Queen Cutlery Company Closes

I will be curious to see what they do but definitely gives promise and hope for some more options in the traditional knife market.
 
Rookie82 said:
Well, a little bird says that Bluegrass Cutlery out of Southern Ohio was able to buy nearly all machines/equipment/inventory from the Queen bankruptcy auction, and also acquired the S&M trademark, and that the factory should be up and running, making traditional knives again very soon. The first release S&M knives should be available in 2020 some time. I think this is great and exciting! The historic US company is still US located, and the old machines will be churning out knives once again!
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Exciting news!

,,,Mike in Canada
 
IIRC Bluegrass made many of the nicer Winchester, or was it Remmington, knives though I think I had heard they also contracted out some of those to places like Queen so my knowledge is a bit fuzzy I am sure someone else knows more.
 
Poking around online a little it sounds like in the past they have been just a retailer/wholesaler.

They bought the machines, but do they have people that know how to use them to make knives?
 
That is GREAT news indeed !! :thumbsup: This is the best scenario I could wish for with the Queen name. :cool:
Thanks for making my day!!! :D;):)

Dave
 
I've been told in the past that Bluegrass Cutlery used Queen as their contractor, but I don't know jack :)
 
In another forum Gil Cooper, a representative of Bluegrass, gave a lot more details to the story. He is the one spearheading the project for Bluegrass to take on the S&M name. In the past, Bluegrass had a small section of knife assembly, but the bulk of their knives were contracted out (to places like Queen). Now they will do all operations in house, for S&M, Winchester, Primble, and possible others. No mention yet of the Queen Cutlery name being used. He is eager to keep a historic US cutlery company operating in the US. At a knife show in Kentucky recently, a man I spoke with said that the old master cutler from Queen may be providing some assistance to get the machines running correctly.
 
Rookie82 said:
Well, a little bird says that Bluegrass Cutlery out of Southern Ohio was able to buy nearly all machines/equipment/inventory from the Queen bankruptcy auction, and also acquired the S&M trademark, and that the factory should be up and running, making traditional knives again very soon. The first release S&M knives should be available in 2020 some time. I think this is great and exciting! The historic US company is still US located, and the old machines will be churning out knives once again!
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I'm hoping this will be a positive venture for all of us, manufacturer and consumer alike. :cool::thumbsup:
 
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