Anyone have an idea of what total production numbers Queen puts out yearly?

Btw... I am going to guess that GEC with their traditional pocket knife lines, does better today than Queen and it's lines of traditional knives.
 
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PocketKnifeJimmy said:
Btw... I am going to guess that GEC with their traditional pocket knife lines, does better today than Queen and it's lines of traditional knives.
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I wonder if either one of these Mfg. would like to make that information known to the general public. I personally doubt it.

Tom
 
Actually, GEC puts out yearly totals on their stuff. They likey don't share the numbers that they make for other firms... but one can kinda make good guesses on those. As for Queen, I don't know... but would like to :-)
 
Double Ott said:
I wonder if either one of these Mfg. would like to make that information known to the general public. I personally doubt it.

Tom
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Have you seen the production reports GEC puts out every year listing the knives sold by them? It's on their web site - the .net one.
 
Modoc ED said:
Have you seen the production reports GEC puts out every year listing the knives sold by them? It's on their web site - the .net one.
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Obviously I didn't see the GEC production reports. Thank you for mentioning it. Now we don't have to send them a email.

Tom
 
I am 47 years old, and when I was growing up as a kid, Schrade, Case, Buck, Camillus, Remington, and a few others, were the ones I saw at stores. I gotta admit, I knew nothing about, nor had ever heard of Queen up until I recently started collecting traditional type pocket knives. But, just glad they have stuck around :-)
 
I am the same age Jimmy. In Texas the only Queen you ever saw was a Big Chief, which was sold in Army-Navy stores for some reason. Yet my uncle, an Arkansas native and Mississippi resident carried a winterbottom Queen stockman. I wonder if it was a southern prejudice against stainless knives? My grandfather would not spit on a stainless knife.
 
MarkPinTx said:
I am the same age Jimmy. In Texas the only Queen you ever saw was a Big Chief, which was sold in Army-Navy stores for some reason. Yet my uncle, an Arkansas native and Mississippi resident carried a winterbottom Queen stockman. I wonder if it was a southern prejudice against stainless knives? My grandfather would not spit on a stainless knife.
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I think it was a generational thing against stainless steel. My own father and grandfather would not take time to spit on a stainless knife if it was on fire. I think it goes back to the early days of the 20th century, and the really poor example of some of the stainless that was around in the early days. I think some of it had to aspire to be bad. To be bad, was a move up in the world from where some of that stuff was.

Yet by WW2, stainless had taken a very large step up, and was then at the mediocre level. Post war, a lot more was known, and better stainless knives were available. Now of course, we have some very very good stainless around. By the time we're gone, our grandkids will be saying; "You mean those old guys had knives that would rust???"

Times change.

Carl.
 
I would be willing to make an educated guess that Queen Cutlery produces ten times as many knives as GEC does in a years time. Even more now that they have new ownership. It seems to me the new owners of Queen want to make a run of every traditional pattern known to mankind in their first year.
 
rma100 said:
It seems to me the new owners of Queen want to make a run of every traditional pattern known to mankind in their first year.
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I wouldn't think they'd want to go that far in their first couple of years at least as they have a tremendous amount of old stock (made before their purchase) to clear out first. Then we might see them doing as GEC is now doing - introducing multiple patterns over a short time.

I wish Queen well. I have some of the pre-2006 knives that are just first rate. It those 2008 through mid-2012 knives that seem to have issues - gaps, poorly ground blades, dullish blades, etc..
 
I am the same age as you guys too. And a Mississippi resident. My daddy and father in law both said that there were Queen knives around, but just like Jackknife said, nobody wanted them much because of the stainless steel.
I gave my father in law a Queen stockman with a D2 blade several years ago and he was real hesitant about it until he used it for a while. He said "these are a lot different than they were in the 50's." he said they wouldn't hold an edge back in the old days.
I think their production numbers would be fairly high. Assuming your counting the Schatt Morgan line as well.
 
Modoc ED said:
I wouldn't think they'd want to go that far in their first couple of years at least as they have a tremendous amount of old stock (made before their purchase) to clear out first. Then we might see them doing as GEC is now doing - introducing multiple patterns over a short time.

I wish Queen well. I have some of the pre-2006 knives that are just first rate. It those 2008 through mid-2012 knives that seem to have issues - gaps, poorly ground blades, dullish blades, etc..
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They've all ready done it. Look at their website. Tuna Valley, Queen Cutlery, Queen Classics and Schatt and Morgan, all manufactured by Queen. Many new patterns, even whole new lines in each Brand.
 
I would love to check out Queen's website, but it crashes my browser every time. Too much stuff on the home page, the web developer needs to remember that not everyone is accessing it with a shiny new PC.

As a knife nut, I'd rather spend my money on their knives than buy another PC...;)
 
Web Developer? That's probably Ryan Daniels. Vice President, Advertising Executive, Sales Manager and Purchasing Agent. No, they do have somebody else doing Inside Sales. And a Purchasing Agent who is also in charge of QC.
 
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