Compact Chef

Savernake Knives

£275

15cm Chef s Knife Why choose this knife The smallest knife we make that genuinely functions as a chef s knife: it has the rock, the knuckle clearance, and the heel depth that smaller knives usually sacrifice, built from the bones of the Agile Yeoman with those shortcomings fixed for those who want to work it hard on a board. Dimensions Blade 15.5cm. Overall 28.1cm. Depth 4cm. Weight 116g. The Story The Compact Chef started life as a bespoke commission from someone who liked smaller knives but was frustrated by what they could not do. We took the Agile Yeoman, added roughly a centimetre of dept

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Where this comes from

The part other shops don't tell you. Three separate questions, kept separate on purpose, each with its source.

UK company
Registered at Companies House as Savernake Knives Limited, number 10826561. Checked 2026-08-29.
Means the business is a British legal entity, not a British-sounding name owned elsewhere. It says nothing about where anything is made.
UK operations
Stated by the company: "our workshop is a converted 1854 sawmill in Wiltshire" Source.
Means people employed here, or premises they actually work from. We keep this separate from the company badge because a registered office can be an accountant's spare room, and a company can be registered in Britain while everything it does happens somewhere else. Where we have not looked, we say so rather than assuming.
British-owned
No majority shareholding traced outside the UK. Companies House.
Read from the register of people with significant control, following the chain of holding companies. It does not gate anything: a firm can be made here and owned elsewhere, and that is worth telling you rather than hiding.
Where it is made
The maker doesn't say, so neither do we.
This is about the individual product, not the company. A British firm can sell things made abroad, which is normal and not a criticism. We would rather tell you which is which than average them into a score.