You are mostly wrong. They are made in a midwest facility, unless the wheelsmith rep that comes and visits the shop lies to us. Their bladed spokes are not made there though. The blanks are shipped to the US facility and are threaded and worked there.


All this talk of Paul and Cook Brothers is making me feel like I'm 13 again. Both companies were premiere CNC boutique parts houses in the early 90s. Paul used to be an aerospace engineeer.
Thomson parts are made in Georia in a facility that, like Chris King, makes industrial and surgical parts.

I worked at a now defunct bike parts (crux) CNC facility early in highschool. Machining out your own cranks was a matter of loading the program and hitting enter. It was small parts (pulleys, brake levers) that wer a total bithch to make. If you have the money to spend, getting a CNC house to machine out your own custom cranks would be about 4-600 bucks.
Having a friend in school (with access to a CNC machine) to be a mechanical engineer ...now that's priceless. Or if they don't have a CNC, have them design your cranks on computer to load into a machine. You're mostly charged for the time it takes to program the design, actually milling them out takes less than 10 minutes.