New Dog's Head Ka-Bar. Who makes them?

[Jolipapa]

All the subject is in the title! I have recently seen new trappers with attractive jigged bone - price in the same league as when made by CSC - and wonder what they are worth - in terms of quality and where they are made.
I dig the dog's head.
Any idea?

 

[screened porch]

Not really. Sometimes it seems like the guys making a knife are keeping the secret for the guys pretending to have made the knife. Or maybe I just don't know where to look.

 

[zzyzzogeton]

All the dogheads on Kabar's website state that the dogheads are "Made in the USA", but no indications as to who in the US made them - whether Kabar or someone on contract for Kabar, like Queen or GEC or someone else.

Kabar and many other US cutlery companies have had a long history of swapping work, as well as making SFO runs for sellers. The US cutlery industry has been incestuously trading work for over 100 years.

 

[Jolipapa]

All the dogheads on Kabar's website state that the dogheads are "Made in the USA", but no indications as to who in the US made them - whether Kabar or someone on contract for Kabar, like Queen or GEC or someone else.

Kabar and many other US cutlery companies have had a long history of swapping work, as well as making SFO runs for sellers. The US cutlery industry has been incestuously trading work for over 100 years.

This is a practice that exists in a lot of industries. I'd rather think of "exchange of good practices", assuming quality is the result (see Winchester and Remington knives)I was curious on that point. Ka-Bar DH knives are quite expensive and you must expect a certain level of quality. CSC dood it, does the new maker follow that trail?

 

[Wurrwulf]

Were all of the previous Dog's Head knives made by CSC or just the Copper series knives?