If you can find them the old S&W knives were excellent. Old Browning knives were also top quality but they were all made back in the late 60's early 70's. Most of the Smith's and Browning's were made in Japan or Germany, were 440c (a top steel of yesteryear)and featured nickle silver or brass with well formed cocobolo wood or stag handles and were excellent in fit and finish. Todays Remington and Winchester's are made by Blue Grass or Camilluis, have delrin handles and other then the old designs are standard 440A or it's equivalent ho hum fare. Beretta still does make a superior knife and feature 440C or AUS8 with some in micarta in both folding and fixed blades. With all the effort now toward "tactical knives" in the $100-$200 range I do wish the companies would still put out some of their "old" knives with lots of brass, quality wood,bone or micarta handles in the newer steels. Only the custom Buck 110 (BG42)and Queen (Robsen and Shuredge)pocket folders with REAL jigged bone and ats34 are available that I know of. I miss the days of "manly" knives that included a heavy duty, brown, well oiled sheath in the large folders and fixed blades. These knives filled your hand and were a joy to use and pass around a campfire at the end of the day. Somehow G-10, nylon, delrin, kydex and kraton (all black) just doesn't do it for me. Weldonk