Camillus Closes Its Doors-- Who Will Make Remington Knives Now?

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Just read that in Blade magazine.

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You should spend less time on print magazines and more on the forum, since this is months old news.

Discuss!

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The 2007 Bullet knife was made by Bear, so it seems they may take over some of the Remington stuff.
 
DaveH said:
You should spend less time on print magazines and more on the forum, since this is months old news.

Discuss!

:jerkit:
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Well some of us don't have that much time, like your self, and I'm new to this forum. Judging by your smug know it all attitude, I would guess that When you aren't on the forum, I'll bet you're doing what your emoticon is doing. Relax.:D
 
What set me off was the smugness and arrogance of adding "discuss" to the end of your post. It assumes you have a topic worthy of discussion, which you didn't, and that we are somehow your minions that you can control, which we aren't.

Similarly you posted about a carbon fiber hood you could cut up in general when there are other forums better suited then general. Did you not take the time to even look around a little?

I'd send this in email but you have that turned off. No matter I'll just add you to my ignore list.
 
The answer to your question is that some remingtons are being made in Japan and China and some in Italy. I'm not sure who the actual manufacturers are but I would bet the Italian ones are made by Fox. I believe the latest bullet year knife was made by Gerber. Camillus hasn't made a Remington knife in well over a year. That was when the bank started running the company and that was guaranteed to fail as a concept. Banks aren't good at running businesses that aren't banks.

Another large problem is that of Cold Steel. They not only had the Carbon V knives made at Camillus but they owned the machinery on which it was made so they took quite a hit when Camillus bought the farm. The knives that were made by Camillus for Cold Steel are being moved to Taiwan and China. Many are already available again as imports.

I can't tell you about Boy Scouts of America. I assume they will get them offshore as well unless someone like Gerber or Case steps up to make the camp models.

I would guess that over the next year Camillus will become a fond memory like Schrade was the year before.

Let's try to hang on to the remaining U.S. knife manufacturing because it is sinking fast. All the major U.S. manufacturers except Case and Leatherman, I think, have at least some production overseas but they still do make knives here. I'm talking about Buck, Gerber, Kershaw, Benchmade, Spyderco, Kabar, Ontario etc. even though Gerber and Kershaw are foreign owned companies. Keep buying those U.S. made knives.

Smaller manufacturers like Microtech, MOD, Strider and Reeve etc. have niche markets and can probably continue to make knives in the U.S. exclusively if they want to. But these will be the exception to the rule, to be sure. Starting a company to make knives exclusively in the U.S. would be a high risk venture if not lunacy.
 
EdgeOn said:
I believe the latest bullet year knife was made by Gerber.
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Can you give your source for that? The 2007 Remington Bullet Knife "The Renegade" is a swing guard lock-back, which I don't remember Gerber ever making???

And your right, the new "tactical" Remingtons made in Italy are by Fox.
 
It is guess on my part. I said I believe it was made by Gerber, not that I know it was made by Gerber. The knife is U.S. made. There aren't many manufacturers left that could have made it. Gerber and Case are the only two that come to mind. I'm not aware of Case doing any OEM work for anyone although they might. Gerber does lots and lots of it. Queen, perhaps? They do some OEM work. Do you know who made it?
 
EdgeOn said:
I'm not aware of Case doing any OEM work for anyone although they might. Gerber does lots and lots of it. Queen, perhaps? They do some OEM work. Do you know who made it?
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Case has done alot of it in the past, Queen certainly does and is who I had hoped would take over the Bullet Knives, but there are noticable differences between the Remington 2007 Renegade Bullet and a Queen or Case Swing-Guard pattern, pin placementand lock locations are different.

There was some discussion about it on another forum and it seems Bear & Sons Cutlery did at least the 2007 Bullet.

I would love to see Queen do future ones!
 
Considering the magazine article states they closed on Feb. 28th (which is clearly seen in the topic starter's image), why would you announce this news to a knife forum in April? You think no one on these forums wasn't aware of a major knife company going out of business and closing it's doors on Feb. 28th by now? :)
 
I was under the impression that Camillus had closed and reopened/was still in business, but judging by this thread I guess not. Are they going to do the Taylor/Old Timer thing of importing knives made to their old designs, or are they totally closed for good? I haven't looked at this topic in awhile bc I thought they were back up and running. Also regarding what someone was saying earlier about Gerbers, since they were bought by Fiskars do they make anything in the US?
 
Camillus is closed, period. Did they sell the name? Who knows? Maybe a baby Camillus will rise in its diapers in a Chinese factory ...

But the old Camillus plant has been shut down and all the workers are on their own. Their was a brief pretense of running it as an importer of cheap overseas knives.

Gerber has a factory in Portland, Oregon. I don't know which knives are made there and which are imported. Their reputation takes a hit for some of the cheap imports, but they still do make reasonably reliable knives. Uncle Sam seems to hand out their multitools like candy.
 
DaveH said:
What set me off was the smugness and arrogance of adding "discuss" to the end of your post. It assumes you have a topic worthy of discussion, which you didn't, and that we are somehow your minions that you can control, which we aren't.

Similarly you posted about a carbon fiber hood you could cut up in general when there are other forums better suited then general. Did you not take the time to even look around a little?

I'd send this in email but you have that turned off. No matter I'll just add you to my ignore list.
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and I'll put you on my ignore list.
 
DaveH said:
What set me off was the smugness and arrogance of adding "discuss" to the end of your post. It assumes you have a topic worthy of discussion, which you didn't, and that we are somehow your minions that you can control, which we aren't.

Similarly you posted about a carbon fiber hood you could cut up in general when there are other forums better suited then general. Did you not take the time to even look around a little?

I'd send this in email but you have that turned off. No matter I'll just add you to my ignore list.
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what a welcoming community

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Come on, rottwang, don't generalize. Everyone didn't get mad about it.

I don't like posts with "Discuss!" or "Your thoughts!" But that's just someone else's way of speaking and I agree it's a good idea to give a new guy a while to define himself.

Sometimes they catch you on a bad day. :)
 
z282z06 said:
Just read that in Blade magazine.

camibade.jpg

discuss
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You and rottwang should throttle back on the attitude a bit. It would be a good Idea to check and see if news of a 125+ year old american knife company closing 2 months ago had made it to the biggest internet knife site around before hitting the site to announce the news. "Discuss"? We did. You missed it.
Rottwang-this community is very welcoming to people with a little less attitude
 
Esav Benyamin said:
Come on, rottwang, don't generalize. Everyone didn't get mad about it.

I don't like posts with "Discuss!" or "Your thoughts!" But that's just someone else's way of speaking and I agree it's a good idea to give a new guy a while to define himself.

Sometimes they catch you on a bad day. :)
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of course, poor choice of words on my part
 
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