I design them and have them made to our standards. Pocket Knives, One Hand Knives, Lock Backs and Fixed Blade Knives. Al Mar Knives Gary Fadden, a fellow Green Beret and friend of Al Mar s, has taken 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. When you are looking for a Tactical Knife, the place you begin, and often the place you stop, is the Benchmade page of the catalog.
Blackjack knives are among the most collectible of recently made production knives.
When they were being made in Effingham, Illinois, they were marvelous working knives and outstanding values. Now that the little company has been bankrupted and is no longer in existence, the values are rising very nicely. Always very good, they now lead the rest, and are one of the few established firms who are willing to try new ideas. 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.