Junior Mints, golf balls, and razors are still manufactured in Mass.

The elevator in the old mill building feels so creaky, you might need to conduct a séance to get in touch with a repairman. When we reach the fifth floor of Vanson Leathers in Fall River, Kim van der Sleesen pulls open the manual doors, and it’s like we have traveled to a different era.

The company she runs with her husband, Mike, marked its 50th birthday this year. It’s located in a former textile mill built in the late 19th century, and its workers are busy doing something you don’t see much anymore: cutting and stitching leather jackets, gloves, and pants. One of the sewing machines was made when Roosevelt was president. Theodore Roosevelt.

“We’ve had to reinvent what we do,” Mike van der Sleesen says. Where custom-made and small-production-run products once represented about five percent of Vanson’s business, they’re now about 45 percent, he says. And while the company originally made its name with products for motorcyclists, it has been branching out into more fashion-driven merchandise, collaborating with brands like Supreme and Comme des Garçons.

No one would argue that we’re living through a golden age of manufacturing in Massachusetts. And you don’t even need to ask a question to get manufacturing executives talking about the undertow that tugs at these businesses: high energy and housing costs, the challenges of finding skilled tradespeople, and foreign competition and knockoffs.

But you might be surprised what actually gets made here these days. It’s still quite a bit, though it tends to be niche products, from $195 leather iPad cases to the cymbals on Ringo Starr’s drumset. Below is a list of 19 other things, in addition to Vanson’s leather jackets, that are still being made in the state.

Could you start another company like Vanson in Massachusetts today? Van der Sleesen doubts it — for many of the reasons above and also that “so much of the support industry for manufacturing has disappeared.”

Vanson now employs about 40 workers, down from a peak of 165 in the early 2000s. Since then, consumers have gotten more price sensitive, van der Sleesen says, and more Chinese-made products have flooded the US market. (Vanson’s least expensive leather jackets sell for about $600.)

So let’s appreciate what we’ve got.

Family-owned Randolph Engineering has sold aviator-style sunglasses to the military for more than four decades; it also makes models for consumers. Jan Waszkiewicz, who served on bombers in the Royal Air Force during World War II, cofounded the company in 1973. His son Peter now runs it, and the third generation is also involved in the business. Randolph employs 80 workers, according to chief operating officer Sarah Dacko, and one of the company’s best-selling products, the Military Special Edition aviators, sells for $399.

Every Junior Mint candy is made in a Tootsie Roll Industries factory on the edge of Kendall Square. It’s the last survivor of more than 66 candy factories that were once sprinkled around the city of Cambridge.

The Acushnet Company makes more than 600,000 golf balls every day at two production facilities in the New Bedford Business Park. The brand stamped on each one? Titleist. Director of communications Joe Gomes says the Massachusetts-made Titleist Pro V1 and V1x are “the best-selling and most played golf balls in the world.”

Nearby, in Fall River, John Matouk & Co. produces the kind of high-end linens and loungewear that you’ll see featured in the pages of Town & Country or Martha Stewart Living. A single flat sheet for a queen bed will set you back $549; more affordable is the Milagro robe, at $165.

One of the oldest companies in the world, Zildjian, marked its 400th birthday last year. Originally founded in Turkey, the company cranks out more than 500 different models of cymbals at its factory in Norwell — and each one of them gets tested by a quality controller who hits the metal with a drumstick and listens for imperfections.

Massachusetts is also home to two companies that make flutes and piccolos: Verne Q Powell in Maynard and Burkart Flutes and Piccolos in Shirley.

In Charlestown, Boston Boat Works launches about a dozen luxury carbon fiber boats each year; Cape Cod Ship Building makes sailboats in Wareham, including some based on designs by the legendary naval architect Nathanael Herreshoff.

In Medfield, the Electric Time Co. makes and repairs ornate analog clocks that you might find at the Forest Hills T stop, Tiffany’s flagship store on Fifth Avenue, the former Filene’s building in Downtown Crossing, or a train station in Bangkok. Thomas Erb, the company’s president, says that the company even has a wall clock at McMurdo Station in Antarctica.

About 80 percent of what GE Aerospace builds at its Lynn facility are jet engines for the military, according to communications specialist Alexis Kievning. But if you’ve flown on a regional jet made by Embraer or Bombardier, odds are good you’ve been lifted into the sky by engines made in Massachusetts. Also made in Lynn? Peanut butter’s best buddy, Marshmallow Fluff.

In Worcester, the David Clark Company makes chunky, over-the-ear headsets for pilots, air traffic controllers, and other workers who need to communicate clearly in noisy environments. (David Clark also made the space suits worn by astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore on their trip to the International Space Station this year.) Worcester is also home to Polar Beverages, making seltzer, soda, and other bottled beverages since 1882.

Alden Shoes in Middleborough was founded just two years later. A pair of gray suede boots from the company’s online store cost $648. A belt sells for $196. New Balance has two footwear factories, in Lawrence and Methuen; among the products it makes here is its 990 model sneaker. The Methuen factory was opened in 2022.

Whenever you buy a product from Amazon, it’s likely carried through a warehouse by a robot made by Amazon Robotics, on its way to the cardboard box that arrives on your doorstep. “We have the world’s largest fleet of industrial mobile robots,” says Amazon executive Tye Brady. And all of them are built at facilities in Westborough and North Reading.

At the “world shaving headquarters” facility in South Boston, Gillette develops many of its new products, so what’s coming off the manufacturing line is always changing. But these days, one product being made there is a $20 disposable razor with five blades, an exfoliating bar to “remove unseen dirt and debris,” and a magnetic razor stand.

What other Massachusetts-made products should be on this list? I know there are lots more. Post a comment or drop me an email.

Scott Kirsner can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him @ScottKirsner.