The Ibara is probably one of our most popular legacy models simply because of the big name attached to it, none other than the indomitable Mr Craig Douglas. In 2019 a very unexpected DM was sent to us. It’s not every day you get contacted by someone like Craig who has been a force in […]
Earlier this week, on our Knife Makers, and founder of Ironside Edge Works, Gavin Coleman appeared on Wim Demere’s Podcast. Wm has been a presence in the self defence and martial arts community for decades and to be invited onto hisPodcast to chat about our knives, knife making in general, self defence and South Africa […]
In 2023 we decided we would like to not only put our knives in the hands of experienced people to get their feed back, especially as we expand our own horizon’s and begin developing tools which don’t fit our own personal methodologies. Enter Thomas Holtmann of Bladecraft Method, the first ever Ironside Edge Works Sponsored […]
By Gavin Coleman Polarising as this opinion may be, few may realise that Ironside Edge Works was born in an attempt to answer this very question. In 2016 while journeying with my brother Schalk Holloway on our quest to answer some questions we had surrounding edge and point use in self defence, we exposed ourselves […]
On May 4th 2023 Ironside Edge Works was incorporated as a registered US Business in the great state of Wyoming! This is a very big deal for us. The trials of the last 5 months have been the most stressful of our lives, forcing us to decide whether we would have to give up on […]