I'm also a devotee (but not a collector) of the Lodge brand - the local Fred Meyer seems to have between a 10-20% discount on the entire Lodge line every month or so, and I have been picking up cast iron pieces when they do. My latest is a flat griddle, on which I've been having fun making corn and flour tortillas. I have also bought Made in the USA, because of suspicions of quality control on cast iron from China.

I was at a Cabela's a few months back looking for a dutch oven, and they didn't stock any Lodge - I asked why, and the sales associate said there were some issues with quality from Lodge, so they stopped carrying them. Can anyone confirm recent quality issues with Lodge? 100% of their dutch ovens are made by their US foundry. I prefer to think it was Cabela's possibly going more down-market with their own store-brand offering (which was not made in the USA and looked kinda punk).

Also fwiw my mom still cooks on an old Wagner cast iron, its at least as old as she is, and probably came from an aunt or cousin.