Queen Cutlery announced this week that they were closing for reorganization.
http://www.queencutlery.com/2017_Catalog.php
http://www.queencutlery.com/2017_Catalog.php
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The Final Queen Cutlery Catalog?
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I hope they can come back. I have a number of Queen folding knives, regardless of vintage, they are all good:
I probably ruined any collector value by sharpening the thing.
This is a real old one, the black spot is the celluloid handle spontaneously deteriorating.
I flip-flopped between carrying the smaller #9, or the larger 4.25" #49 Stockman. Both had D2 blades, and honeybone handles.I like the honeybone color.
The fit and finish and materials were always first rate. I am seldom impressed with factory edges, but with a 20 minute session on diamond stones and water stones, all of these Queen knives become extremely sharp. Queen knives were hard to find until the internet. Now it seems, they will be hard to find again. Shame.
I probably ruined any collector value by sharpening the thing.
This is a real old one, the black spot is the celluloid handle spontaneously deteriorating.
I flip-flopped between carrying the smaller #9, or the larger 4.25" #49 Stockman. Both had D2 blades, and honeybone handles.I like the honeybone color.
The fit and finish and materials were always first rate. I am seldom impressed with factory edges, but with a 20 minute session on diamond stones and water stones, all of these Queen knives become extremely sharp. Queen knives were hard to find until the internet. Now it seems, they will be hard to find again. Shame.
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My guess is that the brand name will be sold off. Hopefully, a manufacturer who appreciates the quality Queen puts out will do them justice. I'm sure they would be manufactured in China, but this isn't 10 years ago. Chinese knives don't mean doomed quality as manufacturing processes have upticked to incredible levels.
I picked up a Boker Tech Plus, and if it hadn't come with a Made In China sticker on the box, I would have sworn it was German-made.
I digress as this is just speculation on my part. I do hope Queen continues in some form as a quality knife.
I have one Queen in my collection. It's a mini toothpick manufactured for Winchester knives first 1000 piece run back in the late 90s. My dad bought for me as a gift when I was a senior in high school. I lost it in my girlfriends car somehow. It didn't show up until she cleaned it out to sell it some two years later.
Luckily for me, we were still dating (even ended up marrying her
), so I got it back with only a little rust on the bolster. I cleaned it up and have been carrying it off and on for almost 20 years. The etching it gone, the tip has gotten rounded some from use and sharpening. Its been a great gift, and I think it'll probably hold up to another 30 or 40 years of use.
The Queen is dead. Long live the Queen...I hope.
I picked up a Boker Tech Plus, and if it hadn't come with a Made In China sticker on the box, I would have sworn it was German-made.
I digress as this is just speculation on my part. I do hope Queen continues in some form as a quality knife.
I have one Queen in my collection. It's a mini toothpick manufactured for Winchester knives first 1000 piece run back in the late 90s. My dad bought for me as a gift when I was a senior in high school. I lost it in my girlfriends car somehow. It didn't show up until she cleaned it out to sell it some two years later.
Luckily for me, we were still dating (even ended up marrying her
), so I got it back with only a little rust on the bolster. I cleaned it up and have been carrying it off and on for almost 20 years. The etching it gone, the tip has gotten rounded some from use and sharpening. Its been a great gift, and I think it'll probably hold up to another 30 or 40 years of use.The Queen is dead. Long live the Queen...I hope.
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There are two interested parties in buying Queen so we can hope that it can be salvaged after a previous leader of the company had misdirected funds and knives driving it into the "cash flow crisis" it succumbed to.
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The first knife I ever bought was a Queen. I have bought a few of their D2 folders as gifts over the years and the knife I use to skin deer is a Queen. I'm hopeful they will come out the other side still an American company. With the demise of Camillus and Schrade we have already lost too many good companies.
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