It looks like they even source a lot of their blade and handle materials from the states. Fortunately all those brands come out of the same factory, and the company is pretty generous about showing their operation. They offer tours through their facility, and it’s pretty easy to find videos and content about what all they’re doing in there. Emerson name gets around a lot these days, especially under the Kershaw brand. The Emerson CQC-7 broke the wave on folding tactical knives, and the Emerson factory has kept up a good pace of designing since then. They launched themselves with a Kickstarter back in 2010 with the HEST, designed by founder Robert Young Pelton.
So, I went with 60 Rc and that seemed to fix the tip breakage. I retired in Aug 2009 from working on saws in sawmills and now at 80 years old am close to being a retired knifemaker. In 1990 I initiated my membership into the Knifemakers Guild. After five years, even though the Guild is a very prestigious and wonderful organization, I made the tough decision to end my membership since it just wasn't being cost effective for me. I moved from central Oregon to California in 1988 to a higher paying sawmill job and a warmer climate, then began to participate in California knife shows.
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I have met few that use a knife like I do and fiddleback is my choice. And I have tried nearly all big name knife companies. As well as collector quality Damascus pieces, Highlands Forge makes a variety of field tested hunting, skinning, camp & Bowie knives in mono steels at very affordable prices.
I expect they’ll be expanding both their overseas and in-house manufacturing down the road based on the success of what they’ve put out so far. The Ka-Bar Becker BK7 quickly established itself as an classic American fixed blade.Ka-Bar has owned Becker Knife & Tool since 2007, when the company that had been manufacturing for them went bankrupt. They’ve been collaborating ever since and I believe knives from both companies share factories. Begg Knives is pretty much all American from what I can tell. They machine a lot of their own parts and hand finish all their knives. They do seem to have a relationship with some overseas factory, but that’s strictly for the high production chef knives being made under the Mattia Borrati name.
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Ka Bar is better than SOG by a large margin, and I like the look of their designs a lot better. I have to give SOG props for their ingenuity though. They make some neat looking stuff, and I have high hopes for new releases from their American made line. Right now, a general rule you can follow is that if a SOG knife is sporting S30V steel, it was put together in their American factories.
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The important stuff is done in Massachusetts, though. Their own journey with importing knives started back in the sixties when it ceased to be a family-owned business. It traded hands between several different corporations that started manufacturing overseas and taking advantage of the Ka-Bar name. It was partially saved from that fate by a few ardent collectors of original Ka-Bar knives, and then completely saved when Cutco purchased it in the 90’s. Since then they’ve pretty much always been manufactured at least in part in the US. Original or not, though, they keep the majority of their manufacturing within the states.
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