All About Pocket Knives

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Many thanks. The Sheffield cutlers are all dying out. It was sitting on jockey type saddles without face masks grinding knives and ingesting the metal bits so these days it's much more difficult to get things made. I have just bought pieces from a the first operational fighter jet the Meteor but it ...

I am looking for a quality full tang Oyster knife blanks with guard. I am in the UK and have some creel boards fished out of the bottom of the North Sea from Scottish fisheries and want to put them to use. I also have a quantity of the Royal Navy teak kept for many years by the Navy as replacement d...

Being very interested in materials I have over the years accumulated some very interesting wood and metal. It annoys my wife having to accommodate large bits of historic metal and wood but that's life - 'I suppose'. It's fifty years since man landed on the moon and we have created a pocket knife whi...

Unfortunately the sniper plate was cracked round the bullet hole - so no knife with a bullet hole through the blade.

Circa 1870's batch of new straight razors found but some with what looks like Arabic engravings on the blade. They are by John & William Ragg of Sheffield. http://rasoir.uk/Pre_1900_Straight_Razors/pre_1900_straight_razors.html Hand ground even those with the same product name have little differ...

Unfortunately not. We had enough trouble with the steel. It was entirely hand cut and ground. Mind you we still might have the bit with the bullet hole. I will see. Having made the grips out of the Lee Enfield which of itself had a few problems if i suggest that a blade is made with a bullet hole in...

Many thanks for all your help. I am a complete incompetent when it comes to coping with the various rules re image posting. Each of the sgian dubhs had to be hand cut out of the metal as the lasers bounced off. Likewise the handles from the walnut of a rifle butt are all different due to the curves ...

After a long struggle we have created a sgian dubh with a blade derived from a sniper plate from the Western Front which has preserved the weathered pitted metal down the back edge of the blade. The grips are derived from the walnut of pre WW2 Lee Enfield rifle butts. Each one is different and uniqu...

We were down in Greenwich today. Finding the wood puts you touch with all manner of interesting people. We walk down the Thames past a very old Boat scrappage yard and you look in the yard through holes in the corrugated iron fence. They would never let us in and today the scrap yard was gone. Somew...

15th century oak on a Sheffield made bowie from planking in an old Yorkshire farmhouse. The harmonious tones in the wood make in difficult to photograph but are from an age around the time America was 'invented'.

Sorry for the slight delay in replying. Dating from around the date America was discovered by European explorers we now have 15th century oak incorporated into a Sheffield made Bowie. It's beautiful wood but not easy to photograph as it has an harmony of very similar tones. 15th century bowie handle...

As I type the roar of Spitfire engines from Spitfires flying once again out of Biggin Hill is filling the air. At price you can fly in one but for us underneath it's a reminder of the epic events which took place here in Kent. That's by way of an introduction to our location. Several of our knife ma...

We are down to our last few pieces of HMS Victory timber now. In the pipeline is a Sheffield made Bowie with 15th century oak grips. The oak is from a Yorkshire farmhouse. The Wars of Roses were raging around that area at that time. Tudor Rose bowie 200.jpg Getting more and more difficult to obtain ...

The first of our handmade folding knives with lambsfoot blades and mammoth ivory scales has been made. Each one is unique and this one displays deep rifts resulting from the thousands of years of weathering in the ice.

Things are getting increasingly difficult in Sheffield. Trevor Ablett has shut his workshop due to ill health and the ages of several other knife makers range from 80 to 90. The WW1 Somme centenary knife is now on the site and that has been made with the walnut from Lee Enfield rifle butts. We have ...

In our quest for new materials we have aquired some of the teak decking planking from the Royal Yacht HMY Britannia. The teak has been stored by the Royal Navy for sixty years and we have produced a small range of shaving brushes and safety razors with it. Tough teak with a remarkable provenance.

We have now obtained a quantity of the scarlet cloth made by the same mill that made the cloth for the tunics of the British infantry at the battle of Waterloo and of course also the Redcoats in our American colonies. We will be turning it into knife sheaths and draw string bags for our Waterloo kni...

That was quick. Sometimes takes weeks for the knives to arrive. I am currently trying to obtain the red cloth made by the same mill which made the cloth for the army for the battle of Waterloo. It's how the Redcoats got their name. It's to make sheaths for the commemorative knives for the Battle of ...

They are on there way to you. That wood has seen a lot of history and when you see the Magna Carta oak you will see it an amazing patina. The HMS Victory wood came with square shipbuilding nails still in the wood and of course the Victory is still a Royal Navy warship.

The Ankerwycke Yew which is thought to be at least 1400 years old is still alive at the location by the Thames where the Magna Carta was signed. Some put it's age at 2400 years old. It would unfortunately be a criminal offence to redeploy any part of it for knife scales even if bits dropped off. Nev...

The Magna Carta is thought to be the legal bases of the right to bear arms in America. This is a year with an amazing number of historic anniversaries in the UK. Amongst of collection of wood we have some ships timber from HMS Victory Nelson's Flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar. The 13th century oa...

The oak came from a roof beam reclaimed after the fire at York Minster Cathedral. It comes with a certificate of authenticity from the Minster and a letter on handmade paper describing the knife and it's making. I have very little of the wood and the knives are on http://www.sheffield-gb.com Given t...

The Magna Carta was signed 800 years ago. it contained the bases of much of the law that was ultimately enshrined in British and American law. We have acquired a small amount of 13th century oak and the oak has been utilized for knife grips for a Sheffield made folding knife in carbon steel with a s...

Greetings We are making a new range of traditional folding knives with knife scales made using historic wood from around the world. We have some of the deck planking from the Royal Yacht Britannia from when it was launched some fifty years ago. All our knives are carbon steel made in Sheffield UK an...