A.G. Russell Knives

Gaétan Beauchamp is extremely talented and is one of the most popular knifemakers to be featured in the A.G. Russell™ and Cutting Edge® catalogs. He sold his first knife in 1992 and we first featured his knives in 2001. He is not only a highly technically skilled artist, but an extremely creative one as well. His specialty is unusual and rare handle material on well-made, dependable and attractive knives.

A great knife for the price! This sturdy knife is a great addition to your toolbox and is perfect for your everyday needs.

Ron Lake and I have been friends for almost 40 years. From the time I met him, his knives have been remarkable. Ron left the traditional locking knife behind and launched into new territory from his first folder, developing features like the tail lock and the interframe.

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The Ripple™ is the first collaboration between noted knifemaker and designer Ken Onion and Columbia River Knife & Tool. This knife is noteworthy for its almost unbelievable silky smooth and fast opening action. Even the best conventional blade pivot bearings have some degree of friction which resists initial movement.

Wrangler's® series of miniature fixed blade knives has proven to be very popular with A. G. Russell™ customers. I believe that you will enjoy this set of 3 miniature folders – a Congress, a Serpentine Stockman and a Trapper – just as much.

Over the last several months Boker has celebrated their 140th anniversary by introducing small limited edition production runs. Many of the patterns chosen for this series are traditional designs featuring a 140th anniversary old style tree brand shield of nickel silver. These two are no exception.

In order to make this one a little more affordable, Lone Wolf has chosen CPL composite as the "canvas" for the scrim. The scrim is a Black Widow spider on its web, again on the obverse side only.

Ed Van Hoy is a multi-award winning knifemaker from Virginia with a career in knifemaking that has spanned more than 30 years. Known for his innovative designs, some of which are produced by Columbia River Knife & Tool®, Ed's custom knives are highly sought after, both in the U.S.A. and internationally.

The Alaskan Skinner was my favorite Randall pattern for many years. It is the first Randall I bought when I had $35 to spare. After more than 60 years it is still one of their most usable knives.

The Wrangler® Ozark Hunter is a fine using knife, not just a knife to hang on the belt. Its traditional style, including an antiqued, hammered finish, harkens back to a time when a knife was more than a collector's piece, it was a lifeline.

The Monarch is one of William Henry's classic models. Its smooth lines and elegant handle shape make are perfect showcase for the exotic handle materials and unusual bolster designs for which William Henry is known.

Mica Pearl, a unique resin based handle material, was developed to be an alternative to Celluloid. It is 100% stable, it will not burn or change color with age. Each color is developed in an atmospherically controlled environment, poured and controlled so each handle scale pattern is unique with a blend of black, gold and white.

The 3" Razor style blade makes this a "One Arm Knife", designed to be opened by hooking the front of the blade on a boot, shoe or pocket and snapping it open.

The striking Black Jet handles with a triangle shaped inlay of contrasting Apple Coral, highlighted by double strips of nickel silver, makes this a strikingly handsome addition to your dinner table. The reverse side of the handle is solid black jet.

The original George Washington pen knife is one of the heirlooms on display at Mount Vernon. Given to the 15 year old by his mother as a reward for his unwavering obedience, he carried the knife with him all his life, even as President of the United Sates.

You will be inspired by the over 1,000 color photographs of beautiful handcrafted cutlery in this book. New trends, feature articles by the industries top authorities and updated contact information from the world's greatest knifemakers are only a few things that this must-have book includes.

The Mini SERE Operator™ features a 3-7/8" talon style blade of VG-10 stainless at 58-60 Rc. with blasted Linen Micarta scales over a full tang with holes through the handle to reduce the weight.

The first Al-Mar® knife, introduced to the public in 1985, was a 6" folder with a 4-1/2" blade weighing 12 oz. While some of the early knives made it into SERE (Survival-Evasion-Resistance-Escape), a program that provides military personnel, Department of Defense civilians and private military contractors with training in evading capture, survival skills and the military code of conduct, the vast majority were snapped up by those of us who love knives.

Böker® of Germany, a 100+ year old knife company, and Bob Dozier, one of America's foremost makers of handmade knives, have teamed up to produce several of Bob's designs. One of those designs is the Anchorage Pro Skinner with green Micarta®.

Over the past several years, Gary Fadden, owner of Al Mar knives, has re-introduced the Al Mar Eagle, Hawk and Osprey with nickel silver bolsters and brass liners. He has also introduced the same three models and the Falcon in an Ultralight version with both the Classic style blade and with the Talon blade.

For the past couple of years, we have offered a series of traditional style, fixed blade, miniature knives from Wrangler®. These have consisted of three slightly different Bowie knives. For those of you with an interest toward military knives,

The 3-5/8" drop point blade is the same steel used in the Mammoth Ivory version - Carpenter Steel's CTS-40CP powder metal stainless at 59-60 Rc. Bob has found that it has fewer imperfections that the 154CM that he is currently able to buy.

For many years, Boker® offered a Magnum Collectors Knife from well-known designers, in limited editions which were serialized. The popularity of this series internationally became such that many U.S.A. customers were left disappointed because the set would sell out before American customers had a chance to purchase one.

We are often told that big things come in small packages. Spyderco's® Poliwog seems to prove that rule. At first this knife seems small, but when in your hand it feels and cuts like a large blade. The Poliwog features Spyderco's open-end Ball Bearing Lock, one of the strongest of all of their locking mechanisms.

Our Shopmade® program makes maximum use of our assets. Our knowledge of who can do the best job of waterjet cutting, heat treat, wire electro-discharge machining, and rough grind all allows the greatest productivity from our rarest asset, the time of our expert knifemaker(s).

This knife is unique in that the front of the fiberglass reinforced handle has a clip (with a steel core) which allows the knife to be clipped to your clothing or gear for easy access.

This Carbon Fiber model is Spyderco's® 18th version of their limited Kopa series which was introduced in 2005. Like the other seventeen, this version is limited to a total of 600 pieces.

The Chuck Buck/A. G. Russell Signature knife will be limited to a total of 500 pieces of signed and serial numbered knives – 250 with Black Lip Pearl and 250 with India Stag.

Wayne Hendrix's experience as a hunting guide drives his knife designs. He specializes in very fine, hard working hunting knives with different handle materials. We have previously offered his Model 30 and Model 32 in a variety of handle materials.

This miniature from Wrangler® is based on the Puma White Hunter which was introduced in 1956 and is probably the most well known of the Puma Fixed Blade Knives.

With 19 tools, this new version of the Leatherman Super Tool is a multi-tool for the trades. It is built to stand up in the rugged work environment of electricians, carpenters and plumbers. Leatherman's recent design trend has been more toward tools that "look good". The Super Tool 300 is a move back to the type of tool the Leatherman brand was built on.

For this Limited Edition Defender, Lone Wolf Knives has chosen beautiful fossilized blue "Brain Coral" recovered from the ocean floor off the Florida Keys. Brain coral is a common name given to certain corals due to their generally spheroid shape and grooved surface, which resembles an animal brain.

Bob has agreed to produce ten Loveless style Drop Point Hunters with Interior Wooly Mammoth Ivory handle scales specifically for members of the Knife Collectors Club™ and A. G. Russell™ customers.

This one, the Ring Opener, was revived in 2006. It was originally designed for those who did not have strong fingernails. Just twist the ring and the blade opens or closes, no need to break your nails.

At the 2007 S.H.O.T. Show, we were shown a prototype of Leatherman's new Skeletool™ and Skeletool™-CX. The basic premise is a really lightweight pocket tool with the most needed features and one hand opening and closing.

This miniature from Wrangler is another interpretation of the many Bowie Knives with coffin shaped handles made over the last 200 to 300 years.

Böker® recently introduced an exceptional new knife based on one of Bob Dozier’s best selling models, the Dozier Yukon Pro Skinner.

Cowry X Damascus is some of the finest blade steel I have seen. It is a laminated steel that was a forerunner of the laminated VG-10 damascus and laminated ZDP steels. The core is Cowry X at 66-68 Rc. sandwiched between layers of softer stainless steel.

Bob recently made a very limited production of thirty Slim Drop Point Hunters with Green Canvas Micarta® inspired by the drop point hunter made by R. W. Loveless since the 1960s. To create this Slim Drop Point, Bob has taken his Loveless inspired drop point hunter and reduced the blade width to 7/8" while keeping all other measurements the same as the full width original.

The Randall Model 1 Fighter was one of the first models produced in the Randall Shop in Orlando. A Model 1, made by Bo Randall, served as the prototype for the Springfield Randall that was manufactured by Northampton Cutlery Company near Springfield, Massachusetts in 1943 and 1944.

If you have ever broken a nail trying to open a strong springed knife or a difficult soda-pop can, then you know how helpful the proper tool for such a purpose can be. As I get older, I find that my once stout nails are becoming more and more like my hair, thin and fragile. Slipjoint knives, unless perfectly engineered and perfectly made, have become very difficult for me to open without an assist. Square tanged knives are very difficult without the proper tool.

This Wrangler® Hunter is a traditional style knife with a full tang, but the handle is certainly not traditional. A snakeskin camo pattern has been applied over a molded plastic handle creating a surface that feels "soft".

Over the past several years, Gary Fadden, owner of Al Mar knives, has re-introduced the Al Mar Eagle, Hawk and Osprey with nickel silver bolsters and brass liners. He has also introduced the same three models and the Falcon in an Ultralight version with both the Classic style blade and with the Talon blade. The Falcon is the last of these four models to be introduced with traditional construction.

In addition to a special limited edition knife each month to commemorate their 140th year in the knife business, Böker® is creating some very short runs of traditional folders with a special 140th Anniversary inlay. Many of these knives are making use of existing parts and materials, some of which remain from regular production from years ago. Some of these materials have not been seen on Böker knives in many years.

Our good friend, commercial hunting guide and knifemaker Russ Kommer has recently teamed up with Browning® to produce a limited edition series of hunting knives representing each of the four Full Curl Sheep. The designs are all Kommer; the manufacture is by Browning. Those knives will begin to deliver in the next few weeks. As a part of that collaboration, Russ is making a limited edition of fifty of his drop point hunter for Browning.

Commercial hunting guide and knifemaker Russ Kommer has recently teamed up with Browning® to produce a limited edition series of hunting knives representing each of the four Full Curl Sheep. The designs are all Kommer, the manufacture is by Browning. The first two to be delivered are the Dall Sheep and the Stone Sheep.

The 2-1/4" Wharncliffe and a 1-3/4" Clip blade are both made from Tony's preferred 154-CM stainless steel at 58-61 Rc., on a single backspring.

For their 2009 Annual Damascus Folder, Böker® has chosen a very formidable design by Armin Stutz an Austrian knifemaker. The 3-3/8" modified drop point blade is made from 300 layer "Explosion Damascus" forged by the talented German forger Andreas Henrichs who has created some of the most exquisite damascus found anywhere.