On the mid-week supplemental episode of The Knife Junkie podcast (episode 283), Bob "The Knife Junkie" DeMarco looks at the the best USA made knife companies. Be sure to check out the show notes at https://www.theknifejunkie.com/283 for the list of knives talked about on this episode.

Bob starts the show with his "pocket check" of knives -- a Strider SMF and the Stroup Knives TU2 -- while in Knife Life News, Tactile Knife Company's Bexar is voted the best non-locking folder in the annual Knife News readers survey.

And in his "State of the Collection," Bob looks at other large folders in his collection besides Cold Steel -- "oldies but goodies" including the Bastinelli Big Dragotac and the Boker Kalishnikov LG.

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