Endeavour The name was a suggestion from a close friend in the community. It stands for the courage to venture into the unknown. Origins In 2019, we went looking for a skiving knife for our own use. The search led us to a blacksmith we still work closely with today. Commissioning just two knives felt like poor work to offer him, so we opened the order to our Discord community — which answered in numbers. Forty knives arrived, and we sat on the floor of a student apartment deciding what came next: we would learn to hand-sharpen at scale. The thin margins from those knives went straight into stones and sharpening supplies. Three years on, we have hand-sharpened more than a thousand beveled tools — skiving knives, blade punches, and everything between. It began with a little courage to venture into something new. Hollow Ground Bevel Profile The bevel is hollow-ground — its surface caves inward relative to a flat plane — and carries a 15° microbevel as the actual cutting edge. The geometry serves two ends: sharpening removes material only from a narrow band rather than the full bevel face, and the thinned profile minimises leather displacement through the cut. Mercury Chamfer The perimeter of the blade carries a gentle convex, hand ground and polished using a technique we developed, inspired by the spine on Japanese kitchen knives. Your fingers press against the blade constantly in use, and the rounded, polished edge keeps that contact comfortable through long sessions. Specifications Steel RWL34 Sharpening Ultra steep hollow grind, 15° micro bevel Geometry Single Bevel Blade Angle (Shallow) ~76° Blade Angle (Steep) ~60° Weight 120 grams Dimension 3.2 cm wide, 18.5 cm long .image-container { display: flex; flex-direction: column; gap: 20px; } .image-wrapper { width: 100%; } .image-wrapper img { width: 100%; height: auto; display: block; } @media (min-width: 768px) { .image-container { flex-direction: row; } .image-wrapper { width: calc(50% - 10px); } }
