How do I go about ordering a Custom Knife?

While I make some stock items that you can purchase straight away through this website, most of the knives I make are custom orders. I really enjoy creating kitchen tools that reflect the ideas and material preferences of my customers and like to include them in the process and journey as much as possible.

To have a knife made for you typically begins with you giving me as much information as possible about what it is that you are after. Size, style, materials, intended purpose, left or right handed, size of hands, etc... The more the better. From there I can give you a quote and a rough timeline and if you agree to those, we'll lock it in. I generally require a 50% deposit prior to commencing the work on your knife with the final payment due before shipping. Once I start to work on your knife, I will send you updates and images as I go along.

'So, how much does one of your knives cost?" I get asked a lot. The answer depends on a variety of factors (similar to the length of a piece of string, really). Apart from the materials and the consumables (particularly the abrasives) it mostly comes down to time. A longer knife takes more time to forge, grind and finish as compared to a shorter knife. A damascus knife takes a lot more time than a mono steel knife in the exact same shape since I generally spend an extra day making the steel. Working with Tungsten steel involves a more complex and energy and time intensive heat treatment protocol and grinding steel at such high hardness and wear resistance leaves a big dint in the abrasives stash... You get the idea.

Over the years I was able to come up with a formula that reflects all of these parameters.

The baseline cost for a High Carbon Mono Steel (like 52100) is AU$ 120/inch blade length.

To the base price add 50-60% for High Carbon Damascus (depending on complexity of the pattern and more for mosaic damascus)