china made knives

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I just want to see how many people own china made knives? this means any knife made in china or knives made of imported parts, also if you do own them are you willing to get rid of them, hell let's see a show of hands of anyone willing to make a pack to our local boys and support our true usa knife makers by discarding their imported pos's!

I have some and am willing to clean my collection to the bare bone roots to get down to just usa made stuff, are you?
 
I do. Will I give them up? In a word, no. I have made love to the spyderhole in my Tenacious; that is how much I love it.
 
The knives I own that were manufactured in China were designed in the USA under US companies. The profit stays here with us. Sure a little trickles off to china where the top workers get... what like 2 bucks an hour, head of operations gets maybe 6-8. Americans wont work for that, we would laugh at that wage.

I think that when a US company makes knives in China that it creates jobs for us anyway. The knives go to a price point that would not be possible if they were manufactured here, therefore a nich in the market is fulfilled and we stand to skim profit off of it. If that same US company made the knives in the US, the prices of said knives would go up and they would no longer be in the lower price nich, therefore they would just compete with other US companies creating a loose loose situation. By extending manufacturing to China the knives are cheaper and they reach a wider audience. We make money that we otherwise would not.

Does this make sense to anyone else?

I guess if it were put into relative or competitive terms, the question is, "is the profit that we stand to make by manufacturing in China worth more than the industrial foundation that they are able to buid off of our bussinesses?"
 
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I own a few myself, I have a Spyderco Tenacious and Buck Iceman and a Whole pile of Swiss Army knives and no, I wont get rid of them. I love them. I do support U.S.A Made knives though. I just love the ones that I have that are made across the pond. I carry the Tenacious daily and it has served me well. I cant see getting rid of such a great knife no matter were its made. I do however understand your feelings on such a thought but Honestly in this World we live in today how much stuff do you really own that is not made overseas. Think of just the stuff in your house besides knives. Are you or us getting rid of those also? Im just being realistic.
 
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I own a few myself, I have a Spyderco Tenacious and Buck Iceman and a Whole pile of Swiss Army knives and no, I wont get rid of them. I love them. I do support U.S.A Made knives though. I just love the ones that I have that are made across the pond. I carry the Tenacious daily and it has served me well. I cant see getting rid of such a great knife no matter were its made. I do however understand your feelings on such a thought but Honestly in this World we live in today how much stuff do you really own that is not made overseas. Think of just the stuff in your house besides knives. Are you or us getting rid of those also? Im just being realistic.
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Arent most computers made in China?....::foot:LOL
 
I have some and am willing to clean my collection to the bare bone roots to get down to just usa made stuff, are you?
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I'm a European and proud of it. Following your logic, would you agree that I should only keep my Europe-made knives? Should I get rid of my Spydercos? It's a matter of supporting the local guys, after all...
 
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I have some and am willing to clean my collection to the bare bone roots to get down to just usa made stuff, are you?
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Nope. Some of my China-made are pretty good knives. I'll be holdin' onto them.

thx - cpr
 
sorry for doing this, but just had to see where the forum stood on the china subject, people need to see that just because a knife is made across the pond does not mean they are junk, I do think it is important to purchase usa only products when feisable but, I own many elcheapo winchester, oldtimers and a slew of other knives that would fall into this class, after just these few posts I belive most who post crap about cheap knives are buying nothing more than a name, yes quality does count but there are alot of cheap quality out there to be had, sorry for the trick but I had to know!
 
There's always some new guy who thinks he just invented the wheel.
Would you believe this exact same topic has been done to death?

Thanks to the rest, who responded so nicely! :)
We just don't need another politicized rant.

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