It started
with a few
for mates.

No grand plan. Just a bloke making a few for his mates and family. Three years on, a small crew in Anna Bay make pieces built to be used every day and handed down.

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Free resharpening & repairs for life
Australian made in Anna Bay, NSW
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From Izac

Why we make things the slow way.

G'day,

I never set out to start a company. I started making a few for mates and family because I couldn't find anything I actually wanted to own. Something that felt right in the hand, looked like it belonged to someone, and wasn't going to end up in the bin in five years.

Word got around. More people asked. In 2023 it became Iron Gate, and three years on there's a small crew of us in a workshop in Anna Bay, on the coast in Port Stephens.

We still do it the way we started. Proper steel. Handles in Aussie timbers, antler and TruStone, so no two are quite the same. Every piece is hand finished here and checked before it goes out the door. Then we put your name on it, free, because once something has a name on it, it's an heirloom worth keeping.

I'll be straight with you: what we make isn't cheap. It's priced for what goes into it, and for the fact that we'll look after it for the rest of your life. Send it back any time for a sharpen or a fix and we'll sort it out.

The best part of this job is the photos people send us. A Sunday roast. The first dinner in a new house. A dad carving at Christmas with something that'll one day be his son's. That's what we're building. Not more stuff. Things that get passed on.

Thanks for having a look. If you've got a question, flick us a message. A real person in the workshop will answer it.

Iron sharpens iron.

Izac Founder, Iron Gate · Anna Bay, NSW

P.S. Every piece we make carries free resharpening and repairs for life. You just cover the postage back to us. No receipt needed.

See the kitchen range

Three years in the shed

The shed, the crew,
the work.

Two makers working at grinders inside a timber-lined shed — Same bench, every day

A maker in a cap works on a handle at his workbench — Fitting the handle

Macro of a curly maple handle with tiger-stripe grain and a brass pin — No two handles alike

Two hands hold a bare steel blank flat to a grinding belt in low light — At the grinder

Hands sanding a handle on a small sanding wheel in a dim workshop — Shaped until it sits right

Aerial view of coastal bushland, a long beach and sand dunes at Anna Bay — Home: Anna Bay, NSW

What we won't budge on

Five things we
don't compromise on.

01
Make it to outlast you.
A piece should outlast the person who bought it. That's the whole idea, and it's why we build the way we do.
02
Put a name on it.
Free engraving on every piece. Once it has a name on it, it stops being a tool and starts being an heirloom.
03
Back it for life.
Free resharpening, repairs and maintenance, as many times as you like. No receipt, no fine print games.
04
Use the good stuff.
Proper steel and real timber cost more. Quality ain't cheap, and cheap ain't quality, so we'd rather pay it than cut the corner.
05
Look after your mates.
Iron sharpens iron. We have a showroom and meet our customers in person every day to talk about cooking, the outdoors, knives and more.