We made a high quality blade for you. It should last you a lifetime with proper care!

How to care for your knife:

• Do not wash it in a dishwasher

• After use, wash by hand and wipe dry (if you leave bits of food or water on it, it will rust)

• Keep in a dry clean space

• Do not leave the knife in a sink full of water

• Do not use chemicals to clean the blade or the hilt

• Do not throw the knife, it will break

• Do not use it to pick, break or chip anything – if enough pressure is applied to the tip of the blade it will break. The knife is designed to cut, nothing else.

• Do not attempt to break hard things with the knife (bone, coconuts, nutshells)

• Do not pick the knife apart or try to modify it

• The knife should be sharpened only with a whetstone – kitchen knife sharpeners will eventually ruin the blade, do not use them if you want the best performance and longevity out of your blade

• Every once in a while oil the handle with oils formulated for knife handles

If you follow these simple rules your knife will serve you for decades without fail.

We are a disability confident employer and we have apprenticeship schemes open to victims of the war, who would like to retrain. Quite a lot of people have lost not only their homes and livelihoods but also the potential to earn money – a lot do not speak any foreign languages, many had professions that are not relevant abroad (like lawyers, if you have passed the bar in one country and know that country’s laws, once you move out of that country you are unemployable)

Providing a source of income and training in a craft that transcends language barriers to those who need it keeps us motivated to persevere and continue with our work, even when it gets very stressful and hard.

We make 100% of our knives ourselves. The steel we use is delivered to us in the shape of bars from a German factory, we plate the bar until it is of the right thickness to be used in blades, then we cut the shape of the blade out of the plate and proceed to heat treat it with double cryo (to make the steel live up to its full potential), then we bevel it on a grinder.

We make the handles from wood (usually Karelian birch) that we buy raw. We dry the wood and stabilise it with epoxy under pressure. After treatment the wood becomes very robust and sturdy, resistant to moist and temperature shifts (things that would be detrimental to untreated wood). The wood also becomes easier to polish and refresh with household means – it will only take a little care from you to keep it looking as good as new.

Knives of similar quality cost at least twice as much if you buy them from US and European knifesmiths. We keep our profit margins as low as possible to earn ourselves a name and reputation on the market.

By buying from us you are getting a high quality knife made by a knifesmith with 10-30 years of professional experience for the price of factory made mass produced blade and you are providing meaning to people who have lost their homes and jobs.