Made in the USA. Not “designed in”. Made.
No overseas factory. No mystery supplier. No sticker on somebody else’s steel. We forge our own metal, shape it, finish it and inspect it — American hands, start to finish.
A small shop, a lot of nerve
Black Mamba Knives began in 2009 on the quiet outskirts of Chicago, in a workshop that could barely hold the tools we owned. Passion, raw skill and not much else.
As the designs multiplied, the equipment got heavier and the space ran out. One move turned into another. Each relocation marked a step up: a tiny workshop became a properly equipped manufacturing facility, and today that facility sits in Memphis, Tennessee, turning out hundreds of knives a month — every one handmade, every one American-born.
Motorcycles, jewellery, and a biker’s boot
We built custom motorcycles
Fabrication, tolerance, finish. If a part looked wrong, it was wrong. That habit never left.
We made fine jewellery
A trade where a fraction of a millimetre is visible to the naked eye. Perfection was not optional — it was the only setting.
Then came the request that started everything: bikers wanted a reliable everyday carry knife that would sit properly inside a boot. One idea became a dozen. A dozen became a collection. Before long the collection had a name.
From boot knife to 490+ models
- Hunting knives
- Skinning & gut hook
- Bowies
- Balisong butterfly
- Folding pocket knives
- Laguiole
- Chef & kitchen
- Swords
- Axes & tomahawks
Each one shaped by skill, tradition and an obsessive amount of attention to detail.
We forge our own metal
At the heart of this shop is metallurgy — not assembly. Forges, precision lathes and heavy hammers working together to take raw material all the way to a finished blade.
Our own billets
Damascus patterns are forged here, not bought in by the sheet.
Complex customs, no drama
Because we control the whole process, difficult one-off projects are a normal Tuesday.
200–400 knife runs
We have delivered corporate orders at that scale with the same care given to a single blade.
This is our story. This is our craft.
This is Black Mamba Knives.
From that first spark near Chicago to the shop floor in Memphis, one thing never changed: American-made knives that bring pride and lasting value to the people who carry them.