Thank you for taking the time to browse through our product and service offering. We are confident that you will find something here to suit your tastes, your needs and your pocket.

TAC Knives South Africa was established as a full-time business in November 2008. Our aim is to offer our clients a range of high quality hand crafted, but still affordable, fixed-blade knives that are as useful as they are attractive. South Africa has a long and proud tradition of knife making, and many knife makers of international renown still produce their knives here. At TAC Knives we have committed ourselves to contributing to this tradition. The result, we believe, is a selection of knives that are as tough, as durable, and as adventurous as the people that will use them professionally or recreationally in Africa. To expand this tradition we also offer a knife making course to interested individuals.

Every TAC Knife is hand-made using only the best materials that are available to us:

• Our blades are manufactured from 12C27 Sandvik (which we recommend for our hunting knives) or N690 Bohler (which we recommend for our tactical/ survival knives). Each blade is individually heat treated in our workshop and then Rockwell certified. We usually run our blades between 58 and 60 RC. Blades can be given a bead blast; mirror polish or satin finish.

• For our handles, we offer a variety of natural materials many of which are only to be found in Southern Africa (natural materials are subject to availability and we recommend that you consider these in consultation with us when you select your next knife). For very hard use and tactical/ survival knives we will often recommend the use of MICARTA products. We also manufacture our own resin handles (that are just as tough as TUFNOL or MICARTA), which allows us to make up unique colours or colour combinations according to our client's requirements. Images of our home made resin cotton based handles will be available soon on our supplies page.
  

At TAC Knives we are proud to be able to cultivate a special relationship with our clients. We enjoy making knives and we look forward to exchanging ideas with you - whether it is to design a custom knife with you from the drawing board up or making modifications to our existing designs.

It bears pointing out that because each knife is made individually from start to finish by hand in our workshop, no two knives are exactly the same. Each knife, even if chosen from our catalogue, is well and truly unique.

And we stand behind our knives! We guarantee each knife against any material or manufacturing defects. If a knife should break during hard use we will replace it!  Please use our knives for its intended purpose.