Who's Making Those New Winchesters???

[jerryd6818]

I was looking for something else on SMKW and decided to check out the Winchesters. I had it in my mind that all the new Winchesters were made in the Far East and are selling for around 20 bucks.



Who makes these?

Not an advertisement for SMKW. Just three examples of what I'm talking about.

Winchester® Cartridge Series 3-Blade Spline Back Whittler with Dark Brown Jigged Bone Handle $117.99
http://www.smkw.com/webapp/eCommerce/pr ... 122DB.html

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Winchester® Cartridge Series Reverse Gunstock with Stag Handle $199.99
http://www.smkw.com/webapp/eCommerce/pr ... 5126S.html

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Winchester® 2-Blade Doctor's Knife with Genuine Stag Handle $161.99
http://www.smkw.com/webapp/eCommerce/pr ... 5082S.html

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[JWS]

Not sure Jerryd but the gunstock reminds me of a S&M \ Queen with the double pulls. SMKW seems to be doing alot of SFO lines with them nowdays.
Just my 2.3 cents.

[knifeaholic]

I'm curious about this as well. They certainly look like Queen made knives, and Queen did make the Winchester reproductions for many years. So maybe they are still making the high end Winchesters for Bluegrass Cutlery. On the other hand, someone told me that Bluegrass Cutlery now has their own in-house knife manufacturing. I have no proof of the truth of that claim.

[chetr1200c]

certainly looks like queens. smkw and queen do a lot of business together.

[deanmm56]

While this isn't a whole lot of help ... I took this directly from BGC website :

Presenting... A special edition to the Trademark knives.

This knife features:
• 3 1/2" 3 blade Whittler pattern
• Bone handle
• Nickel silver bolsters and highest quality carbon steel blades
• Original tang stamp
• All knives have the pattern number and year of manufacture stamped on the tang of each master blade
• Individually boxed in attractive boxes
• Manufactured from quality materials in the U.S.A.

[chautauqua]

i stated in a earlier post that during the queen factory tour i seen two stag handled patterns of winchesters sitting on a file cabinet upstairs in the room which they fit handles and shields the stockman that is pictured and a swinguard pattern,i asked the employee who was giving the tour if that is being currently produced and she said she didnt have authority to comment

[chetr1200c]

hey chau,, the same thing happened with me, only it was a northwoods stag on the repair table.. i asked if they were making northwoods now, and the dude said it was not publicly known and couldn't say any more..

[Elvis]

Folding Winchesters are from Blugrass Cutlery (and still made by Queen) and the Winchester fixed blades have been coming out of China for several years now. I THINK Bluegrass is set up for assembly (not yet ready to manufacture from my source who lives near there).

[chetr1200c]

i know queen made the reproductions for blue grass in the 80s and early 90s, but i thought they got away from winchesters for the rest of 1900 and into most of 2000