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A. G. Russell™ Knives

From the age of nine I made homemade knives until I was about twenty four when I began to make handmade knives, crude but no longer homemade. A few years later, I had met and learned from makers like R.W. Loveless and R. L. Dozier. I made knives until the mid 1970s but today seldom make a knife a year. However I do have very talented makers in the United States and Japan who make knives that I am proud to put my name on. I design pocket knives, one hand knives, lockbacks, and fixed blade knives and have them made to our standards.

Al Mar Knives

Since 1979, Al Mar Knives^™ has been committed to making unique designs at quality levels that rival custom, handmade knives. Gary Fadden took charge of the Al Mar knife company. He is focusing on the best selling ultralight designs and is making them in three sizes, all with the linerless micarta handle which I pioneered in the early 1970s.

Bark River

Mike Stewart, owner/manager of the new Bark River Knife and Tool company in Michigan, was the founder and general manager of Blackjack knives until the company closed and then was instrumental in the revival of the Marble's Knife for Marble's Outdoors. Mike left Marble's to establish Bark River.

Beauchamp, Gaetan

Gaetan Beauchamp is a Canadian knifemaker who not only has a talent for making knives, but for scrimshanding as well. He is a full time maker who sold his first knife in 1992.

Benchmade Knife Company

Benchmade Knife Company manufactures knives for a loyal and ever growing following of knife users. They employ a simple philosophy - "Make it cool, make it solid, make it happen, and definitely make it Benchmade."

Beukes, Tinus

Thirteen years ago Tinus, a teacher of Afrikaans and other subjects at an English School in South Africa, had never seen a handmade knife. His world changed when a friend showed him a knife that the friend had made. Tinus describes it as being rough indeed, but it inspired him to attempt his own. His knives improved for several years, but it was not until Tinus began selling outside South Africa that knifemaking became profitable.

Blade-Tech

Boker®

After the loss of Bertram GMBH and the end of the Henkels made pocket knife, the very old Boker "Tree Works" is the leading pocket knife maker in Europe. Always very good, they now lead the rest, and are one of the few established firms who are willing to try new ideas.

Browning

The Liberty Tree knife is the first in a series of six knives honoring American people, events or locations of historical significance. Five more have been planned honoring the following: The Alamo, Robert E. Lee, Dwight Eisenhower, the Vietnam War and Crazy Horse. Each knife is developed by Browning and American Forests when wood becomes available from a tree that witnessed the event.

Buck® Knives

Buck® Knives went from hand made in a Southern California Garage to a factory knife, about the same time we began the A. G. Russell^™ Knife Mail Order Business. Over the past thirty some years Buck has become one of the largest and most important knife companies in the world.

Camillus® Cutlery Company

Camillus® Cutlery Company is one of the oldest knife manufacturers in the United States. Ever since the company's inception, Camillus has been dedicated to producing the finest knives available. Regardless of whether or not you have used or owned a Camillus product, anyone who is into knife collecting certainly is aware of this company and their products.

Canal Street Cutlery

Canal Street Cutlery is rising like a Phoenix from the ashes of Schrade Cutlery. With skills and knowledge from hundreds of combined years in the cutlery industry, this handful of dedicated and talented men are abandoning the names and cross of the 100 year old Schrade firm like a Cicada leaves its skin.

Taking the street name that fronts a 100 plus year old knife factory, they are blending the old and the new. They have all the cutlery skills of the 19th and 20th centuries and access to all of the state-of-the-art equipment of the 21st.

CAS Hanwei

CAS Hanwei distributes some of the highest quality historical reproductions available. The knives they supply are in great demand by collectors. Holding one of these knives is like holding a piece of history in your hands.

Case®

Finally, the W. R. Case Knife Company seems to be in good hands. The family that has guided the Zippo lighter company through so many successful years has begun to make a difference at their new knife company. They have called back from retirement, skilled craftsmen who are teaching the current crop of cutler's. These new knives look more like those of the 1950's rather than those of the 1970's and 1980's.

Columbia River Knife and Tool

CRKT builds serious knives, engineered to perform on the job or in the field, year in and year out. They are practical, purpose driven designs created by some of the most innovative Knifemakers' Guild members and creative designers. The result is that the finest knife designs are now available to you for daily use at an affordable price.

Custom Shoppe

D.H. Russell

In the late 1950's, D.H. Russell, owner of a cutlery store in Toronto, designed The Original Canadian Belt Knife. Demand for this new design was so great that he brought an experienced cutler from Czechoslovakia to make the knives. Rudolf Grohmann, and his family came to Canada, founded Grohmann Knives, of Pictou, Nova Scotia, and have produced all of the D.H. Russell Belt Knives from the beginning.

Dozier Knives

Bob Dozier has been a big name in handmade knives since the 1960's. He is an expert in making knives with state of the art fit and finish at a cost of several hundred dollars each. What he really prefers, though, is making knives like you see here with the very best materials, fitted perfectly, and with a working finish. This allows him to put the knives in your hands at prices that a working man can afford.