The Ka-Bar knife, still Made in the USA
 

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Nice to know a classic still here....

Buck too, Bucko:

"Buck Knives is an American knife manufacturer founded in San Diego, California and now located in Post Falls, Idaho. The company has a long history through five generations of the Buck family from 1902 to the present day. Buck Knives primarily manufactures sport and field knives and is credited with inventing the "folding hunting knife" and popularizing it to such a degree that the term "buck knife" has become synonymous with folding lockback knives, including those made by other manufacturers."

BTW, I called Ka-Bar to see if the ones being sold at WallyWorld for 58 bucks were real or cheap ass knock offs.

They said they were the real deal. Good price....100 plus is what Ka-Bar sells them for on their website.

Check the quality on the ones at wmart. That "store" is infamous for decreasing the quality or quantity or some other functionality of the product they sell. Buyer beware.

Love my Ka-Bar but Wife has stolen it and won't give it back! Have to buy another one... It is VERY useful around the farm. Hard to believe what we have put it through and the fact it is still in one piece.

My K-Bar was destroyed when I was in the desert during Desert Storm. It was a great knife and I will replace it one of these days...

I will have to check... I heard some Bucks are still made in the USA... but they are outsouseing others.

I do love my Buck knife(s)!

Ontario Knife Co still manufactures here as well.

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one to open beers and the mail
one to keep in the truck
one for the cookouts...actually gave this one to my buddy for him to cook for the track gang.
one for the tractor and loping off chicken heads.

Love my Ka-bars.

I think my Cutco adjustable 9" filet is made in the same factory. Awesome blade.

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Just bought this ka-bar 2 months ago. Too bad I am never home to use it. :rolleyes:

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I played with a benchmade 755 BK mbr yesterday. The knife is sick. $250 was too much.

Cutco is good? Or crap?

knives are cool

isn't cutco one of those pyramid scheme kinda companies? I think my brother worked for them and got scammed.

There are definitely still a few companies producing here.... In fact we are now selling screens built in south Dakota, to customers in china. :D

Too funny. One of my nephews some years ago, wet behind the ears and as a first job, sold Cutco... guessing for only a few months. So when he hit me up, sure I had to cave in buy a few knives to boost his confidence. But it turns out, the filet knife is the only one well worth its keep.

Navy Kbar.......
 

I still have my Kbar that was issued to me when I was in the Seabees, complete with grey fiberglass (?) sheath! It came out of a new sealed case that was opened up just for us when we got to Diego Garcia in 1971. Our group was known as "The Landing Party" and was the first group of Seabees to hit the beach! Great knife, would not take any amount of $$$ for it!

No offence intended but I'm not diggin the plastic handles.

The classic Ka-bar with the stacked leather handle is just brilliant. That was always the stand out feature for me.

Why would they change that?

^^^sc_rufctr,
Grips: Agree but if you have a gut knife and trim deer I guess some don't want the stain left on the grip... sanitary reasons.

Speaking more of grips, we have some of the Aussie brand early Furi kitchen blades with a rubbery grip. I wish they made hunting knives. Different but really like them. Not sure whats up with the company trying to make it out like its a German knife as they claim its german steel and yet the knives are asian production. We also use upper end Henckels, both are equal in rigidity but the Furi's do seem to hold their edges longer.

Low-end or upper-end knives, if you want to keep an edge, throw your grinders and steels in the garbage. I've found the best is using a consistent, exact angled jig is far superior. Most of the kitchen blades are 20 degree and the hunting blades are 25 degree.