Boker knives true or not true?

[robertj298]

Read this on Facebook

 

[screened porch]

It could well be true, if too few people are paying the premium for German manufacture. Looks like they'll still be made in China and Argentina.

 

[robertj298]

When I reread it I notice it says many not all. I imagine many of their knives are discontinued
each year. The Ad makes it sound like they all will.

 

[Peregrin]

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[screened porch]

Oops.

 

[JohnDF]

Sales technique?
or a sad day in the pocket cutlery world?

 

[afishhunter]

Probably possibly likely true. Seems the number of Boker Tree Brand patterns with the Solingen tang stamp have been decreasing over at least the last few years, anyway.
They're just now admitting it.

What's left now? Barlow, Stockman, and maybe the one and two blade slipjoint folding hunters, and fancy stag handled 1880's to pre war style 6 blade sportsman's/scout/camp knife?
Maybe they're dropping the latter three, leaving the Barlow and Stockman? Or perhaps everything but the Barlow?

Honestly, it don't matter to me. I can't afford the Boker Tree Brand made in Solingen knives, anyway. The "Boker Plus" and "Boker Magnum" offerings are at the top of my budget ... if not over.

 

[Hickory n steel]

Sounds like they ( stopped sending me catalogs in the mail so I shop elsewhere now ) are just stretching the truth a bit to sell knives.
How many is " many " ?
And " no longer manufactured at the factory in solingen Germany " could mean a couple things.

It could very well be that a few models are being discontinued.

 

[meako]

I gave up on believing in Boker a while ago...it was around the time they began using plain language to confuse and bemuse me...."made" and " manufactured" became unshamefaced lies at the hands of Bokers international trading law scribes...too much blarney for my taste and sadly outweighing my desire to own one....in short great knives but too much b#$$@€ks.
That plus ...wait a sec its not Jan 2021 yet anyway.

 

[JSutter]

Well, fwiw, Kissing Cranes also left Germany some years ago.

 

[screened porch]

This is my only new-bought Boker Tree Solingen Germany. It's a beautiful knife, but I guess it didn't sell, maybe because they called it a two-blade stockman and there's no such thing. It's a perfectly good serpentine jack.
Anyway, I could afford this one, which made it unique among new Solingen Bokers.

Olive wood.
The almost exactly upside down shield is my work.

 

[tltt]

Looking at the German Boker site, they have production lead times on certain Solingen models through the early spring. Still 100s of German made models available. If I had to guess, this is just a normal line shrinkage, rather than anything crazy.