About
We’re glad you found us and welcome to the Country Roads Knife Company.
We’re glad you found us and welcome to the Country Roads Knife Company. We’re a family owned and operated company located in the great state of West Virginia.
Each of our Collector and Outdoor series knives are built one at a time. Because we are conscious to our environment, we purchase Green Energy for our knife building and try to work with vendors that also implement good environmental practices. It’s sometimes challenging to find good vendors that practice the same however their products usually comes with higher quality and our customers don’t mind a couple extra bucks when it comes to good environmental manufacturing.
The next thing you know, a couple decades have gone by the wayside and then one evening while enjoying a few more of those beers and hanging a few deer someone says, “why didn’t we ever think about selling these knifes”. The rest is history and a couple of us still blame that comment on the beer.
Starting our knife company wasn’t as difficult as getting through that whole family competition thing and trying to assign “Business Titles” or “Associate of the Month” parking spot. Then Great God Almighty, should you have a square meeting table with one end that could be considered the director’s seat. Thus, we eliminate any parking lines assigned one title called “Family Associate” and purchased a round table.
We only build fix blade Full Tangs and Rat Tail Tangs Hunting, Fishing and Camping Knives. We build our blades out of high carbon 1095 High Carbon, Stainless, D2/D3 Tool Steel and multi-Layer Damascus and at lengths of 6 to 13 inches. We also register our knives in house with a serial number and a name associated with the Wild and Wonderful State of West Virginia. A considerable amount of time, effort and dedication goes into building your knife that we shipped with the following features:
Custom Hand Made Hunting & Fishing Knives in West Virginia
Our knifes or separated into two groups know as Collector Series and Outdoor Series however there is very little that separates the two of them. We focus on building knifes that you hand down from generation to generation and use along the way. Any knife that leaves our facility is built with the same quality and craftsmanship and undergo the same inspections and certification process.
If the truth be known, the primary difference between these two Series is that our collector series were the first and original designs we developed. The Collector Series had 6 initial designs that were built in the late 90’s through the early 2000’s. Our latest and biggest engineered changes were brought about around 2014-2019 when we switched them over to Damacus Steel for a higher HRC between 58-62. Our latest decision came about when we limited all collector knives to a production of 1,200 each and we’ll let the next Generation develop their collector designs.
Our Collector can only be ordered with either a handmade Cherry or Black Walnut that came off our property. Jim developed a multi wood laminate handle that has both our cherry and walnut which is absolutely unique and beautiful. This handle is more labor intensive and is a special order that comes with an additional cost. With a laminate handle you can order the outside wood you want on the knife handle. No two of our knife handles are the same simply because they are a freehanded build.
Our Collector can only be ordered with either a handmade Cherry or Black Walnut that came off our property. Jim developed a multi wood laminate handle that has both our cherry and walnut which is absolutely unique and beautiful. This handle is more labor intensive and is a special order that comes with an additional cost. With a laminate handle you can order the outside wood you want on the knife handle. No two of our knife handles are the same simply because they are a freehanded build.