Our makers

Nantes, France

Evan Antzenberger

Antzenberger Knives

French blacksmith Evan Antzenberger has been forging since his teens, developing his craft through early training under Master Thierry Peyranne before turning his attention fully toward culinary knives. His work moves...

Washington, USA

Dan Bidinger

Bidinger Knives

Dan Bidinger works from Washington State, producing refined, performance-driven kitchen knives with a strong focus on balance, geometry, and finish. Best known for his B-grind geometry, his knives are designed to move...

Hereford, England

Joel Black

Joel Black Knives

Joel Black combines nearly two decades in professional kitchens with formal blacksmithing training to produce handmade knives grounded equally in cooking and forging. Working from Hereford in the UK, he produces honya...

United Kingdom

Korben Bloomfield

KWB Knives

Korben Bloomfield of KWB Knives has built a reputation around disciplined craftsmanship, controlled geometry, and an uncompromising focus on fundamentals. Working from Kent, he approaches forging, heat treatment, and ...

Svendborg, Denmark

Karl Broch Jacobsen

Broch Blades

Karl Broch Jacobsen of Broch Blades is part of a new generation of European makers bringing serious technical maturity to contemporary kitchen knives at a remarkably young age. Working from Denmark, he produces Japane...

Rivesaltes, France

Harbeer Chahal

HSC/// Knives

Harbeer Chahal of HSC/// Knives combines an engineering background, collector sensibility, and ABS-influenced training into a body of work centred on long-term performance and durability. Forged in southern France usi...

Auckland, New Zealand

Skye Eilers

Skye Eilers Knives

Skye Eilers represents a new generation of New Zealand bladesmiths bringing strong ergonomics, clean geometry, and careful finishing into contemporary kitchen knives. His work combines premium Japanese steels, refined...

Paltin Monastery, Petru Vodă, Romania

Toma Fenes

Fenes Knives

Toma Fenes brings together blacksmithing, woodworking, sculpture, historical craft, and culinary culture into one of the most individual collections within Modern Cooking. Working from Romania using largely traditiona...

Czech Republic

Dominik Filip

Merion Forge

Dominik Filip of Merion Forge brings together formal blacksmith training, artistic metalwork, and Japanese-influenced finishing techniques into a distinct contemporary maker language. His knives are known for stone-fi...

Toulouse, France

Milan Gravier

Le Marteau et l'Enclume

Milan Gravier of Le Marteau et l'Enclume approaches knifemaking with the patience and restraint of someone deeply invested in process rather than spectacle. Forged in Toulouse using Japanese-influenced techniques ...

Zurich, Switzerland

Marco Guldimann

Guldimann Knives

Marco Guldimann combines professional kitchen experience with serious metallurgical fluency, producing highly technical kitchen knives from his workshop outside Zurich. As one of the founding contributors behind Apex ...

Kinsale, Ireland

Erik Gullikson

Gullikson Knives

Erik Gullikson approaches knifemaking with the instincts of a lifelong artist, producing blades that are expressive, highly individual, and deeply rooted in performance. Based in Kinsale, Ireland, his work often begin...

Gratwein, Austria

Tobias Hangler

Messerschmiede Hangler

Tobias Hangler stands among the most technically fluent makers in contemporary European bladesmithing, combining professional metallurgy with artisan blacksmithing from his workshop in Austria. A founding contributor ...

West Clare, Ireland

Jelle Hazenberg

Hazenberg Knives

Jelle Hazenberg produces highly refined kitchen knives from the Atlantic coast of Ireland, drawing on his background in professional kitchens to shape every aspect of the work. His knives are defined by refined convex...

Sösdala, Sweden

Tobias Heldqvist

T.Heldqvist Smidesverkstad

Tobias Heldqvist produces highly refined kitchen knives from Sweden, combining formal blacksmithing, fabrication experience, and Japanese influence into a distinctly Scandinavian maker language. His work is characteri...

Garsten, Austria

Martin Huber

Messerschmied Huber

Martin Huber works from Austria with a background shaped by family blacksmithing, machining, and engineering traditions. His knives are built around durability, fit and finish, and practical cutting performance before...

Kyrkhult, Sweden

Jonas Johnsson

Isasmedjan

Jonas Johnsson of Isasmedjan has developed one of the most recognisable and technically broad practices in modern European bladesmithing. Working from southern Sweden, he moves fluently across honyaki, wrought iron sa...

Vienna, Austria

Benjamin Kamon

Kamon Knives

Benjamin Kamon is an Austrian bladesmith and founder of Kamon Knives, producing high-performance, handcrafted kitchen knives defined by precision engineering and bold industrial design. With a background in machining ...

Kraków, Poland

Karol Karyś

made by Karyś

Karol Karyś approaches kitchen knives through the lens of industrial design, drawing heavily on brutalist architecture, exposed structure, and raw material honesty. Forged in Kraków, his knives often favour mono steel...

Annecy, France

Antoine Kniamen

Adonis Forged Arts

Antoine Kniamen forges under the Adonis Forged Arts name near Annecy in eastern France, producing knives that balance sculptural identity with serious cutting performance. Working alone from raw steel to finished edge...

The Netherlands

Jeroen Knippenberg

Knippenberg Knives

Jeroen Knippenberg brings together engineering, metallurgy, and artisan craft into a highly technical approach to kitchen knives. Working in the Netherlands with a background in heat and surface treatment technologies...

Seewalchen, Austria

Simon Krichbaum

Krichbaum Knives

Simon Krichbaum produces contemporary Austrian kitchen knives that combine Japanese-inspired geometry with a restrained, highly modern design language. After training under Martin Huber, he developed a practice centre...

Kraków, Poland

Michał Lipiński

KOVARES

Michał Lipiński of KOVARES combines artistic metalwork and industrial design into kitchen knives that are visually distinctive while remaining strongly performance led. Working from Kraków, he develops thin convex geo...

Sheffield, England

Simon Maillet

Maillet Knives

Simon Maillet approaches kitchen knives with the practical instincts of a former professional chef and the discipline of a highly skilled craftsman. Working within Sheffield's historic steelmaking culture, he prod...

Susaki, Japan

Naohito Myojin

Myojinriki Seisakusho / Tetsujin

Naohito Myojin is widely regarded as one of Japan's leading master sharpeners, producing extraordinarily refined bevels and finishing through his workshop in Kōchi Prefecture. After more than a decade apprenticing...

Hesse, Germany

Oliver Märtens

Oel

Oliver Märtens of Oel brings together German machining precision, Bauhaus-inspired restraint, and highly refined hand craftsmanship into one of the most recognisable contemporary knife languages in Europe. Forged and ...

Austria

Bernhard Noitz

Aequilibrium Bladeworks

Bernhard Noitz of Aequilibrium Bladeworks produces kitchen knives with a quiet, performance-led clarity shaped by years of self-directed experimentation and refinement. His work focuses on the balance between geometry...

Bristol, UK

Konstantinos Noulis

Nouko Knives

Konstantinos Noulis of Nouko Knives produces handmade kitchen knives from Bristol with a strong focus on balance, durability, and practical use. His work combines thoughtful geometry, clean finishing, and carefully ch...

Sydney, Australia

James Oatley

Oatley Knives

James Oatley has become one of the most recognisable names in contemporary Australian bladesmithing, producing kitchen knives that combine striking visual identity with uncompromising cutting performance. Working from...

Grenoble, France

Guirec Péron

Péron Knives

Working from the French Alps near Grenoble, Guirec Péron has built a reputation around precise, Japanese-influenced kitchen knives with a strong focus on honyaki and stone-finished geometry. His work is restrained and...

Przyszowa, Poland

Leszek Sikoń

Leszek Sikoń Knives

Leszek Sikoń brings together artistic metalwork and high-level bladesmithing into knives that sit comfortably between sculpture and kitchen tool. His work often features forged san-mai, go-mai, and damascus constructi...

Croatia

Tomislav Sokač

Radiona Breg

Tomislav Sokač of Radiona Breg draws on a lifetime around machining, welding, and forging to produce kitchen knives with a distinctly Croatian workshop character. Influenced by Japanese bladesmithing but grounded in f...

Örebro, Sweden

Fredrik Spåre

Spåre Knives

Fredrik Spåre produces kitchen knives from Örebro, Sweden, with an unusually complete in-house process spanning forging, grinding, sharpening, and handle construction. Working primarily with Swedish steels and locally...

Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada

Jesse Thompson

Nordquist Designs

Jesse Thompson builds knives under the Nordquist Designs name in Kelowna, British Columbia. Trained in Fine Art at NSCAD University, he came to knifemaking through an interdisciplinary craft background spanning silver...

Sydney, Australia

Brook Turner

Brook Turner Blades

Brook Turner is a Sydney-based bladesmith whose work reflects a restrained, thoughtful approach to handmade kitchen knives. Working across mono steel and laminated constructions, he combines clean geometry, subtle for...

Maastricht, Netherlands

Timo Verschuren

Hardent Knives

Timo Verschuren is a knifemaker from Maastricht, in the south of the Netherlands, working under the name Hardent. He forged, ground, and sold his first knife at thirteen, and by his late teens had turned a childhood f...

Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany

Derrick Wulf

Wulf Knives

Derrick Wulf is an American-born bladesmith based in Bavaria whose work reflects more than two decades of forging experience across culinary and outdoor knives. Using high-carbon steels, forged damascus, and san-mai c...