America and still about 20$ . What this means I don't know, but I like that they realized they could make it for the same cost as the Chinese.
I don't know about you guys, but to me a buck knife is an American made knife and if not its not a real buck knife and I will never own a Chinese buck knife ( if I want Chinese I'll go rough rider for traditionals and somewhere else for modern folders )
 
Wowbagger said:
Totally cool !
I am very happy about that.
I am an American craftsman and will never retire partly due to this "good idea" to get other countries to do all our work for us while we sit around behind a desk and send them orders and materials and know how and train their people for them and . . .

Guess what kids we can't ALL sit behind a desk. Many can't and a whole lot of us DO NOT WANT TO.

excuse me while I tear the heads off about six live chickens . . .
. . .
. . .
OK I'm back . . . I still don't feel any better @#$%%^^$## ! ! !!

GRRRRRR

I got to say though fellow Americans you got to get off all the distractions and actually DO THE WORK.
Some of my American mades are not actually up to the standards of a couple of the off shores.
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You seem tense. ;)
 
Lonewolf01 said:
Which knives are you looking at? I know a few of the traditional patterns and some folders are made in China but the overwhelming majority of buck knives are made in the US.
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Among the imported knives are all of the Selkirks, the Lux, Talus and there's a few more models. What get's me is the Selkirk being made in China. I would have got that model even though I've no use for it. Anyway most Bucks are made in America but there are quite a few models made in China that I wish were made Stateside.
 
As of 2015, Buck manufactured 20% of their knives outside the USA and 80% within the USA. AKAIK at the height of Buck's ratio to manufacturing abroad and in the the US was 50%.

Yeah I would like to see all Buck knives made in the USA as well. But at least they are making progress to bring jobs back to the US.
 
I've been dinged for my political views in some other threads by mods. But every dollar you spend on Chinese items will one day me used to kill American service men so I go out of my way not too. Also are we so effing greedy that a owner of a company would send stuff overseas and take jobs away from their fellow Americans to make a higher profit? I couldn't do it, I still need to look in the mirror.
 
There is tremendous market pressure to have at least some of your products manufactured outside the US, even for companies like Buck. People still look at price first and most people wouldn't know the difference between steels or where something is manufactured. 20% is okay with me.
 
22-rimfire said:
There is tremendous market pressure to have at least some of your products manufactured outside the US, even for companies like Buck. People still look at price first and most people wouldn't know the difference between steels or where something is manufactured. 20% is okay with me.
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Agreed.
 
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