A.G. Russell Knives

In early 2002, we had the opportunity to purchase in Japan the remaining stock of several models produced for Paragon Knives. Paragon had a program in which they took designs by American knifemakers to Seki, Japan and produced very high quality knives. The original owner of Paragon lost the company and the new owner followed the same program. Earlier this year, we were offered the opportunity to again purchase remaining stock from Japan.

The Gerber Mark I, in production from 1976 to 1997, was originally offered with L6, a special alloy high carbon tool steel, blades. Gerber produced several variations between 1976 and 1997, when production ceased. Variations included a blade length change, different blade steel and the option of a blackened blade offered in 1984, but the basic knife has stayed the same. This 1500 piece remake of the Mark I celebrates the 35th anniversary of its introduction.

The Devil's Brigade, officially known as the 1st Special Service Force, was organized in July of 1942. During WWII, this special task force of American and Canadian soldiers completed missions in the Aleutian Islands, Italy and southern France before being disbanded in December 1944.

The Scuba/Demo is the rarest of the original Special Forces SOG knives. In fact, only one original is known to exist today. Only thirty-nine were made and thirty-eight of those were delivered to the Naval Advisory Detachment for missions on the North Vietnamese coastline. They were issued to OPLAN 34 ALPHA in 1964. Thirty-six were lost in operations and two were never seen again.

The "radioactive" green textured GFN-PA66 handle scales provide a lightweight ultra secure grip for added control. Ka-Bar asks: Are you prepared? Well, these knives just might help.

We have made the A.G. Russell Shopmade push dagger letter openers with both giraffe bone and deep, dark, ebony wood handle scales. Even though both of these materials are beautiful and much appreciated by knife buyers, these knives provide a perfect opportunity to showcase beautiful interior fossilized mammoth ivory.

We worked on the new Sting™3 for two plus years, intending to do the one-piece forgings in Germany and the grinding and finishing in the United States. After almost two years without a finished sample, we recovered our deposit for the forging dies and cancelled the project.

This knife is a high-impact resistant, heavy-duty, combat knife that has been designed to withstand extreme conditions.

Gil Hibben made his first knife after retiring from the Navy in 1956. Over the years he has achieved fame as a custom knifemaker and has developed a who's-who following of knife collectors. He has designed several knives for Sylvester Stallone movies, including several for Stallone's 2010 release, The Expendables.

In 1981 when the Gerber Command was first introduced, CPM S30V a first choice steel of many of today's top knifemakers, had not yet been developed. The wear and corrosion resistance of this blade steel certainly make it a perfect choice for a knife like Gerber's Command, or the Mark II which proceeded it.

The Guardian Back Up is a fixed blade self-defense knife that is extremely lightweight and compact. This dagger style knife is designed for carrying on a belt, boot or a strap.

You don't see one like this everyday. If it is not a football, what is it? A truly unique design with a genuine football leather handle, complete with a real seam. A football leather belt sheath completes the "football".

A uniquely American development, push daggers first appeared on the early riverboats and in the gold fields of California and Nevada. The period right after the Civil War saw new development in cartridge pistols making them more reliable and much less likely to misfire, which seems to have contributed to the decline in popularity of this type of knife.

Push Daggers appear to be a uniquely American development, first appearing on the early riverboats and in the gold fields of California and Nevada. Gamblers favored them because they could be as swift across a poker or faro table as a percussion pistol without the possibility of a mis-fire.

This is a heavily made dagger or dirk with a 7" blade of O-1 high carbon tool steel with a Rockwell hardness of 54. The India Stag handle measures 4-3/4"- 5" and has a brass double hilt.

SOG® has a reputation of making some of the finest production fixed blade knives in the world. That reputation began with their first knife in the early 1980s, a replica of the original Studies and Observation Group knife secretly developed and used in the Vietnam War by the 5th Special Forces and other elite soldiers.

Gerber Legendary Blades® first introduced the Mark II™ in 1966 during the Vietnam War. It became the most sought after knife of the Viet Nam conflict and has been one of the best selling knives of all time.

Sized down into a 3-1/2" blade of 1/8" AUS-6 at 55-57 Rc with a gray powder coat. Checkered handle of glass reinforced Zytel®. Black Kydex sheath. Made in Taiwan. Suggested retail $88.00.

Böker® began reproducing legendary fighting knives with Damascus blades in 1999. The knife was the Applegate-Fairbairn fighter. The most recent is their re-introduction of the German Trench Knife. In 1915, when the battle lines of WWI changed into a trench war, there was a growing need to supply the infantryman with a functional dagger. Henrich Böker & Company of Solingen, Germany received the government order to develop a compact fighting knife.

About 20 years ago Col. Applegate premiered his Applegate-Fairbairn Fighting Knife. The first version was handmade by T. J. Yancy in Colorado. This knife has had a long life. When T. J. stopped making them, Al Mar made them in Japan. While Blackjack had their factory operating in Illinois, they made the knife, and now they are being made by Böker® in Solingen, Germany.