Originally Posted by 12XU
Ah, I thought they were made at Waterford. I guess that's only the slightly more expensive non-custom Rivendells.. I believe Ishiwata isn't even in business anymore.
Waterford used to build the production Rivendell models, but they haven't done that for years now. The "hierarchy", if you will, of Riv frames goes
1) Custom, build by Curt Goodrich
2) Production frames, built by Toyo in Japan
3) Bleriot (less expensive version of the Saluki), built by Maxway, in Taiwan (same factory that builds Kogswell, Surly, (IRO?) and quite a lot of other well-known brands
EDIT: Oops, forgot about Panasonic. That makes 4 separate builders of Riv frames.