All About Pocket Knives

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I've been under the impression that Robert Klaas has been out of business for several years


You got me thinking about this now. I did some looking around, and heres what I found-
Klaas is still around, still sells Kissing Cranes brand knives etc, still has an address in Solingen and maintains a website. However, has anyone ever wondered why these German knives can be sold so cheap? I did. It seems that lately all is not as it seems in der Vaterland.

In poking about, I found a disturbing trend in reports that many knives marked Solingen Germany, including many sold by Klaas, Boker and others are not really made there, but outsourced to Italy, China and other places where making such things is dirt cheap. One report included an account of someone who had actually seen blades being stamped "Solingen Germay" in a Chinese factory. Fury in Maniago Italy is one maker thats specifically mentioned as the origin of some of the Kissing Cranes line. I guess that it really doesn't matter where its actually made, as long as the company keeps a "store front" as it were in Solingen then the knives can be marked as such despite what the laws say both in Germany and the US. So, next time you buy a German made knife, you got to wonder if its really what it seems to be.