Did you know that many of our tools – especially the fancier ones that come in limited batches – are handmade in small family workshops? Very often that means the whole family working together, with the continuation of the business depending on one or more of the next generation being apprenticed and then – hopefully – gaining the necessary skills to take over, like their fathers and grandfathers before them.

Your father might not have taught you to forge carbon steel or laminate a blade, but no doubt he passed on something useful that qualifies him for a little fanfare on Father’s Day (15 June). Check out our Father’s Day gift edit for inspiration: