I have seen knives and multitools with the Winchester brand. Most were made in China, or Malaysia or some such place. However, I have a vintage winchester knife now that is very high quality. The steel is tough, difficult to put an edge on, but once you do, it stays a long time, and after that, all you usually need to do to get it sharp again is run it over a sharpening steel a few times to get the fine edge back in alignment. It took a good while with a diamond impregnated steel hone to get that fine edge on it, but so far it's held it's edge quite well, and once needed the steel. Of course, it doesn't see very hard use, just light duty most of the time. It's too pretty to carry constantly, and use for any and every purpose. I did have one multitool with that brand that also seemed of high quality, but others were junk.
Now, I want to make one thing perfectly clear, the Chinese can and will make very high quality items if the company that imports them wants them high quality, it's to their fault if the company selling them wants cheap, low quality stuff. So if you're ticked about everything being made in China and of low quality, holler at the importers and companies here that order it. They seem to want low quality thinking you'll just buy more. If a store or company burns you, don't do any more business with them, if enough people do that, they might take the hint. At one time, being made in China was a mark of excellence. They only made high quality items. I don't know if any of you remember when being "made in Japan" was about the same as "made in China" is today. Now made in Japan is usually a mark of quality if it's a newer item.
