Rushbrooke Knife Company

Rushbrooke Knife Company Quality tools for the modern Outdoorsman.

04/06/2026

TekLok overview - for everyone receiving their new knives today.

Thanks for your support!

The first Rushbrooke website release is now behind us.To everybody who managed to secure a knife, thank you. To those wh...
03/06/2026

The first Rushbrooke website release is now behind us.

To everybody who managed to secure a knife, thank you. To those who missed out, I appreciate the support all the same. We’re still limited in how many knives we can produce while building the company properly, and truthfully I didn’t expect them to go quite as quickly as they did.

Rushbrooke was never started simply to sell knives.

The idea was straightforward: build practical hunting knives here in England, designed by somebody who actually uses them in the field.

For years, British hunters and outdoorsmen have relied on equipment from overseas. A lot of it is adequate. I’ve used plenty of it myself. But I also believe Britain deserves brands of its own - companies building tools for our fields, our traditions, and the way we actually use them.

I’ve spent years making custom knives, and I wanted to take that same experience and put it into working tools people could actually carry and use every season without treating them like collector’s pieces.

That became Rushbrooke.

Everything we make is built around practical use. Knives designed to be carried, used hard, sharpened easily, and relied upon season after season.

No gimmicks. No pretending they’re something they’re not.

Just honest tools, made here in England by an actual knife maker.

The response to these first releases, both at The Stalking Show and online this weekend, has been a huge encouragement. More than anything, it’s shown me there are still plenty of people who value good design, practical equipment, and products made properly by people who stand behind them.

We’re still right at the beginning.

The Field and Pack Knives are only the first step, and there’s a lot more planned for the future.

If you missed out this time, please stick around.

More knives are already in the works.

Marc Zabroski

Founder

RUSHBROOKE KNIFE COMPANY

My personal learning curve since beginning the journey with Rushbrooke Knife Company has been huge, and if anything I’m ...
30/05/2026

My personal learning curve since beginning the journey with Rushbrooke Knife Company has been huge, and if anything I’m now only more aware of how much further we still have to go.

Initially, I had rather naïvely assumed we’d work closely with a number of local companies, outsourcing some of the production tasks until a time they could gradually be brought in-house, once both financially and skill viable. It quickly became clear that this wasn’t going to be the case. Small-scale manufacturing leaves little room for hand-holding, and companies with the capability to help are often too busy to work with small businesses.

Having originally set out with the intention of bringing in outside help for CAD/CAM and CNC machining, a few long dead ends later I eventually made the decision to just learn it myself, which in hindsight would probably have saved a fair bit of time had I accepted that reality sooner.

Now, whilst we’re two years behind the original schedule, we’re also a year ahead of where we expected to be with our in-house capabilities. At present, the only part of the process we still outsource is laser cutting the steel blanks, which takes place two miles down the road.

Turns out building things properly rarely follows the quickest route.

— Marc

29/05/2026

They’re almost here.

Website drop 001 / Sunday / 1900hrs

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Small batches. Big expectations.WEBSITE DROP #001 // MAY 31 / 1900hrs
10/05/2026

Small batches. Big expectations.

WEBSITE DROP #001 // MAY 31 / 1900hrs

With fallow safe for another season, attention turns to muntjac, who are afforded no such respite.
08/05/2026

With fallow safe for another season, attention turns to muntjac, who are afforded no such respite.

Late April.Cool evening air, heavy with the scent of blooming rapeseed - punctuated by the distant call of a cuckoo, and...
25/04/2026

Late April.

Cool evening air, heavy with the scent of blooming rapeseed - punctuated by the distant call of a cuckoo, and the sporadic boom of a bird scarer.

The muntjac take no notice of either.

The weekend just gone marked our first step out of the workshop and into the open with Rushbrooke Knife Company.Three ye...
17/04/2026

The weekend just gone marked our first step out of the workshop and into the open with Rushbrooke Knife Company.

Three years of work, mostly done in isolation, brought into a hall full of people who understand it.

The Stalking Show has become more than just a show. It’s a place where people who spend most of their time alone in the woods can stand shoulder to shoulder with peers and talk freely. That matters.

We brought a small run of knives with us - I thought we had enough.

They were all gone by lunchtime on the first day. Not expected, but definitely not something we take as a finish line either. If anything, it sharpens the focus. We need to make more, and we need to do it right.

Thank you to everyone who came to see us.

Those who bought a knife, and those who couldn’t but took the time to stop, talk, and offer their support. Both matter. This company will be built on those conversations as much as the product itself.

We’ve come away with a clear direction. Back to the workshop, and work harder.

Our first website release is set for 31st May, with both the Field and Pack knives available.

If the show was the introduction, this is the next step. There is a long road ahead. That is the point.

Thank you for being part of the beginning.

— Marc

We don’t outsource.We outwork.Rushbrooke is being built the same way our tools are built - piece by piece, in our own wo...
01/03/2026

We don’t outsource.
We outwork.

Rushbrooke is being built the same way our tools are built - piece by piece, in our own workshop.

When we need a machine, we assemble it.
When we need oak, we mill it.
When we lack a skill, we acquire it.

Capability isn’t bought.
It’s earned.

Cat & Mouse in the spruce and fir.We don’t chase, we outwit.
19/02/2026

Cat & Mouse in the spruce and fir.

We don’t chase, we outwit.

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The Old Stables, Rushbrooke
Bury St. Edmunds
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