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KIT RAE, THE KNIFE
DESIGNER - Kit Rae is one of the foremost fantasy/collectible weapon
designers in the industry with a worldwide following for his unique fantasy
weapons. He was the lead designer for United Cutlery for over fifteen
years, responsible for design of the Legends in Steel, Samurai 3000, Steel
Apocalypse, Blades of Atlantis, Volkoth, and the Swords of the Ancients
collections. His knives have appeared in blockbuster television shows
such as "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine", "The X-Files",
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer", and numerous films such as "Spider
Man 2", "Star Trek: Nemesis", and "The Chronicles
of Riddick". In addition to designing such famous collectible weapons
as the Indiana Jones Khyber Bowie for Lucasfilm and the Sword of Darkness
for United Cutlery, Kit Rae has also supervised many licensed weapon replicas
from films such as "Blade/Blade Trinity,"" Hellboy",
"Total Recall," "Mortal Kombat", "The Mask of
Zorro", and over fifty products for "The Lord of the Rings Trilogy".
He has also created custom knife designs for companies like United Cutlery,
Harley-Davidson, and Colt, and in 1996 won a Blade Magazine award. In
1997 Kit created the highly successful Kit Rae Fantasy Art brand, a line
of his unique collectible weapons with companion art prints of his fantasy
paintings.
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Images from a hidden
world of dreams and nightmares inspire this line of edged creations. Some
of His designs are strikingly beautiful, some wickedly haunting, and some
defy conventional description. Kit's fantasy knives and swords spawned the
creation of a huge collectible market worldwide for fantasy weapons that
has generated numerous imitators. He is most well known for his best selling
Swords of the Ancients collection, for which he created a series of companion
fantasy art paintings and stories. Though Kit has been designing knives
since 1984, fantasy and sci-fi art have always been Kit's passion and are
his primary business through his Kit Rae Design Studio, LLC.
KIT RAE, THE ARTIST - Kit Rae is an artist who specializes in the
sci-fi, fantasy, and horror genres. His background in art started when he
was a child with charcoal drawing, acrylic and oil painting. He was influenced
by such varied artists as Frank Frazetta, Michael Whelan, Boris Vallejo,
Jim Burns, Moebius, H.R. Giger, and film concept artists, Ron Cobb, Ralph
McQuarrie, and Joe Johnston. These days Kit uses a mixed media approach
to his art, utilizing drawing, painting, sculpting, photography, and the
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