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Savernake Knives - Progressive English Knife Makers crafting custom & bespoke kitchen and outdoor knives for chefs, cooks, and adventurers.

Founded in the heart of Savernake Forest in Wiltshire, Savernake Knives creates precision-engineered, custom knives for those who value craftsmanship and quality. Our mission is to combine traditional knife-making techniques with innovative design, ensuring each knife is as unique as its owner. Explore our full range at www.savernakeknives.co.uk.

23/10/2026

Tamboti Esoterica - Tamboti is one of Africa’s great hardwoods. Rich, dark, and warm, it ages like nothing else.

These knives are for those of you who want to explore some of our less mainstream blades. We have managed to source some particularly beautiful (and extremely durable) Tamboti from a sustainable source in southern Africa, and it’s the little hints of sapwood next to the glorious heartwood that really sets these knives apart. That and our wicked blades, of course…

Knives Included -

🔪 10” Butcher’s Knife
🔪 Astounding Cleaver
🔪 The Savernake Knife
🔪 Raven’s Claw
🔪 Useful B***r
🔪 G&T Slicer

16/10/2026

Josh, our Head of Metal, made this set for his sister Heidi’s wedding. The deal was that he’d use up his staff discount allowance for the rest of eternity and that if it turned out well we’d put it up on the website.

As you’d expect from a man who’s made nigh on 3000 custom knives, it turned out impeccably - and made from first cut to last buff by Josh over the course of the year. Some bespoke blades from the archives mixed in there, it’s just an amazing display of one man’s dedication over outside hours and lunch breaks snatched as and when.

We call it Glacier Nox; a ridiculously contrived name in direct contrast to its honest origins.

08/10/2026

Dress the table properly.

The Woods of Savernake steak knives. Feather-light blades, honed to glide through anything from a fillet to a particularly gnarly bavette.

Choose your shape: Savernake, Deco, Grenouille or Gaucho, and leave the woods to us.
For every set we hand-select a different piece of timber for each knife. Mopane, Bocote and African Olive are pictured here, but no two sets will ever be quite the same.

Whether you order a pair or twelve, we choose the woods together. Different enough to give every knife its own character, but considered as a set.
Matching, without being matchy-matchy.

The Deco is the exception, its clean lines paired with a sleek modern composite.

And they cut. CATRA independently rates our blades in the top 2.5% globally for sharpness and edge retention, because a steak knife that can’t cut is just cutlery.

Every set comes in its own green suede wrap, cut and stitched by Tiffany here in the workshop.
Unroll at the table, roll up afterwards. Job done.

If you’d like to make them properly yours, we can engrave each knife individually too. Just get in touch. 🥩🔪

The Deco
The Gaucho
Savernake San Mai
Grenouille

The Gaucho

Grenouille

The Deco

Savernake San Mai

06/10/2026

We’re proud that every pouch, sheath and roll we make is cut and stitched by hand.

This particular pair of hands belongs to Tiffany, our Master Saddler.

Everything we make in leather or suede comes off her bench, from custom knife rolls to simple suede wraps.

If you can picture it, Tiffers can probably make it. 🪡

28/09/2026

Today we welcomed 20 Year 12 Product Design students from St John’s Marlborough into the workshop 🔨

They rotated through every stage of how a Savernake knife is made - CNC with Josh, handle construction with Jack, the finishing process with Martyn, leatherwork with Tiffany, CAD with Laurie and to finish the morning off Arabella covering all things marketing.

Every student got hands-on and made their own Savernake Knives key ring to take home, using the laser engraver with Keith to mark the logo, then debossing it and their own initials into a leather disc with Tiffany.

The results were brilliant - and a fantastic morning all round. Thank you St John’s for bringing such great questions and energy!

20/09/2026

So, what steels can you choose?

The short answer is: quite a few.

Carbon steel has its occasional place (particularly in some of our thicker outdoor knives) but for our very thin kitchen knives we overwhelmingly favour stainless steels. Mainly because we don’t particularly want a kitchen knife that rusts, but also because our blades are already extremely thin when they’re hardened, which makes the more violent oil quench required by conventional carbon steels problematic.

At the more exotic end we use powder-metallurgical steels (RWL34 is an old favourite) and Damasteel’s stainless Damascus, although both come at a considerable price. For a knife hardened to around 60 HRC, we don’t necessarily think you’re getting a better knife simply by spending more on PM steel.

For something a little more spectacular, our two favourites are Takefu’s 67-layer VG10 San Mai and the VG10/VG2 Coreless shown here. The latter is made from alternating layers of two different stainless knife steels; after grinding and polishing, we use a staged acid etch to bring out the difference between them, producing that lovely dark-and-light pattern.

But if you’ve got a hankering after a particular type of steel (or a particular treatment) then get in touch and we’ll - of course - see what we can do.

- 🔪 Bespoke piece created for John M. 21cm Sujihiki with Fat Carbon Lava Flow and nickel silver handle.

11/09/2026

Stratus has been around for a while, in different forms.
It’s our version of Fordite. Accreted strata of workshop history in a handle.

First it was called The Megabucket, because we made it in a large bucket. That got vetoed for not having enough pizzazz.

So it became Stratus I. Then II, III, on up to about VIII.
At this point we’ve lost track of which is which.
So we’re not going to keep trying.

From now on, Stratus is just Stratus. A lucky dip.

Choose it in the configurator and we’ll pick a piece we think suits the knife you’ve designed. We can’t tell you what it’ll look like beforehand. That’s the point.

If that feels like too much to hand over, get in touch and we’ll send some photos of what’s in the workshop to choose from.

The idea came from Mark, who ordered a set made from a mix of different editions. It looked incredible.

Turns out randomness isn’t the enemy. It’s the friend.

Eight series, countless colours and patterns. One fewer decision to make.

27/08/2026

Take six colours and turn them into a set of steak knives…

GF Smith let us do exactly that - their extraordinary palette gives us almost limitless combinations to work with.

We build the handles from fine layers of 270 GSM paper, saturate them with resin and compress the whole thing into a hard, dense and remarkably durable material.

There are atmospheres of pressure and lots of degrees of temperature involved.

The finished handle feels far more like wood than paper, and we can shape, sand and finish it in much the same way. We’ve been making knife handles from it for nearly a decade. As we shape the handles (by hand, of course), the bands of colour widen, narrow and become almost translucent at the edges; blending into one another in ways that are almost unique to this particular method.

The result is a set that shares exactly the same palette, without any two knives being the same.

With 24 layers made from six colours, there are more than 3.2 quadrillion possible arrangements.

If you feel that’s a little excessive, a more refined palette of two will give you a much more acceptable couple of million choices.

This is what we love - a material that gives us, to all intents and purposes, infinite possibilities. 🌈

16/08/2026

Yew. Quite possibly our favourite English timber.

Harder than oak, remarkably elastic, extraordinarily stable and with enough strength to have armed medieval England.

But mostly, just look at it.

Cream, honey, orange, russet and deep red-brown, often in the same piece. Grain that wanders around knots, darkens, doubles back and generally refuses to behave itself.

No two pieces remotely alike.

We’ve found a wonderful new supply of English yew, so after a rather patchy absence, it’s coming properly back into the Savernake range.

Swipe for some of our favourites. 🪾🔪

01/08/2026

A knife of Feather & Spice

The handle is cast with star anise and guinea fowl feather, probably one of the most literal collaboration we’ve done. Made for the cabinet at Feather & Spice kitchen shop on Marlborough High Street.

It’s been quietly one of the most interesting Savernake cabinets anywhere, restocked three times now. They carry a rotating run of unique limited editions, and they’re now the last repository for anyone still after a knife from our British Steel range.

If you’re in the area, do pop in.

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Address

The Saw Mill, Warren Farm, Savernake
Marlborough
SN83BQ

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

Telephone

+441672870120

Website

http://www.savernakeknives.co.uk/

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