Made in USA???

[Mt Airy]

Forgive me but I am new to knifes .I am a 1911 Pistol shooter ,anyway I have heard some talk about some Spyderco knifes being made in Taiwan I thought they were American made?????

 

[gundude73]

spyderco's are made in a handful of countries. USA, taiwan, china, japan, and italy off the top of my head.

 

[jjg6319]

Spyderco utilizes several locations to assemble their knives:

Taiwan,
Golden, CO USA
Seki City, Japan
China

It just depends what model you are considering as you will have to look to see where it is made.

I would not be concerned which location builds the knife as Spyderco only uses plants that meet their standards.

Incidently, I feel the Taiwan knives are some of the best quality in their line up.

Regards,
Jeff

 

[EZ Bake]

Forgive me but I am new to knifes .I am a 1911 Pistol shooter ,anyway I have heard some talk about some Spyderco knifes being made in Taiwan I thought they were American made?????

Depending on what 1911 you shoot, there's a very slim chance that all of its parts were made in the USA (not talking smack, I love my Imbel-made 1911 frames). It honestly used to be a big deal to me - I wouldn't own a knife made in Taiwan. Then I bought a Sage 1 and a Gayle Bradley. I got over any hang-ups I had immediately.

 

[anthony cheeseboro]

Remember the old Walker model was made for Spyderco by Klotzli in Switzerland too.

 

[Vanguard41xx]

Spyderco has their knives made in either-

-USA
-Taiwan
-China
-Japan
-Italy

Personally, their USA and Taiwan knives that come from them are the best.

 

[The Deacon]

Remember the old Walker model was made for Spyderco by Klotzli in Switzerland too.

True, and the titanium version of the Peter Herbst was made in Germany.

 

[notos&w]

http://spyderco.com/catalog/ This page allows you to sort by country of origin. The complete list is here: http://spyderco.com/catalog/list.php?origin=United%20States

 

[Sal Glesser]

Hi Jeff, Mt Airy,

Welcome to the Spyderco forums.

While we are always growing our US facility, we also make knives in the countries mentioned above. Finding makers good enough is a problem for us, so we'll take them wherever we can find them. We've tried many over the past 30 years and still only have a few. Have to kiss a lot of toads to find a prince. We are fortunate to have the makers that we work with. Each maker also has their production capacity, so often, models have to wait.

sal