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Landon Selby

Landon Selby, the expert craftsman who has made our obsidian knives for years, uses the same materials and the same techniques to create the two models we offer in this catalog. Each Obsidian knife is handmade and will vary in size, shape and color. While the blades are sharp enough to skin a deer, we do not recommend their use as a tool. They are fragile.

Saji, Takeshi

Takeshi Saji is a renowned knifemaker in Japan. A third generation forger, Saji began making blades at the age of 16 and at the age of 45 passed the test to be designated a traditional Japanese craftsman. Saji knives are made using the very best materials.

Sakai

Schatt & Morgan

Schatt & Morgan, a fine, old, and very collectible name, was founded over 100 years ago and bought by Queen City Cutlery in 1932. In 1947, Queen City changed its name to Queen Cutlery. At least part of the operation is still housed in the original Schatt & Morgan factory.

Schrade

For almost 100 years, Schrade Knives has produced some of the world's most popular pocket and hunting knives. Relying on the strength of third and fourth generation employees, Schrade has become one of the great collaboration partners in the knife industry beginning at the top with R. W. Loveless in 1971 or 1972. Today, they are working with the best of today's knifemakers. Schrade knives and tools are manufactured in Ellenville, NY and have a well earned reputation for quality and value.

Schuchmann, Rick (SCAR Knives)

Rick Schuchmann calls his business "Schuchmann Cutlery and Replicas" or SCAR. He is a buyer for the German chemical giant Siemans, lives in Ohio and has been making knives for the past 5-1/2 years.

Seki-Cut

Skalja

Laurent Doussot, handmade knifemaker and winner of the Best Folder award at the Paris Knife Show last year, has developed a new line of semi-production knives under the mark Skalja. Born in France, but now living in Quebec, Canada, Laurent is blending his work as a sculptor with his calling as a knifemaker.

SOG Specialty Knives

Any time you are considering knives from SOG, you are looking at some of the most popular knives made in the late 20th Century. Spencer Frazer has been enormously successful because he is a business man, he insists on quality, and he has come up with some outrageous designs that really pleased a lot of knife people.

Spyderco

Spyderco is one of the top "Specialty Knife Companies"; specializing in the production of knives of somewhat limited interest, instead of the making of knives for the mass market.

SuperKnife

The Super Knife really is the Ultimate Utility Knife. This is a box cutter with style. It uses any of the utility blades available for standard utility knives. We have illustrated six different blades which will work in this knife including household and contractor grade blades. There may be others.

Swiss Army

The Swiss Army Knife was invented by Carl Elsener in 1891. It is over 100 years old. Over 34,000 pocket tools with the distinctive Swiss cross leave the factory in central Switzerland each day. Ninety percent are for export to over 100 different countries and serve as ambassadors for Switzerland.

Timberline™ Knives

Viper

The knife industry in Europe, as well as in Japan, has always centered around one area in each country. In England, it was Sheffield, in Germany Solingen, in Japan, Seki City and in Italy it has been Maniago. In the recent past, we have seen a decline in quality knife production in England, Germany, the United States and most recently in Japan. There are good companies making quality knives remaining in Germany, Japan and the U. S., but they are few. Many have succumbed to the pressure to make cheaper knives which has resulted in the move of a tremendous amount of knife production first to Taiwan and then to mainland China. It is only Maniago that has managed to hold much of their high quality knife production.

Wenger

The Company, founded in 1893, is located at Delémont, in the Swiss Jura region. The majority of its 250 employees are inhabitants of the area, home to high precision industries (watchmaking, machine tools, microtechnology, microelectronics). It is not surprising, therefore, that the taste for innovation, precision and expert craftsmanship - imbued values of the region - permeate the Company's own industrial culture.

William Henry

William Henry is one of the very best of the semi-handmade, semi-production, knife makers. These knives are made to extremely high quality standards of materials and precision in workmanship.

Winchester

These knives feature the Winchester .270 Cartridge shield. Cartridge Series is etched on the master blade.

Wrangler Knives

The Wrangler® brand on a knife is a new idea. We know the brand for the good solid clothing produced for the western working man. Sometime during the past year, they made an arrangement with some folks within the knife industry to license the brand for knives. At this point, there is only a small quantity in the line. It will be interesting to see what becomes of this.

Xikar®

Since 1997, Kansas City-based Xikar®, Inc., has swept the cigar cutter landscape like a prairie twister. Xikar is the Mayan word for the large, dark cicada, from which cigars - supposedly resembling - first derived their name. But while the Xikar® name harkens back in history, nearly every aspect of the company's innovative cutters are thoroughly modern - designed from the ground up, combining ergonomic functionality and contemporary aesthetics.

ZAK

One of our Japanese suppliers.