MKNIVES

Let me present myself: I am Sander Miesse, a 24 years young, ambitious and passionate knife maker. I am Belgian, but I look kind of Spanish. Next to knives, I like to hang upside down on climbing walls and I enjoy making landscape - and product pictures. Since I could walk and talk, I went to the woods with my little brother Simon and made weapons out of all the things I could find laying around. He was so happy every time I made him something customised that I will always remember the joy I felt running through my body. My parents didn’t like us playing with 'big-boy' weapons so as quickly as it started out, it ended. However, I couldn't stop thinking about it and the ideas kept coming. So when I was finally old enough, I decided to start studying Mechanics, where I learned how to make all sorts of things out of metal. I only had the opportunity to make knives, starting from the age of 20. After spending hours on the internet scrolling through knife-pages, watching tons of Youtube videos and a journey to Japan to get a glimp of the real culture of knife making, I found out that the Japanese kitchen knives were very inspiring to me, so I decided to follow that path and try to create one of my own. I started designing packaging for better presentation, started tweaking out my knives by making them lighter, thinner, more durable and efficient. I spend all the money I have earned in the years of working as a student on buying myself some little machinery to provide the best!