Yes, I think we realize that. But for a product that was made in China and now is made in the USA on a limited basis, and because the company is making a point of it in their advertising, you would think they would mark it - at least on the box.
Sadly there are many loopholes in the system, especially when you own the factory in China, and also the distribution center in USA.
Maybe, seems odd to me that they would announce the knife is USA made on their YT channel especially since they happily sell imported knives under the same brand.
The quality appears to be OK. I am not going to test it because my collection is mainly not for use. It's a pocket knife, so I wouldn't probably do any batoning with it or any other heavy use. I would say that about my Case knives too. To be honest, the main reason why I bought it is because I collected red jigged bone knives. I don't really want to load up on non-USA knives but I do have a few Rough Ryders (China) and Bokers(Germany). It is 95% Case right now. I thought adding a USA-made Queen would be nice, especially since Case doesn't offer that many big knives. If SMKW starts to do more Queen USA-made patterns, I hope they put USA somewhere on the knife and/or box. It would be cool if they did the patterns you don't usually see on Case knives.
You might be thinking of different knives, pretty sure these two "USA" queen trappers are new as of a few days ago.
Well, they have now. The brown bone version that was made in China a couple days ago is now made in the USA......
Eh, it's a distributor with a lot of products they sell. They probably just copied the china made Queen knives to fill out the description and forgot to fix a couple of things. It certainly wouldn't be that crazy, and I think it probably makes more sense than them purposely being dishonest when they are so open about all the other knife brands they own being Chinese made.Well, they have now. The brown bone version that was made in China a couple days ago is now made in the USA......
How in the world did you manage that?It wouldn't be a first. You tell me.
What? Snagging both of them that cheap? An eBay seller I watch posts 10 knife lots almost every week, and I check them out every week. I've snagged a lot of old Queens on the cheap that way.
It wouldn't be a first. You tell me.
Those look a lot like what we're talking about...now I am even more confused and more doubtful about their claims...It wouldn't be a first. You tell me.
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I think he means purchasing two knives on eBay in February that are supposed to have just come out this month and are exclusive (I think?) to one dealer.
I'm thinking Bear and Son as well.
When I said "copied the Chinese queen knives" I meant they just copied the description from the Chinese knives, not the knives themselves. That would explain the discrepancies in the description of the knives. Then a few days later they fixed it.Perhaps the higher prices Cooper was charging wasn't a great hit with the knife buying public, hence reduced prices?
Could be Bear yes, but it all seems a bit obscure and I really don't buy the idea that inexpensive Chinese 'Queen' knives would be imported and then copied in the US - at great cost- then forget to fix a few things...??
