ABOUT KIT RAE

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, and his knives and swords have appeared in popular television shows such as Burn Notice, The X-Files, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, 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 has also created and supervised many licensed weapon replicas from films and television shows such as Prince of Persia, Blade, Blade Trinity, Hellboy, Total Recall, Mortal Kombat, Highlander, The Mask of Zorro, Heroes, and over fifty products for The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Kit is also the replica design supervisor for many weapons from the video gaming industry, such as the Frostmourne sword from World of Warcraft, the Red Queen sword from Devil May Cry, and the blades from God of War. His own sword designs have appeared in several video games.

Kit has created custom knife designs for companies such as United Cutlery, Harley-Davidson, Remington, and Colt. In 1996 his Colt Knife/Axe combo won a Blade Magazine award. He was the creator of the Legends in Steel, Samurai 3000, Steel Apocalypse, Blades of Atlantis, and the Swords of the Ancients collections for United Cutlery.

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, exclusively distributed by United Cutlery. 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, an ongoing line medieval inspired fantasy weapons for which he created a series of companion fantasy art paintings and a mythology. Though Kit has been designing knives and swords since 1984, fantasy and sci-fi art have always been his passion.

Kit Rae, the Artist

Kit Rae is an artist who specializes in the fantasy, pinup, sci-fi, and horror genres. Kit’s background in art started when he was a child with charcoal drawing, acrylic and oil painting. His fantasy artwork has appeared as companion art prints included with his popular Swords of the Ancients collection, in a series of limited edition art prints, B.C. Rich guitar art, and in a line of Zippo art lighters. Most of his current art is tied to his tale of the Swords of the Ancients, a mythological story he created as a background for his art. Kit's influences were from such varied artists as Frank Frazetta, Michael Whelan, Boris Vallejo, Jim Burns, Moebius, H.R. Giger, Gil Elvgren, 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, photography, and the computer.