Bran's reputation is the result of rigorous testing across diverse environments — from the dense jungles of Central America to military operations in the Middle East.

A 100mm blade, 30mm wide, supporting a true Scandinavian grind. The choked-up guard sits behind the line of the cutting edge, increasing stability.

This is the original configuration of the Bran — the knife that established our bushcraft line and earned its following among instructors and serious practitioners.

Tested where it counts

The Bran’s reputation is the result of rigorous testing across diverse environments — from the dense jungles of Central America to military operations in the Middle East. It is a knife whose design decisions were made by use, not fashion: every line of it answers to something that happened in the field.

The geometry

A 100mm blade, 30mm wide, with a true Scandinavian grind — easy to maintain in the field, superb through wood. The choked-up guard sits behind the line of the cutting edge, increasing stability in fine work: the knife chokes up for carving control and powers through splits without the hand creeping forward. It is the full bushcraft syllabus in one blade — shelter, fire, food, and the thousand small makings between.

v1 and v2

Both configurations remain in the range. The v1 is the original pattern; commissioners with a history with the knife tend to stay loyal to it, and we see no reason to argue. Whichever you choose, it is the same steel, the same bench, and the same standards.

Built to specification

No Bran is pulled from a shelf. At commission you choose the steel — stainless RWL-34, PMC27 or AEB-L, carbon O1, or our in-house stainless Damascus, pattern-welded in Petworth from RWL-34 and PMC27 in patterns from Ladder to Odin’s Eye. Each has its own character; we will talk you through what suits the work you have in mind.

The handle is shaped to the blade from your choice of materials — stabilised woods and burls to fossilised mammoth ivory — and finished with standard or mosaic pins. Engraving is done in-house: initials, crests, and species studies fine enough to count the hairs.

The sheath

We make every sheath here, moulded precisely to the individual knife. Most Brans go out in leather — black, brown, or a colour of your choosing, with hand-tooling and engraved silver panels available for presentation pieces — though Kydex on our hybrid leather system is the right answer for hard, wet use.

Yours, on the record

No two Brans leave the workshop quite alike, and each one is treated accordingly: numbered, recorded in the ledger, warranted for life against manufacturing defects, and dispatched sharpened, papered and insured. It is the sort of record-keeping that matters on the day a knife becomes an inheritance.

When you are ready, design yours in the design tool or simply start the conversation — the finished piece always comes out of one.