U.S. made Slip Joints?

I always seem to go full circle back to my preference to Case. For the price you can get a 63032 stockman in CV for $41.00 out of Smokey Mountain and the F/F is equal to or better than Queen IMO for a knife going upwards to $60-80 dollars.
 
Add some new Remingtons to the "made in USA" catagory!

I saw these at my local feed and seed store today, VERY nice green bone and if I had to guess, I'd say made by Bear & Sons.

$34.99 each, and quality seemed really solid, good fit and finish.

Heritage Series
 
navihawk said:
I always seem to go full circle back to my preference to Case. For the price you can get a 63032 stockman in CV for $41.00 out of Smokey Mountain and the F/F is equal to or better than Queen IMO for a knife going upwards to $60-80 dollars.
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For a Queen 4" Stockman in Amber bone you should not be paying more than $65, and you can get it for less.
 
Bear Claw Chris Lappe said:
Add some new Remingtons to the "made in USA" catagory!

I saw these at my local feed and seed store today, VERY nice green bone and if I had to guess, I'd say made by Bear & Sons.

$34.99 each, and quality seemed really solid, good fit and finish.

Heritage Series
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That is good news! No, it's GREAT news! Thanks for that link. I'd like to see them produce some of the old, classic patterns. Like, say the R1123 and R1173. I really hope they do a good job with these knives. I'd hate to see yet another great name dragged down by shoddy workmanship.
 
These are the only actual MANUFACTURERS of traditional slipjoints in the USA, as far as I know:

Case
Queen
Bear & Son
Buck
Utica
Colonial
Great Eastern
Canal Street
Amherst

Northwoods is a question mark...I always assumed that their slipjoints were made by Queen...the tooling looks identical to that used for Queen knives.
 
pappy1959 said:
Amherst Cutlery has discontinued making all production knives. We will be making only handmades now. The response from people has been amazing and we no longer have time to produce any production knives at all.

Only handmades from now on.............................what a relief.

Keep Care,

Pappy
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knifeaholic said:
These are the only actual MANUFACTURERS of traditional slipjoints in the USA, as far as I know:

Case
Queen
Bear & Son
Buck
Utica
Colonial
Great Eastern
Canal Street
Amherst

Northwoods is a question mark...I always assumed that their slipjoints were made by Queen...the tooling looks identical to that used for Queen knives.
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Read the post from Pappy in the knife maker announcements, in the custom knives forum.

TA


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Yup, Todd just beat me too it. Amherst has gone Custom exclusively. Margins are much higher and his rep is good.

All the best of luck to Pappy and the crew.
 
brownshoe said:
Per the owner, Northwoods knives are not "made" by Queen. The owner is very closed lipped about how and where each knife is made. What he has said in more than one place (e.g. Knifeworld and forums) is that each knife can be different as to who assembles and who manufacturers the parts. For some knives, some parts come from Queen but they are assembled at Northwoods. For other knives, he has said that the knife is partially assembled by Queen and handled/finished at Northwoods. Some knives are fully produced in Michigan by Northwoods. That being said, some Northwoods look exactly like the Queens (e.g. toothpicks) except for the premium handle material (e.g. ebony, stag, etc.).
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NW pocket knives are handled by NW directly, then sent off to Queen and built with the Schatt and Morgan finish, then back to Ol'Dave who checks them, boxes them and sells them.

They are top shelf.
 
Of all the lines I am familiar with--I prefer the Canal St. They are exceptionally well done.
 
Canal Street also is just assemble there knives. Queen makes must of thier parts with the exception of D'Holder series. GEC is ran and half own by Bill Howard. Which was the master cutler at Queen. Anything you have seen come out of Queen the last 15 years before GEC started was his design. That also includes all the brands made by them including the Case Classics. I say this only becuase GEC is trying to make the knives excactly the way they were made in the 20's under Mr. Howard. The also are completly independent very few like that.
 
Doesn't Taylor make slipjoint knives in the US?

If you want to get technical, Queen is a subsidiary of Ontario.
 
Antiqueknife, Canal Street has been making all their own stuff for quite some time now, they've got two floors of equipment ranging from huge water cooled grinders that you actually stand in to hammer presses, tempering ovens, etc.. It's quite an operation.

Eric
 
ea42 said:
Antiqueknife, Canal Street has been making all their own stuff for quite some time now, they've got two floors of equipment ranging from huge water cooled grinders that you actually stand in to hammer presses, tempering ovens, etc.. It's quite an operation.

Eric
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I'm sure they do the grinding and much more but they don't own the dies for thier frames. If you look all there frames are another knife companys, mainly Queen.
 
Case still makes the 63032 stockman in CV for around $40.00. You can't go wrong with that price.
 
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