Ontario Knife Company Sold?

Nope. It was suppose to be a "Boot Knife". But with the large handle... I got mine for deer cuttering uppering or for large critter cutting season. A 5160 blade comes in handy like my RD4 and NS4 have shown me. Where the nice decent sized handle makes cutterizing less fatiguerizing on the hand holding the fingers.
 
mbkr said:
Given the closure of the existing plant, I'd say its a good guess that production will now be in China
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I just saw an SP19 design for sale on an auction site. It was listed as an SP10 with 'TRAILBLAZER' printed in gold on the presentation side of the blade.

Makes me wonder.
 
SP-10, the best OKC jack of all trades blades. Ones I gave away, have all gotten my friends and relatives out of what became minor situations instead of some thing worse. Same as the RD6s I gave away. I gave them away for that just in case that seemed to be the cases.
 
Did anyone see that the Ontario Knife website is shut down? Has blue ridge started production?
 
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I was hoping to see the website maybe have a facelift and some indicator that they were gonna start production again but instead it’s not there. That’s why I was wondering if the company that bought them out was about to start production?
 
I'm thinking all we'll be seeing from blue ridge under the Ontario name is their Taiwan made stuff like the rat folders and whatever deals they cut with maybe Chinese makers to make whatever models they want. I'd be very surprised if we saw any of the fixed blades made by someone in America, but anything is possible I guess........
 
If they were going to keep the name, you’d think they would also keep the website with that name? There may be reasons they couldn’t do that, IDK. It’s getting harder to be optimistic.
 
Blue Sky said:
If they were going to keep the name, you’d think they would also keep the website with that name? There may be reasons they couldn’t do that, IDK. It’s getting harder to be optimistic.
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Their name was damaged goods at the end. They were changing product specs without advising the market, and only supplying the traditional blades on military contracts. The last few series simply indicated carbon steel (instead of 1095) and were probably 1070.

They had good products but much of it was gone before the company was finally
liquidated.

N2s
 
It was mostly the lazy sellers that didn't update the specs on their sites.

BRK is the ENRON of the knife world it seems.
 
Nice! I looked around the website but didn’t try to buy anything to see if they were selling any inventory
 
Muck7898 said:
Nice! I looked around the website but didn’t try to buy anything to see if they were selling any inventory
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everything says sold out right now. all the fixed blades except old hickory and some machetes are gone.....
 
I just found out about this when I planned to buy something from their spec plus line and discovered everything out of stock. Total bummer! OKC was always one of my favorite modern day knife companies, a sort of rival to KA-BAR with the same steel and builds but better prices and cooler designs. I hope to see models like the SP5 and old hickory knives live on.
 
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