Razor-shard sales: hone your gun shop knife profits!

Shooting Industry, March, 2005 by Jim Gardner

In addition, many manufacturers offer replacement sheaths. There are also knife maintenance products that provide additional sales. Sentry Solutions and Militec Inc. offer products formulated to protect knives.

Be Ready To Sell

These are golden days for the knife market. There's an unceasing flow of new production knives--each one seemingly more exotic in style and finer in quality than the last. Custom knives--if you're ready to tackle this more challenging market--also are better than ever.

And the "fashion" aspect of best-grade cutlery means there's always a racy, new model customers are anxious to see--and buy. Take the steps to make your store the first place customers visit when the "bug" bites.

KNIFE MARKET

A.G. Russell                  346
Al Mar Knives                 347
Atlanta Cutlery               348
Bear Cutlery                  349
Benchmade Knife Co.           350
Beretta Knives                351
Blade-Tech                    352
Browning                      353
Buck Knives                   354
California Competition Works  355
Camillus Cutlery Co.          356
Chris Reeve Knives            357
Coast Cutlery Co.             358
Cold Steel Cutlery            359
Colt Knives                   360
Columbia River Knife & Tool   361
Combat Elite                  362
Cutters Knife & Tool          363
Diamond Machining Technology  364
Edgecraft Corp.               365
Elishewitz Knives             366
Emerson Knives                367
EZE-LAP Diamond Products      368
Frost Cutlery Co.             369
Gerber Legendary Blades       370
Glock                         371
Great American Tool Co.       372
GT Knives                     373
Gutmann Cutlery               374
Heckler & Koch                375
Ka-Bar Knives Inc.            376
Katz Knives                   377
Kershaw Knives                378
Kimber                        379
KutMaster Cutlery             380
Leatherman Tool Group Inc.    381
Lightfoot Knives              382
Lone Wolf Knives              383
Masters of Defense            384
Meyerco USA                   385
MicroTech Knives              386
Moteng Inc.                   387
Outdoor Edge Cutlery          388
Randall Made Knives           389
Remington Arms                390
Rinaldi Knives                391
Ruger                         392
SIG                           393
Smith & Wesson                394
Smith Abrasives               395
SOG Specialty Knives          396
Springfield Armory            397
Spyderco Inc.                 398
Strider Knives                399
Swiss Army Brands             400
Taylor Cutlery                401
Tigersharp Technologies       402
Tighe Knives                  403
Timberline Knives             404
United Cutlery Corp.          405
W. R. Case & Sons             406
William Henry Knives          407
Wilson Tactical               408

STORY & PHOTOS: JIM GARDNER