CUTTING-EDGE CREATIONS
Apr 12, 2019
4 minutes
By Jude Woodside
Photographs: Jude Woodside
Brent Sandow’s workshop is compact, ordered, and focused on producing knives. Much like its owner.
Brent is a fountain of knowledge on knife-making and his enthusiasm for the craft is infectious. It has been a lifetime passion for him that started while growing up in Cape Town, South Africa.
“It would have been in the mid ’70s when I walked into a gun store with my dad in Cape Town and I saw my first custom knives,” he says. “I thought, I’ve got to have a go at making this. I was a schoolkid in those days and I couldn’t afford to buy them.”
So Brent started to making them in his father’s workshop with his dad’s support
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