Our focus is to create unique knives of optimum performance in an old world style. Tim made and sold his first knives in 1974 and became a full time professional in 1992. Marian has since joined in to make our knifemaking a team effort. Our specialty is old fashioned edged weaponry. Each knife is handmade one at a time to our interpretations of history and culture. We work within traditional lines without reproducing existing artifacts. In order to successfully follow our vision we must work on speculation and can not accept custom orders. We offer our work on an immediate delivery basis. One at a time as available.

Our knives are hand forged using natural charcoal as fuel. We feel forging with natural charcoal is inherently kinder to high carbon steels compared to gas and coal burning forges. We sense that high carbon steel should be finessed into shape gently to keep internal stress in the alloy's structure minimized. Many hours are spent forging each blade to shape slowly and methodically to keep the grain size of the steel fine. Our heat treatment process is very thorough and we go to great lengths to keep homogenous structures into zones of selective tempering for a stiff springy spine and a hard sharp edge. For us, knifemaking is the art of blending both function and form and we enjoy the exploration of freedom and discipline it provides. We strive to create knives with the look of a relic and the function of tactical progress. Low tech, high quality and as honest as we know how to make them.