Rutland lad
Well-Known Member
Members - following lots of discussion and reading about those of you with custom knives, I decided a while back that this was a rabbit hole I definitely was not going to dive down. Then, I went to the Stalking Show with one of my stalking friends who happens to be a Gamekeeper. He was in need of anew knife, so many stalls were visited and conversation and specifications talked about (to those custom knife makers who actually spoke to us) and I realised I did actually want a custom knife to complement my stalking set up. And I was also fed up with the Mora needing constant sharpening.
The show revealed to us a number of things about the custom knife market, and we left without placing an order with any of the dealers there.
I’ve been watching a number of you showing off Stuart Mitchell knives, and so the two of us slogged up to Sheffield to meet Stuart and discuss our needs and wants.
What a gent. He couldn’t have been more helpful. We spent over two hours in the workshop discussing profiles and looking at what he had available and what he could actually make us ‘bespoke’. He came up with some ideas we’d not thought of, and it never felt he was trying to push his ideas onto us, more like he was explaining his experience and then we were combining that with our plans.
At the end, a deal was done for two knives to our specifications. These will be working knives rather than cabinet queens, much as some of the handles etc were fantastic, a knife owned by a Gamekeeper has to be first and foremost a working tool.
I will update you as the project comes together, but I cannot recommend Stuart highly enough at this point and I’m very confident the end result will be exactly what we want.
The show revealed to us a number of things about the custom knife market, and we left without placing an order with any of the dealers there.
I’ve been watching a number of you showing off Stuart Mitchell knives, and so the two of us slogged up to Sheffield to meet Stuart and discuss our needs and wants.
What a gent. He couldn’t have been more helpful. We spent over two hours in the workshop discussing profiles and looking at what he had available and what he could actually make us ‘bespoke’. He came up with some ideas we’d not thought of, and it never felt he was trying to push his ideas onto us, more like he was explaining his experience and then we were combining that with our plans.
At the end, a deal was done for two knives to our specifications. These will be working knives rather than cabinet queens, much as some of the handles etc were fantastic, a knife owned by a Gamekeeper has to be first and foremost a working tool.
I will update you as the project comes together, but I cannot recommend Stuart highly enough at this point and I’m very confident the end result will be exactly what we want.
