Crescent

Savernake Knives

£495

The lightest of the six, with the longest sweep. The Crescent is named for the line of its edge: a long, sweeping curve that rewards a drawing cut. At 11.5cm it carries real reach, yet at 130g it is the lightest knife in the collection. We have been able to set cloth into a handle for years, and had been waiting for the right reason to use it. Meeting Massy-Birch, bespoke tweed tailors working from the Devon countryside since 2012, settled the question in about five minutes: their cloth, our knives, a collaboration as obvious as the nose on your face. The Tweed Collection is the result: six ou

Savernake Knives's own words, read from their page.

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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.