Smith &Wesson Knives

Taylor Cutlery doesn't make anything. He is a reseller who buys up respected brands to put on knives he has made for him. Most of the knives he sells are made in China but some are made in Taiwan.
 
Junk steel mostly. I had a S&W that claimed to be 440C - it clearly was not, or so poorly heat treated that it acted like something else. I cannot recommend them.
 
udtjim said:
Anyone know who makes the S&W knives? I see most are stamped Taiwan.
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Whoever Taylor can contract to make them the cheapest.

They run the gamut from a few that are "not bad for the money" to "HEY!, the blade fell off" :D
 
Cougar Allen said:
Taylor Cutlery doesn't make anything. He is a reseller who buys up respected brands to put on knives he has made for him. Most of the knives he sells are made in China but some are made in Taiwan.
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Of course he is more of a distributer but most knife companies are to some extent nowdays.
 
Some guy in Taiwan that started a fire and found a peice of steel to turn red and call it heat treated...........
 
It is heat treated. Heat treated crap. No matter how much you dress up a pile of crap it is still a pile of crap or maybe a heat treated pile of crap.
 
I have a few real old ones that appear to be pretty good knives. I have some of their newer folders that are great to loan out or abuse in the garden or Garage. I have one I carry when I am afraid I might loose a knife. It works, I have never lost that one.:D
 
You guys are full of crap.

More and more it is the case that there is nothing overtly wrong with Chineese knives. Making knives isn't rocket science - but China is one of the very few countries that is advanced in this area. It's mainly CAD and CAM.

Virtually all of the major brands now do some manufacturing in China.
There are only a handful of major factories in China (and around the world for that matter) and they produce all the different brands we see. It's quite possible that a more recognized brand like Benchmade has knives made in the same factory that produces M-Tech.

Taylor Cutlery has been around for a long time - probably longer than you guys have been alive. I'm sure they are capable of providing adequate instruction to the technicians in China - and probably know a little more about making a knife than you.

Yes, at this time in our history quality knives can be had very inexpensively.
Knives like the Kershaw Outcast and Ka-bar heavy Bowies are proof of that.

As far as I'm concerned you can be as elitest as you please - I've been there and it's difficult for me to accept less than a certain perceived level of quality. There are probably quite a few people here however who own a S&W or similar knife and can testify that indeed you get your moneys worth.
 
Averageguy--you are right that China can produce good stuff--just that they usually don't. There is no comparison between the average knife from China and the average US knife. Even with the same specs, the US knives are better--hands down.

Actually, I don't mean to be US only...there are lots of good ones out there from other countries, but in general, China is not one of them.
 
"There is no comparison between the average knife from China and the average US knife. Even with the same specs, the US knives are better--hands down."

That's just straight-up bull****.

A correctly manufactured item from China is no different than that same item correctly manufactured in any other part of the world.
 
I have found their traditional knives to be better quality than their tacticals.
 
I'm sure they are capable of providing adequate instruction to the technicians in China
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Hahhahahahha
I always thought the same thing
I guess people think the Chinese can't follow instructions like Americans
The funny part is American workers are lazy, on drugs, hungover, litigous, chronically calling in "sick", surfing the porn0 sites at work, checking their email 30 times a day, checking their Final Four picks,etc
The outsourcing of products is just a blip in the whole macroeconomic scheme
Yet.....Billy Bob's factory gets shut down and people think it's the end of the world

I have a few China made S and W knives
You get what you pay for
(I haven't done any of cutting tests however
Those seem pretty vague anyways
Isn't there a way to MEASURE the resistance of a knife to cardboard?
Like "Pounds Per Square Inch"???
All the tests i have seen===>"It still cuts really, really well after 30 slices on cardboard")
They are acceptable for the PRICE
And they look cool too
I don't spend a whole lot on knives
I save my big buck "weapons" purchases for firearms
If someone wants to spend 900 bucks for a jogging knife...more power to them
 
My Chinese-made Spyderco Byrd Meadowlark outcuts anything under $75 (I paid $25 shipped) Doesn't mean I'm for slave-labor nor organ harvesting, mind you. It just means that China can make a good knife.
 
I have one of their knives and I would say for the price it's a fine knife. Think I only paid around 30 dollars for it, but it's not really in my opinion a great knife though for most things it works just fine!!
 
I've got a S&W Homeland Defense I found for under $20 at Big 5 Sporting Goods. It's definitely worth what I paid.
 
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