Our Wiltshire workshop creates remarkable steak knives for Michelin-starred restaurants, private members’ clubs and leading hotels – for people who care about precision, performance and provenance.
We've made thousands of custom knives for all manner of clients. Call upon that expertise for yourself.
Every commission is led personally by our founder and realised by the same team who make our world-class chef’s knives.
We take on only one or two bespoke projects at a time, ensuring undivided attention from concept to completion.
We listen carefully and will guide you every step of the way, balancing purity of art with the realities of manufacturing.
Everything you need to take a steak knife from idea to service — and keep it performing long after. Our knives designed for daily service, not occasional theatre.
Made to the same standard as our professional chef’s knives. High-carbon stainless steel, exacting tolerances and razor-sharp geometry designed to perform — and keep performing — in busy dining rooms.
From a vague brief, mood board or sketch to a finished, production-ready knife in weeks. Clear stages, fast prototypes and decisive progress — without sacrificing craftsmanship or control.
We offer re-conditioning, re-sharpening and refurbishment to keep your knives looking and performing as intended. Matching honing steels can be produced to support long-term care in service.
Through our extended making network, we can help source and create complementary elements — from knife rests and accessories to hard-to-find materials and bespoke dining details that complete the table.
If steak knives aren't your focus, we also create chef's knives, carving sets, hunters' blades, entire kitchen ranges and champagne sabres — each crafted to the same standard of balance, geometry and performance.
We typically respond within 24 hours to discuss your project.
Everything you need to know about commissioning bespoke steak knives.
Almost every other steak knife in existence is made from cutlery steel. A few are made from 13/0, which is serviceable when treated correctly, with others made from 18/10 (or even 18/0) – both of which are useless for a blade. They’re mass-manufactured with an eye on the margin and material cost (and therefore quality) is kept at an absolute minimum. They feel cheap and they cut badly – ours feel like proper knives and cut like the razor-sharp tools they’re designed to be.
Depending on the complexity of your design, we generally look for a minimum order of 100 knives. Extremely complex designs with the highest-end materials can be looked at for smaller quantities.
100 knives, with a custom design and using our standard materials, will start from £75 ex VAT each. This includes the entire design process and total engraving freedom.
It is if you order the knives. Once we’ve had a rough discussion around what you’re after and you’re keen to investigate further, we charge £300 per prototype made, which is fully redeemable against your final order.
It all depends on how decisive you are, but once the design has been finalised and the prototype approved, typically we ask for around 8 weeks.
Yes, however if you’re using a wooden handle then batches of wood will vary from one tree to another.
They can be designed for either; the weighting given to aesthetics over durability is entirely down to you. As a matter of course we make sure that our knives are made as well as is possible irrespective of the material, and also offer a very reasonable re-conditioning service if you’d prefer to take that up every year or so as a trade-off for a purer design.
While many of the materials we use originate from outside the UK, they’re mostly bought from distributors here. Other than that, the knives are made from scratch in this country.
We work with everyone, quite often all at once on the same project. We’re good with egos.
Yes of course, although alas the cost-saving will be less than you’d probably hoped for. Our philosophy is to make the best knives possible, and to do that we bake the concept of customisation in to the whole concept. You can take it out, but in the end it doesn’t make the knives any easier, cheaper or quicker to produce once the design has been approved.
Almost infinite, depending on your balance between function and appearance and – of course – cost. We can work with Pantone, RAL and other very precise colour specifications. If you’d like a shimmering emerald-coloured blade with a fine filigree of barely perceptible engraving, matched with a handle made from layers of compressed leather encapsulated in an epoxy polymer then we can make it. It’ll just take us a bit longer than 8 weeks and cost rather more than £75….
Yes, although there will be a little bit of translation. If you’re wanting to use our standard (i.e. non-bespoke) materials then you can choose from the available options, or we can have materials made to exactly match your brand palette. We can use little accent colours alongside standard materials more easily and less expensively if you want to meet us halfway. One thing to note is that most design work (outside of manufacturing) uses Pantone or Hex colours, whereas we need to translate that to RAL for manufacturing purposes.
The entire blade is yours to play around with and if it’s a black-and-white image (or text) then we can engrave it. We will always provide mock-ups, renders and previews as we go and your final prototype will (if you like) include your final engraving to sign off on.
And if your design team are running behind your purchasing team? Engraving is almost the last thing we do and so we can leave it until the week before delivery if you need to get things underway while pencils are sucked and brains stormed in the logo dept.
No knife is dishwasher-proof. Dishwashers are vibrating rust machines – not good for your handles or your blades. However, not all knives are created equally – if you need dishwasher resistance as an absolute priority then let us know at the beginning of the project and we’ll only suggest materials that have a fighting chance of getting through plenty of cycles. Also this is probably a good time to plug our re-conditioning service; send us a batch of your knives and we’ll re-condition and re-sharpen and get them back to you typically within 72 hours.
Oooooh they notice. If you don’t believe us then get in touch – we’ll lend you a pair of steak knives so you can either pop along to your nearest steak house (and probably get some funny looks) to try them out, or have a bash at home – they’ll get through the gnarliest of bavette without blinking an eyelid, and feel fantastically weighted and solid and sleek while doing so.
Every single knife is inspected for sharpness, fit and finish by a senior member of the workshop team. We use manufacturing techniques and processes that we’ve honed making thousands of custom knives and which (when followed closely by the workshop team) are proven to deliver something immaculate and incredibly robust every time.
Prototyping is part of the service; we’d never ask anyone to order any of our knives without having held a version of their final knife in their hands first. We can also supply material samples for you to ponder after we’ve nailed down a shortlist (or to help with the nailing in the first place).
We certainly do. We’ve used UPS to ship to everywhere from Colombia to Australia, Kenya to Dubai and Monaco to New York without any problems at all.
