Thread: R.I.P. Bagmaster

Originally Posted by Leatherstockiings

Duluth Pack and Frost River make canvas and leather cases for firearms. I think all of the canvas items sold by each company are made in the U.S. They are kind of pricey, especially the all leather cases.

Ah yes, Duluth Pack. They're made a few miles from where I work. Popular stuff.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

This is a shame. It seems that sooner than later everything we buy will be from China, or some other Asian country where wages are low, job conditions are poor, and the entrepreneur charges the consumer the same $ as the USA made product would have cost, or nearly so. Largely due to the politicians of both parties selling the American worker down the river. Pretty soon flipping burgers or clerking at walmart or home depot will be about the only career choices for the majority of Americans.

Jimmy:

All we need to do is live another hundred years or so (possibly less). By that time China and the other cheap labor countries will have risen to global middle class status with the U.S. falling to poverty level and our progeny being forced to work until they drop just to eat. Made In China today = low priced low quality crap. Made in USA in a few generations = low priced low quality crap? I certainly hope not, but it seems that's where we're headed.

I like to think of myself as not being materialistic. I try to minimize buying stuff unless I really need it. I buy made in USA whenever I can. Diamond Gusset jeans, for example. I bought a Filson double mackinaw coat about fifteen years ago (long before Filson started catering to the hipster and lumbersexual crowd). Quality costs more. To me it's worth it.

Part of it for me with China is that I was raised in an age when communist governments were considered the enemy and blindly thinking that the China of today isn't just as bent on taking over the world as it was back in the day would have been regarded back then as simple minded, naive and clueless. I regard my level of continued mistrust of communist governments as part of being patriotic. I'm very proud of it and very proud of freedom. As such, like you, I cringe and get a sick feeling on the occasions when sadly I feel I don't have a choice but to buy particular items.......made in China.

ChrisL

"Lumbersexual" definitely is a new one for me!

Originally Posted by Utopian

"Lumbersexual" definitely is a new one for me!

It is a guy ...... or gal ...... (is there a difference anymore ?) who is attracted sexually to wood. Trees, sheets of plywood. Many facets of the condition. They really are not adequately represented in the USA. As far as equal rights goes I mean ......

Originally Posted by Utopian

"Lumbersexual" definitely is a new one for me!

I didn't coin the term. It's a more rugged turn on the male "metrosexual". A lumbersexual is an otherwise emasculated man who sports as much facial hair as he can muster, lives in an urban setting but dresses as though he works in the woods, that kind of thing.

ChrisL

Originally Posted by ChrisL

Jimmy:

All we need to do is live another hundred years or so (possibly less). By that time China and the other cheap labor countries will have risen to global middle class status with the U.S. falling to poverty level and our progeny being forced to work until they drop just to eat. Made In China today = low priced low quality crap. Made in USA in a few generations = low priced low quality crap? I certainly hope not, but it seems that's where we're headed.

I like to think of myself as not being materialistic. I try to minimize buying stuff unless I really need it. I buy made in USA whenever I can. Diamond Gusset jeans, for example. I bought a Filson double mackinaw coat about fifteen years ago (long before Filson started catering to the hipster and lumbersexual crowd). Quality costs more. To me it's worth it.

Part of it for me with China is that I was raised in an age when communist governments were considered the enemy and blindly thinking that the China of today isn't just as bent on taking over the world as it was back in the day would have been regarded back then as simple minded, naive and clueless. I regard my level of continued mistrust of communist governments as part of being patriotic. I'm very proud of it and very proud of freedom. As such, like you, I cringe and get a sick feeling on the occasions when sadly I feel I don't have a choice but to buy particular items.......made in China.

ChrisL

Chris I still have my Filson single mackinaw. Gave the double to a good friend when I moved from NJ down to FL in the early '90s. That double keep you warm even in -0 + wind. The 'offshoring' of our manufacturing is probably not as bitter to younger people in this country as it is to those of us who remember 'when'. Long gone.

I wear a Filson Cape coat, plus some of their other fine products. Their wool coats and vests are sturdy garmets. Thank goodness none of my Filson stuff is plaid! I saw one those faux Lumberjacks at a restaurant in the city. I really wanted to ask him what brand of axe he liked best.

OMG !!! Does that mean Paul Bunyan was a Lumbersexual ??

[QUOTE=Hirlau;OMG !!! Does that mean Paul Bunyan was a Lumbersexual?[/QUOTE]

I always wondered what old Blue and Paul did through the winter months..........

If I have it figured out, the so called "lumbersexuals" are a subset of the hipster movement. They wear skinny jeans, boots, plaid flannel shirts, and suspenders along with their beards and man buns.