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CUSTOM KNIVES FOR YOUR INDUSTRY

OEMs in need of custom knives require high-quality blades manufactured for their specific purpose, application, and industry needs. A knife manufacturer should be able to design and manufacture a custom knife that meets your exact specifications.

At shieldon.net & Knife, we have an experienced engineering design team that can produce a knife specific to your OEM’s blade configuration, material, and application. Our custom machine knife capabilities include manufacturing several different types of industrial machine blades along with experience across a range of industries with diverse applications.

AG RUSSELL KNIVES

The Russells are icons in the traditional knife world. Andrew Russell started selling knives he made on his kitchen table in the mid-’60s, then (as these things go) slowly moved up in space over time. By the mid 90’s A.G. Russell Knives was operating out of an 8,000 sq. ft building, then less than a decade after that had to find an even bigger building in Rogers, Arkansas.

Russell’s wife, Goldie Russell, joined the company in the late ’80s and played a huge part in improving their catalog. She went on to become president of A.G. Russell Knives (and still is, at the time of this writing). She also became president of the board at the Knife & Tool Institute in 2007 and became a key part in keeping assisted open and one-handed open knives from being classified as switchblades (which basically saved the entire industry from taking a drastic downward turn). In 2014, she was accepted into the Cutlery Hall of Fame. None of that has much to do with A.G. Russell Knives manufacturing; it’s just a cool thing I think everyone should know.

Now, A.G. Russell Knives is not exactly a manufacturer (at least, not just a manufacturer). They’re a vendor too. A lot of their business as a mail order company involved selling knives made by other companies and still does. But they also make their own knives, so it can be a bit confusing to gauge what is made by who and where by just looking at their website.

Starting out, every design under the A.G. Russell Knives’ name came out of Arkansas, but over the years they’ve been outsourced to several different countries, including Italy, Germany, Japan, and (more recently) China. To complicate things further, they picked up the manufacturing of Morseth knives in the ’80s with Bob Dozier working in their factory, and even picked up the rights to Cattaraugus knives, producing a few collector’s pieces through a factory in Seki, Japan.

Also, as an old company with a lot of history and attention to collectors, they sometimes find old knives like the K87 One-Hand Knife lying around (a model which was made in parts in Japan, but assembled in the U.S.), so sometimes the pattern will be broken by a piece of history bubbling up to the surface.

BARK RIVER KNIVES

This is a pretty well-established outdoor knife brand, despite only existing as a company since 2001. They’re interesting because a lot of their knives are semi-production and semi-handmade. It’s a family-owned business full of really skilled people who pay very close attention to each knife.

From what I’ve seen, their base blade stocks go through some kind of CNC production but all the polishing, handle shaping, and sharpening is done through hand grinding. As a result, all of their knives tend to run around the $200 mark, but their knives earn that price tag. Bark River fixed-blades are pretty widely considered some of the best you can get. They’re also one of the few companies still making common use of the convex grind.

BEAR AND SON CUTLERY

This is a family company that started in the early 90s. For a while now they’ve been a good source for traditional-style Lockback knives. They also make a lot of butterfly, tactical, and one-handed EDCs in a broad range of styles. I first noticed them because of their trapper knives, but these days it seems like their butterfly knives are the hot ticket item. Either way, they’re very proud of the fact that every stage of their knife manufacturing takes place in the US. All the washers, scales, steel, screws, and beyond (for most of their knives) are done in their own factory.

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