Manufacturing

How an instrument gets made

Ten stages between bar stock and a packed carton. Nothing moves to the next stage until the previous one checks out.

Steel bar and strip is received against specification and set aside by grade before anything is cut.

Blanks are drop-forged or formed so the grain follows the shape of the finished instrument.

Profiles, box joints, screw holes and serrations are machined to the drawing.

Blades, jaws and working faces are ground to the pattern and checked against the master sample.

Instruments are hardened and tempered so the working edge holds without becoming brittle.

Satin, mirror or matte finishes are applied by hand, then passivated.

Joints are set, tension adjusted, and the action is opened and closed until it runs clean.

Dimensions, action, edge and finish are checked piece by piece.

Instruments are packed to the customer’s marking and labelling requirements.

Documents are prepared and the consignment is handed to the agreed forwarder.

Custom work

Made to your drawing

A drawing, a photograph, a competitor code or a physical sample — any of these is enough to start.

We produce a sample for approval before a production run begins, so the pattern is agreed in steel, not on paper.

Private-label laser marking, your carton and your labelling for export shipments.