Cleavers & Butcher Knives

Serious weight, serious edge. Hand forged cleavers, breaking knives and butcher blades for people who process their own meat at home, at the shop or at camp. Heavy through the spine, balanced forward, and sharp enough to make the work easy.

A cleaver does its cutting with mass, so the blade is left thick and the tang runs full width through the handle. Breaking and butcher knives are ground thinner and longer, for the parts of the job where you are separating rather than splitting.

Damascus and 1095 high carbon steel, with handles in rosewood, olive wood, horn and bone. For the finer work that follows, see fillet and boning knives. Outfitting a whole shop, see wholesale and bulk orders.