Exceptional blade flexibility allows it to contour closely to bones and delicate areas, ensuring smooth, clean cuts with minimal waste.

The ergonomic handle ensures a secure, comfortable grip, even in wet or slippery conditions — a trusted companion in rugged and unpredictable environments.

The Maturin is the boundary-crosser in the range — a 7″ blade equally at home breaking down game in the larder, filleting the day’s catch on a quay, or working through fish and fowl at the kitchen bench.

The flexible blade

What defines it is flex. The long, slender blade bends to follow bone and contour closely through delicate areas, taking smooth, clean cuts with minimal waste — the quality fishmongers and game dealers prize, built to a standard they rarely see. Along a salmon’s spine or over a deer’s ribcage, the blade stays in contact where a stiff edge would bridge and tear.

Wet-hands handle

The ergonomic handle is shaped to stay secure when everything is wet, cold and slippery — on the open sea or at the sink. There is no pretence about where this knife lives: it earns its keep in conditions that ruin lesser tools, and it is finished to the same standard as everything else on the bench because we do not see why a working filleting knife should be ugly.

One blade, three rooms

Field, boat, kitchen — the Maturin refuses to stay in one. Game dealers use it for whole carcass work; anglers for everything from mackerel to pike; cooks discover it does Christmas better than any knife they own. If your year involves fish and game in any combination, it may be the most-used blade you ever commission.

The steel is yours to choose

Most Maturins leave the bench in one of our working stainless steels: RWL-34, a high-chromium stainless with excellent edge retention and corrosion resistance; PMC27, a powder-metallurgy steel with a fine grain that takes a keen edge and asks very little maintenance; or AEB-L, the razor-blade stainless whose fine carbides give a very keen edge with good toughness. Traditionalists can have O1 tool steel — a carbon steel that sharpens to an exceptionally fine edge and rewards a little oil and attention.

For something quietly spectacular, we pattern-weld our own stainless Damascus in-house from RWL-34 and PMC27 — Vinland, Gysinge, Ladder, Odin’s Eye, Thor and a dozen other patterns, each combining high corrosion resistance with exceptional edge retention. On a Maturin, Damascus turns a working tool into an heirloom without costing it a day’s work.

The sheath is part of the knife

Every sheath is handmade in-house and moulded to the individual knife it will carry — not to the pattern, to the knife. Leather comes in classic black or brown, or a custom colour; hand-tooled work is available, up to and including engraved silver panels. For those who work in all weathers, Kydex is offered on our hybrid leather carry system.

Numbered, recorded, guaranteed

Every Maturin is numbered and entered in the workshop ledger — steel, handle, date, owner — and carries a lifetime warranty against manufacturing defects. It arrives sharpened and papered, sent signed-for and insured. Decades from now, the number on the blade will still tell its story.

Commissions start with a conversation, or with a design: the design tool lets you set out the steel, handle, pins, engraving and sheath, and send the draft straight to the bench.