Est. 2024 · Anna Bay, NSW
Two mates, one workshop, and a stubborn belief that a knife should outlast the person who bought it.
It started in a garage. It still feels like one.
How it started
It started the way a lot of good things do around here — two mates, too much time during COVID, and an idea that probably should've stayed on the back burner.
Andrew and I had always been into the outdoors. Hunting, fishing, camping — the usual. And like most blokes, we'd gone through our share of average knives. The ones that look good in the photo but can't hold an edge past the first job.
So we figured we'd have a crack at making our own.
The first few were rough. Really rough. But something clicked. The process of taking raw steel and turning it into a tool that could actually do the job — there's nothing else like it.
Where we are now
What started in a home garage is now a proper workshop operation. We've got a team, a build list that keeps us honest, and customers across Australia and around the world.
Every Thursday at 7pm AEST, we release new knives. Some are one-off pieces with unique handles that'll never be repeated. Some are restocks of our most popular models. They tend to sell out.
We also run a Built-to-Order program. You pick your knife, we build it, and it ships in about 6 weeks. It's how we do most of our volume — and it means you're getting a knife that was made after you ordered it, not pulled off a shelf.
How we make knives
Every Iron Gate knife starts as a piece of steel. The profile is cut out from our designs — shapes built from countless iterations until they're right.
We heat treat in a laboratory environment to get the most out of each steel, and run cryo treatments on the steels that benefit from it. It's not the fastest way. It's the right way.
All of our handles are handmade, start to finish. No shortcuts. We use a mix of steels depending on the model — N690, AEB-L, Elmax, MagnaCut, 1084, Damascus, 12C27. Each one chosen for the job the knife needs to do.
Every knife ships with a custom Kydex sheath and our lifetime guarantee. Because if we're not willing to back it forever, we shouldn't be selling it.
2024
Year founded
4
Full-time knifemakers
Anna Bay
Home workshop
Lifetime
Backing on every knife
The team
Small team. No middlemen. The crew behind every Iron Gate knife.
Co-Founder
Has ADHD and tends to go all in when he wants to do something. The type to jump without checking the depth of the water — and somehow it keeps working out. When he's not covered in grinding dust, he's fishing, hunting, or cooking something that took way too long.
Co-Founder
Pastor-slash-teacher turned knifemaker. Nobody saw that career pivot coming, least of all him. Loves a tidy workshop — which is a daily battle when you work next to Izac. It's a great combo, honestly.
Workshop
Bow hunter, young father, and the most enthusiastic bloke in the shed — every single day. Callum loves building and brings an energy that's hard to match. If your knife was finished recently, he probably had his hands on it.
Workshop
Hits the weights, rolls jiu-jitsu, and serves in the Army Reserves. Keeps a tourniquet on him at all times and, by his own admission, might be a bit too keen to use it. On the grinders, that same intensity goes into every knife.
Cinematographer
Surfer, keen spearo, and the bloke behind the lens. Better known as the Jimmy Juice. He films the builds, the drops, and whatever chaos unfolds in the shed, then turns it into something worth watching. Lives to make a skit and get a laugh out of everyone.
What we believe
The new workshop
We're building a new shed with 8× the capacity of our current setup. Same property. Same address. Same hands on every knife.
More space means more knives, bigger drops, and shorter wait times on Built-to-Order. The process doesn't change. Just the scale.
Join the early access list. Thursday drop alerts, workshop updates, and first pick on new releases.
