New Mexico-based artisanal brand known for customizing high-quality knives with exotic stone, fossil, and wood handles.
ORIGIN
United States
PRICE TIER
premium
SPECIALIZATION
MEN
Founded in 1978 by Bill Wirtel and John Iverson in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Santa Fe Stoneworks is a family-operated artisanal brand that merges the ancient craft of lapidary with the practical art of cutlery. Wirtel, whose grandfather was a stone cutter from Upper Bohemia, established the brand to apply traditional stone-cutting techniques to everyday objects. Operating out of a century-old adobe ranch house, the brand is celebrated for transforming standard pocket knives and kitchen cutlery into heirloom-quality pieces.