The Shactory is in Phoenix, AZ and is a factory full of craftsmen. This is not a warehouse where we inventory goods that are shipped in from China and then forwarded to you. We get our steel from Niagra Specialty Metals (an employee owned company) in New York, our Fixed Blade steels come from Germany through our friendship with the KaBar knife company in New York as well. We design, engineer, blank, heat treat, grind, finish, machine, assemble, tune, package and ship every knife we make. The craftsmen here are second to none and make $1500 knives right next to $175 knives. The same care, attention to detail and yes…LOVE for this art, is put into every creation that makes it out our doors. Dozens of state-of-the-art machines fill our near 30,000sq/ft facility, vertical and horizontal mills, multiple production tumblers, air and water filtration equipment, water jet, surface grinders, and Berger Taper grinders, heat treat ovens, wire EDM’s, a fleet of Burr King grinders and too many other things to itemize. It looks like a factory but has the talent of a hand-making shop, so we call it the Shactory…
Read More“American Made” is a thing. It’s been our core for many years and we live and die by this American Made obsession. Main Street Knife is an answer to an honest question, “why can’t you make an affordable American Made knife?” The answer is, “we can…sort of…” As we conceived of a brand with global appeal and price we had to look at what we do best and how to serve the customer best. We have never before balanced these competing forces and wants in the marketplace. That being said, we have chosen to make the blades and critical steel, titanium and various sundry critical parts here in our factory. The G-10 handles are being sourced from Europe and Asia (NOT CHINA) and we see this compromise in “Country of Origin” as worth the value proposition it brings to YOU the customer. For military and Government purchasers who need Barry Amendment compliance, please call for special pricing. For those of you who have a hard “American Made” only ethos see medfordknife.com for a plethora of options. Just know we are not xenophobic but rather “good global citizen” centric. We believe the compromise serves the customer ultimately with best quality on the serious stuff and only engages foreign sourcing on the least critical and most messy, labor intensive cost saving components.
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