Shrade was a decent American company that produced decent knives. They had exemplary hiring practises and benefits. SNEARS and WALMART pressured SHRADE to reduce unit cost and/or move to RED CHINA. Shrade is now closed. I suppose someday we can drive our new CHICOM Cherry cars ( marketed soon by the man who brought us the YUGO) down to WALLYWORLD and buy a Shanghai Special eminently superior to that lousy old Shrade in 440. Then we can scrape the FREE TIBET and GREATFULL DEAD bumperstickers off the old Dodge Dart we are restoring out of nostalgia. Lousy hippies have no sense of true American pride.