The Cutting Edge® and cuttingedge.com™ is an aftermarket consignment service that began in 1968 as A.G. Russell’s List of Knives for Immediate Delivery. The Cutting Edge® is a printed catalog which offers higher priced knives, mostly handmade; sometimes antique, vintage, or historical knives may be included. Cuttingedge.com® is a website through which we sell mostly factory knives – great for the knife user looking for a discontinued knife which cannot be found through normal channels.
Knifemakers use The Cutting Edge® catalog and cuttingedge.com to sell their knives and to introduce their name to knife buyers. For the buyer, both The Cutting Edge® and cuttingedge.com are a great way to discover new up and coming knifemakers.
Because we add knives to the website every month, but print a catalog only every second month, owners will sometimes ask us to add their handmade knife to the website instead of the book. Most of the knives available through these two offerings are owned by folks like you – people who love knives. There is only one of each of the listed knife available. Should we have a duplicate, there will be two separate listings.
For over 55 years, The Cutting Edge® and cuttingedge.com® have been the largest and most visible aftermarket for knives of all kinds. From 1968 until the 1990s, A.G. Russell’s List of Knives for Immediate Delivery (renamed The Cutting Edge® in 1990) was about the ONLY place an individual could sell his knife collection, or buy handmade knives, without traveling to knife shows. The printed catalogs (The Cutting Edge®) offered the largest selections of individual handmade knives any place in the world.
The Cutting Edge® and cuttingedge.com are services provided by A.G. Russell Knives.
In 2000, we launched the cuttingedge.com website. Over the past two decades, that website has been growing larger and larger. We have just rebuilt the site. We hope you will find it much more user friendly – with better search and filter options. It has also been built for easy use with your tablet or smart phone.
We will continue to grow both cuttingedge.com and The Cutting Edge®. Please use the Contact Us feature to report any functionality issues you might have with our website. We think you will like the changes.
All the best,
Goldie Russell and Staff