Savernake knives

Savernake knives 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.

We were approached by a customer rather obsessed with his Kamado Joe UK set-up. The brief was simple: make something tha...
16/06/2026

We were approached by a customer rather obsessed with his Kamado Joe UK set-up. The brief was simple: make something that could keep up.

Black and red micarta for grip in any conditions. A billet of RWL34 hardened to 62 HRC - sharper and more wear-resistant than our already rather good standard steel, but still alignable with a honing steel on the rare occasions it needs it. Which, with this build, won’t be often.

The Gyuto felt like the right shape. A finer rock than most European chef’s knives, longer than the Classic, and a blade that gets out of the way and lets the motion happen. Paired here with a matching honing steel, because it seemed a shame not to.

The Future’s Bright, the Future’s OrangeOne honing steel, Savernake Knife, The Mako and a Steak Knife quartet - what a c...
10/06/2026

The Future’s Bright, the Future’s Orange

One honing steel, Savernake Knife, The Mako and a Steak Knife quartet - what a combo and all in Savernake Orange.

Monday after half term. Teacher training day. The workshop gains four quality control inspectors whether it likes it or ...
01/06/2026

Monday after half term. Teacher training day.
The workshop gains four quality control inspectors whether it likes it or not. Knives still getting made.

Stripey Sunday No two of these are ever the same, and that’s the whole point. The material comes from CWP in Finland: dy...
31/05/2026

Stripey Sunday

No two of these are ever the same, and that’s the whole point.
The material comes from CWP in Finland: dyed veneer compressed into a block, made largely for target rifle stocks, where it has to be light, dead stable and properly loud to look at. Gorgeous stuff.
Completely unusable as a knife handle as it arrives. So it goes north to Henry Lee in County Durham, who draws out every trace of air and moisture, forces in resin and cures it solid, until the block shrugs off water and grease for good.

The blanks are made for us specially. We have a few patterns. This is the one we can’t leave alone.
The colour order is decided by Excel’s RAND function, because nothing says master cutlers like a spreadsheet, which is why every handle lands differently and none of them can be repeated.

Shown here on The Classic, our European chef’s knife, sitting on a pouch cut from a green pigskin farrier’s chap and given a second life by Tiffany, our in-workshop saddler.

Only a few left. By enquiry, before they’re gone.

20/05/2026

When you decide to invest in a Savernake knife you’re not just buying a functional, utilitarian piece of kitchen equipment but rather a work of art designed to bring you joy every time you use it.

We make all our knives here in our workshop situated on the edge of the Savernake forest in Wiltshire, England. With over 40 individual steps involved in crafting them, each takes around 50 hours to make to our customers’ exact specifications.

As a small, independent knifemaker it’s simply not possible to welcome everyone interested in seeing how we make our blades to visit us in our workshop - so we decided to shoot a short film to illustrate the level of care and attention that goes into making every single one of our knives.

We hope you enjoy watching…

BBQ ‘26 - Six knives | one range | built for cooking outdoors.The line-up....10” Butcher’s Steak Knife A long, lean spec...
15/05/2026

BBQ ‘26 - Six knives | one range | built for cooking outdoors.

The line-up....

10” Butcher’s Steak Knife

A long, lean specialist for portioning and carving big cuts, raw or cooked. Weight in the nose, a profile that glides through brisket, picanha, tri-tip, sirloin, leg of lamb. The longer the cut, the more it earns its place.

Classic Cleaver

A heavy butcher’s cleaver built to split joints, section ribs, drop through cartilage, break down a primal. Sharp enough for clean slices when sharp is what you want, weighted enough to do real damage when damage is the point.

5” B***r

The trimming and breakdown knife. Pulling silver skin off a brisket, working a fat cap, deboning a shoulder, getting between ribs. Semi-rigid as standard: flexible enough to follow curves, stiff enough at the tip for tendons and close bone work.

Savernake Knife

The knife we make for ourselves. Prominent stop, gentle rock on the upper half, a lift at the tip. Good depth, useful for everything. Veg for the slaw, herbs for the marinade, garlic, chillies, citrus, fruit. The bridge between the meat knives and the kitchen.

Workhorse

The European chef’s knife in the range. Pronounced belly, lifted tip, deep enough for full knuckle clearance and long enough for a drawing slice. For portioning steaks before the grill, halving sausages, chopping for tacos and pulled pork.

Stout Yeoman

The small precision knife. Trimming, paring, garnish, dressing corn, splitting limes, opening a chilli, taking the cheek out of a mango. The smallest in the line-up and the one that does the fiddly work everything else is too big for.

The handles

Micarta isn’t fashionable. It isn’t romantic. What it has is a near-indifference to abuse. Soak it, scorch it, drag it through a marinade, leave it on a damp board, drop it on stone. It doesn’t care. That’s why it’s on every knife in the BBQ range. Cooking outdoors is hard on tools, and the right material isn’t always the prettiest. Micarta gets out of the way and lets you cook.

Now we just need the sunshine back….
🔥🔪🔥

FEATHER & SPICE… and all things nice! We are delighted to announce that Feather & Spice in Marlborough are stocking an e...
13/05/2026

FEATHER & SPICE… and all things nice!

We are delighted to announce that Feather & Spice in Marlborough are stocking an exclusive range of our knives.

If you are in the area is definitely worth a visit, an independent shop with a range of cookware and homeware that is genuinely well-chosen. It sits on one of England’s widest and most picturesque high streets, in a market town that is more than holding its own and one that we are incredibly lucky to have right on our doorstep.

Pop in, handle the knives, and see what you think.


One hundred years of Quo Vadis 🎉Quo Vadis - the grande dame of Dean Street, in Soho - turns one hundred this year. The o...
07/05/2026

One hundred years of Quo Vadis 🎉

Quo Vadis - the grande dame of Dean Street, in Soho - turns one hundred this year. The owner of this inestimable establishment, Sam Hart, asked us to mark the occasion, and so we have.

Sam’s Chef Proprietor at Quo Vadis is Jeremy Lee MBE and we’ve worked with him to make a set of four knives properly designed for the professional environment.

Hand-thinned, immaculate, made in the traditional flat-grind style which means substance and slicing performance in equal measure. It’s worth noting in particular (for those of you who like big things) that the 27cm Chef’s Knife is the largest main blade we’ve made in a long time.

The handles (and this is where it gets even more exciting) are all London Plane, taken from a single tree that came down in Soho Square in April 2022 - five minutes’ walk from the front door of Quo Vadis, and (briefly) famous for nearly taking out Paul McCartney’s offices.

All nine tonnes of trunk were donated by to a fantastic outfit that gives the city’s salvaged timber a second life rather than feeding it to the firewood pile. This set uses the very last of that tree’s boards.

“As pleasing in the hand as they are to the eye.”
- Jeremy Lee

Happy 100th birthday
🎈🔪🥳🔪🎉🔪🎂🔪🎁

Set of the week - The Burr Oak TrioWe were so lucky to get this commission for a set of beautiful British burr oak. The ...
01/05/2026

Set of the week - The Burr Oak Trio

We were so lucky to get this commission for a set of beautiful British burr oak.
The oak has been kiln-dried, stabilised and then infused with resin at 4 atmospheres to enhance durability, colour and grain, before being shaped and finished by hand, in total a process that takes our workshop team around a month.

We just love the unique voids, swirls and figure running through all the handles.

Made for Mark and now happily being used in North Yorkshire 🪵✨🤎

🔪Tom Aiken’s large Nakiri
🔪Extreme Slicer
🔪Agile Yeoman

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

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