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Browse the shopLooking for a knife that's sold out, unavailable, or something entirely your own? The commission process is a conversation — and the easiest way to start it is to design what you're after.
There is a click-to-build tool — find it on the design page. Pick a model, a steel, a handle material, a sheath. The tool shows you finished knives that look like what you're imagining, and when you're done you can send the design straight to the workshop.
But the commission itself is still a conversation. A menu can't read hand size, intent, or the fact that you'd rather wear it on the off-side. Materials look very different finished than they do in pictures, and we'll often suggest a steel or a grind that suits what you'll actually do with the knife better than your first instinct. The design tool exists so we share vocabulary when we talk — not to replace the talk.
Fifteen minutes on the phone, an email, or a visit to the showroom just outside Petworth — by appointment.
Knives we’ve built for clients. Past commissions aren’t for sale and we don’t make exact copies, but any of them can be the starting point for yours.
You’ll see it being made: photographs at three stages of the build, and a final one before it goes to the courier. If you’d like a closer hand, choosing the exact piece of burl, say, tell us at the start.
Rough grind
After heat treatment
Before finishingNine decisions make a knife. The design tool walks every one of them, visually — so if you'd rather see it than read it, start there and we'll pick up from your draft.
Start with the shape. Hunting, bushcraft, folding, kitchen, tactical — each model is designed for a specific use.
Stabilised woods, fossilised mammoth ivory, carbon fibre, Kirinite, Dichrolam, G10 — the piece we reach for depends on the knife and the owner.
Materials can be combined, too — pinstripes, liners, layered spacers — for something entirely your own.
The model usually dictates the ideal steel — but if you have a preference, tell us and we'll match it.
Our in-house stainless Damascus is RWL-34 and PMC27: high corrosion resistance, exceptional edge retention, and patterns you won't see anywhere else.
A Scandi grind cuts keener but is less robust; a micro bevel is more durable at the cost of a little sharpness off the stone.
It shapes how the blade behaves in cut and how you'll maintain it for the rest of its life.
Stainless, brass and copper as standard; mosaic and EDM pins for something more distinctive.
Pins can be engraved too — initials, a maker's mark, a small motif.
Every sheath is handmade in-house and moulded to the individual knife — leather in black or brown, custom colours on request, or Kydex with hybrid carry.
We'll talk through placement and draw so the finished piece sits and pulls the way it should.
Initials, family crests, lifelike species studies, bespoke artwork — laser-engraved in-house, directly into the steel.
Edge kits, strops, oils, cases — we'll ask about anything else at commission so the knife arrives ready for years of use.
Sheath-making is a craft of its own. Every Emberleaf sheath is made in-house and moulded to the individual knife — never off the rack. You'll choose the material and the carry, and we'll build it around the blade.
Meticulously handmade, hand-moulded to the individual knife. Every leather sheath we ship is made in-house.
Thermoplastic-moulded for a precise, retained fit. Designed around our hybrid mounting system so you can carry the knife the way you actually use it.
Before you brief us, it helps to have looked: the materials reference shows every handle material and Damascus pattern we work with, and the archive shows how raw material becomes a knife. Work in progress goes up on Instagram.
